[syslinux] global APPEND directive

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 02/11/2013 05:23 AM, Ady wrote:
>
> I am more confused now, because the behavior of the global APPEND
> directive seems inconsistent between a cfg file and the command
> prompt.
>
> In a cfg file, there are multiple ways to override the global append.
> In the command prompt, there seems to be no way at all to override
> it.
>

That's correct.

Global APPEND was a feature copied for LILO, and by and large it was a 
mistake.  If I would have done it all over, I wouldn't even have had an 
APPEND command but rather have had each KERNEL statement be the full 
command line.

	-hpa

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