[syslinux] Upgraded to Syslinux 5.00 - Failed to load ldlinux.c32

Matt Fleming matt at console-pimps.org
Thu Jan 10 04:04:15 PST 2013


On Thu, 2012-12-20 at 14:29 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 12/19/2012 06:10 AM, Igor Sverkos wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 2012-12-19 13:44, Paulo Alcantara wrote:
> >> If either Peter or Matt feels that "/boot/extlinux" should be supported,
> >> here goes a patch that adds such support:
> >>
> >> Add "/boot/extlinux" path to be looked up when finding ldlinux.c32 and
> >> Syslinux config files.
> >>
> >> [...]
> >
> > Well, your patch will work in my situation, but I think your solution is
> > wrong:
> >
> > Remember that the documentation says, that you can install sys/extlinux
> > in whatever subdirectory you want. For example "/boot/myBootloader"
> > should also work.
> >
> > Your solution would require, that if you want any custom path, that you
> > have to patch... that sounds wrong to me.
> >
> > So I think we need clarification if a custom subdirectory should still
> > be supported in syslinux v5. If yes, there is somewhere a bug. If not,
> > the setup should offer this option and documentation needs an update.
> 
> It's a bug, we'll fix it in 5.01.

It's now fixed in git.

-- 
Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center



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