[syslinux] updating the wiki

[Ady]

> On Fri, Dec 05, 2014 at 10:16:10AM +0100, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> > On Fri, 5 Dec 2014, Gene Cumm wrote:
> > 
> > > If so: http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/Mboot.c32
> > 
> > I???m not permitted to edit either that page or its talk page.
> > Do I submit the content addition here, then?
> 
> Euh, yes, that is an option.
> 
> 
> Hereby I volunteer for updating the wiki with updates
> that get to this mailinglist.
> 
> This should allow other people in the Syslinux project
> to make the Syslinux wiki a wiki that resists spam.
> 
> 
> Groeten
> Geert Stappers
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Adding information to the Syslinux wiki regarding a specific OS (or 
regarding any project other than The Syslinux Project) usually also 
generates problems.

The FreeBSD info is one example of such problematic cases. The boot 
loader used to work in a certain way (e.g. compatible with mboot), but 
later versions of FreeBSD are using a different bootloader. The newer 
versions seem to be incompatible with mboot, and there is no original 
updated documentation about it. So users keep blaming Syslinux ("it 
fails", "it doesn't work") and/or its documentation ("someone claims to 
have had success one time, but there is no source for such claim, no 
version is mentioned, no mention of the specific boot options being 
used..."), and wasting time (not just their's, but also answering again 
and again about it) trying (and failing) to boot newer versions of 
FreeBSD with mboot.c32.

Posting additional examples in the mboot.c32 wiki page _might_ be 
useful, but it is certainly much more useful to post a link to original 
documentation. When the relevant boot loader changes and the original 
documentation changes, then users can find it, instead of 
(inadequately) expecting the mboot.c32 wiki page to be permanently 
up-to-date about other projects.

Regards,
Ady.