[syslinux] Voidlinux integration

[James Miller]

On Fri, 22 May 2020, Kai Hendry via Syslinux wrote:

> I despise complexity and Grub has been giving me headaches on Voidlinux..
>
> https://www.reddit.com/r/voidlinux/comments/gk5h5c/everytime_i_update_void_i_need_to_manually/
>
> I've switched to Syslinux, but I have the following queries.
>
> ├─sda1 vfat   FAT32       D91B-36F7                             190.7M    61% /boot
> └─sda2 ext4   1.0         0dd25845-8fa5-41e9-b82c-c63c27cf5d18   49.5G    50% /
>
>
> When I do a linux update, the Void package drops in a new files that look like vmlinuz-5.6.6_1/initramfs-5.6.6_1.img. How does one generate the /boot/EFI/syslinux/syslinux.cfg ? 
>
> Since /boot is FAT32, no symlinks can be used.
>
> Ideally syslinux could just allow me to browse and select the kernel/initrd, but that doesn't appear possible to do.

I think maybe what you want is this: http://sprunge.us/CJGUA6 . I use 
something similar on my non-UEFI Void systems, which I also boot using 
syslinux.