Syslinux - Nov 2006 - syslinux files in subdirectories

I have syslinux booting slax off of a usb stick but in
the process I think I may have found a bug in syslinux
im using version syslinux-3.31 my syslinux.cfg use to
look as follows

<== beginning
display boot/splash.cfg
default slax autoexec=startx
prompt 1
timeout 40
F1 boot/splash.txt
F2 boot/splash2.txt
F3 boot/splash.cfg

label slax
kernel boot/vmlinuz
append vga=769 changes=slaxsave.dat max_loop=255
initrd=boot/initrd.gz init=linu
xrc load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 ramdisk_size=4444
root=/dev/ram0 rw

label linux
kernel boot/vmlinuz
append vga=769 changes=slaxsave.dat max_loop=255
initrd=boot/initrd.gz init=linu
xrc load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 ramdisk_size=4444
root=/dev/ram0 rw

label memtest
kernel boot/memtest
<== end

when syslinux came up it didn't display the image or
anything and when it tried to boot it tried to boot a
file called boot/vml.inu

I realized this is a 8.3 problem and the directory is
getting counted as part of the 8 this would be
slightly messed up using doses concat to filename as
well
dos 8.3 is something as follows
for really_long_filename.txt would be concated as
really~1.txt or something like that it depends hom
many files start with really... the number would
change.

I moved all the files in my boot directory to the root
of the drive and edited all the files accordingly and
it all worked fine.

So the question is as follows why couldn't syslinux
open files in directories?

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On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 11:22:21AM -0800, Jeff Sadowski
wrote:
> I realized this is a 8.3 problem and the directory is
> getting counted as part of the 8 this would be
> slightly messed up using doses concat to filename as
> well
> dos 8.3 is something as follows
> for really_long_filename.txt would be concated as
> really~1.txt or something like that it depends hom
> many files start with really... the number would
> change.
> 
> I moved all the files in my boot directory to the root
> of the drive and edited all the files accordingly and
> it all worked fine.
> 
> So the question is as follows why couldn't syslinux
> open files in directories?
Implementation decision. It's not a bug, it's working as expected:

  SYSLINUX (the FAT filesystem version) doesn't support subdirectories.

        -hpa

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Jeff Sadowski wrote:
> I have syslinux booting slax off of a usb stick but in
> the process I think I may have found a bug in syslinux
> im using version syslinux-3.31 my syslinux.cfg use to
> look as follows
 >
 > So the question is as follows why couldn't syslinux
 > open files in directories?
 >

SYSLINUX (the FAT filesystem version) doesn't support subdirectories.

	-hpa

> SYSLINUX (the FAT filesystem version) doesn't support subdirectories.
 >
 >    -hpa

Hello,
is there any progress in syslinux supporting subdirectories?

I would suggest to support at least a '/boot/' directory, so the boot 
files (kernel images, syslinux.cfg) can be in a single dir instead of 
placing them to root.

Thank you for your consideration

Tomas M
slax.org