Syslinux - Nov 2010 - problem booting files with .bin in their name (eg. memtest86+.bin)

It took me forever to figure out why I couldn't tftp boot into
memtest86+, I had the file "memtest86+.bin" installed into my
tftproot,
and it was being loaded when I selected that menu item, but it would
result in a series of repeating numbers on the left hand side of the
screen. 

Eventually, after trying a million different things, and then asking
someone I know who has fought these problems in the past, he suggested
that in the past there was an issue with syslinux/pxelinux with files
that had .bin as a suffix. 

So, I tried to remove it, and there we go, it works. I'm using 4.02.

if there is a better place to file this 'bug', please let me know!

thanks for your work on this project!
micah

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On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 23:17, Micah Anderson <micah at riseup.net>
wrote:
> It took me forever to figure out why I couldn't tftp boot into
> memtest86+, I had the file "memtest86+.bin" installed into my
tftproot,
> and it was being loaded when I selected that menu item, but it would
> result in a series of repeating numbers on the left hand side of the
> screen.
>
> Eventually, after trying a million different things, and then asking
> someone I know who has fought these problems in the past, he suggested
> that in the past there was an issue with syslinux/pxelinux with files
> that had .bin as a suffix.
>
> So, I tried to remove it, and there we go, it works. I'm using 4.02.
>
> if there is a better place to file this 'bug', please let me know!
>
> thanks for your work on this project!
> micah
This is not a bug but a feature.  Please read doc/syslinux.txt as
file.bin is automagically detected as a "bootstrap program" and
probably needs to be loaded like a Linux kernel.

http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/Common_Problems#Watch_the_name_of_your_kernel

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-Gene