Syslinux - Jan 2008 - syslinux does not interpret backslash

Hello list,

while I managed to install syslinux and have it boot,
there seems to be
a problem with interpreting filenames. It looks for
files in /boot but
at the same time does not realize that the "/" is not
part of the
filename. It prompts me with boot: then every filename
I type is set to
2 characters "." 3 characters i.e vmlinuz would appear
as vm.lin. To me
it looks like syslinux uses /boot/ as part of the
filename here ( 6
characters )

Not sure whether I am missing something here, or
whether this migh be a
subtle bug.

The stick is 1GB ha one partition set by parted
(msdos) and formatted
with mkfs.vfat, then initialized with syslinux
/dev/xyz

Thanks for any helpful insight,

Casual




     
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Op 18-01-2008 om 02:59 schreef Casual Programmer:
> Hello list,
> 
> while I managed to install syslinux and have it boot, there seems to be
> a problem with interpreting filenames. It looks for files in /boot but
> at the same time does not realize that the "/" is not part of the
> filename. It prompts me with boot: then every filename I type is set to
> 2 characters "." 3 characters i.e vmlinuz would appear as vm.lin.
To me
> it looks like syslinux uses /boot/ as part of the filename here ( 6
> characters )
> 
> Not sure whether I am missing something here,
> or whether this migh be a subtle bug.
I would go for the first option.

 
> The stick is 1GB ha one partition set by parted (msdos) and formatted
> with mkfs.vfat, then initialized with syslinux /dev/xyz
> 
> Thanks for any helpful insight,
insight is allways helpfull.

Where I do my best, I'm completely lost by the above message.

For me is a backslash  the \ character.
Backslash is in the subject line, but nowhere in the message body.
> It prompts me with boot: then every filename I type
At the boot prompt has a LABEL to be typed.


> i.e vmlinuz would appear as vm.lin. To me
The syslinux website says at http://syslinux.zytor.com/faq.php

| Since version 3.32 label names are no longer mangled into DOS
| format (for SYSLINUX.)

Could a syslinux from before 3.32 used?

> The stick is 1GB ha one partition set by parted (msdos)
> and formatted with mkfs.vfat,
So only less then 5% of the capacity of the stick is used.
I would go for EXTLINUX and use to full gigabyte.


Cheers
Geert Stappers

Thanks for the fast reply,
>For me is a backslash  the \ character.
>Backslash is in the subject line, but nowhere in the
message body.

Alas I got confused here, please read "backslash" as
"slash"
>> It prompts me with boot: then every filename I type
>At the boot prompt has a LABEL to be typed.

>> i.e vmlinuz would appear as vm.lin. To me
>The syslinux website says at
http://syslinux.zytor.com/faq.php
>
>| Since version 3.32 label names are no longer
mangled into DOS format 
>| (for SYSLINUX.)
>
>Could a syslinux from before 3.32 used?
Good point, I will check that.
>> The stick is 1GB ha one partition set by parted
(msdos) and formatted 
>> with mkfs.vfat,
>So only less then 5% of the capacity of the stick is
used.
>I would go for EXTLINUX and use to full gigabyte.
Actually not, with FAT32 the full capacity is
available.

Casual

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Casual Programmer wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> while I managed to install syslinux and have it boot,
> there seems to be
> a problem with interpreting filenames. It looks for
> files in /boot but
> at the same time does not realize that the "/" is not
> part of the
> filename. It prompts me with boot: then every filename
> I type is set to
> 2 characters "." 3 characters i.e vmlinuz would appear
> as vm.lin. To me
> it looks like syslinux uses /boot/ as part of the
> filename here ( 6
> characters )
> 
> Not sure whether I am missing something here, or
> whether this migh be a
> subtle bug.
> 
I tried it with the current version of syslinux (3.61-pre2), and I 
cannot reproduce this failure.

	-hpa

Thank you, hpa,

I was using the openSuSE supplied rpm which is at
3.31-76. Considering
your and rest of lists feedback, I decided to make it
myself as well as
switch to EXTLINUX. It seems that with EXTLINUX I can
boot some hitherto
unusable sticks with 2048 byte sectors.

Thanks for providing this useful project.

Casual

On Fr, 2008-01-18 at 11:05 -0500, H. Peter Anvin
wrote:
> Casual Programmer wrote:
> > Hello list,
> > 
> > while I managed to install syslinux and have it
boot,
> > there seems to be
> > a problem with interpreting filenames. It looks
for
> > files in /boot but
> > at the same time does not realize that the "/" is
not
> > part of the
> > filename. It prompts me with boot: then every
filename
> > I type is set to
> > 2 characters "." 3 characters i.e vmlinuz would
appear
> > as vm.lin. To me
> > it looks like syslinux uses /boot/ as part of the
> > filename here ( 6
> > characters )
> > 
> > Not sure whether I am missing something here, or
> > whether this migh be a
> > subtle bug.
> > 
> 
> I tried it with the current version of syslinux
(3.61-pre2), and I 
> cannot reproduce this failure.
> 
> 	-hpa
> 
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