Syslinux - Jan 2007 - without msdos filesystem

If 'msdos' filesystem is not compiled in Kernel (and I don't have
the
msdos.ko module neither), then syslinux refuses to work.

Is it possible to fix syslinux to try more filesystems, not only msdos?

Or is it possible to call the mount command somehow without filesystem 
option at all, so the kernel (or whatever) will decide itself what 
filesystem to use?


Thank you for consideration

Tomas M
slax.org

Just a clarification regarding this email, as it seems some users didn't 
understand my question.

I'm talking about the syslinux installer (executable binary), not the 
syslinux bootloader itself.

I'm talking about ./unix/syslinux.c, line 337 and 359



Tomas



Tomas M wrote:
> If 'msdos' filesystem is not compiled in Kernel (and I don't
have the
> msdos.ko module neither), then syslinux refuses to work.
> 
> Is it possible to fix syslinux to try more filesystems, not only msdos?
> 
> Or is it possible to call the mount command somehow without filesystem 
> option at all, so the kernel (or whatever) will decide itself what 
> filesystem to use?
> 
> 
> Thank you for consideration
> 
> Tomas M
> slax.org
> 
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Tomas M wrote:
> If 'msdos' filesystem is not compiled in Kernel (and I don't
have the
> msdos.ko module neither), then syslinux refuses to work.
> 
> Is it possible to fix syslinux to try more filesystems, not only msdos?
> 
> Or is it possible to call the mount command somehow without filesystem 
> option at all, so the kernel (or whatever) will decide itself what 
> filesystem to use?
No, that would cause random failures.

	-hpa