Bad News for Microcore and syslinux

[linus72]

OK, I know most here don't advocate using FAT16/32 USB's using syslinux to boot tc
However, some users will want to do this.
Problem-
Syslinux can only recognize filenames 8 letters long and filename extensions 3 letters long.

microcore.gz is not recognized by syslinux at boot, too many letters.

Solution; re-name microcore.gz to whatever has 8 letters or less;
Name it "blue" and it'll work!
append initrd=/boot/blue

But, not microcore.

Just a heads up gang, I actually use ext2 usb with grub, but in making tc-2.0-usb download for my site I discovered this bug, as my download is made to boot anyway; syslinux, isolinux, grub.

[softwaregurl]

Just a thought.  Did you try the msdos filename.  It's been a while, but something like microc~1.gz
I used to fight with the Win95 extended filenames under 3.1x and msdos.

[linus72]

As i already said; rename it anything with 8 letters or under.