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Offline linus72

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Bad News for Microcore and syslinux
« on: June 09, 2009, 12:42:49 PM »
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. ;D

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Re: Bad News for Microcore and syslinux
« Reply #1 on: June 09, 2009, 01:04:04 PM »
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.
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Re: Bad News for Microcore and syslinux
« Reply #2 on: June 17, 2009, 08:30:28 AM »
As i already said; rename it anything with 8 letters or under. ;)