[Fedora-livecd-list] [PATCH 4/7] move syslinux and isolinux directories under /boot

[Douglas McClendon]

Alexandre Magaz Graça wrote:
> En/na Douglas McClendon ha escrit:
>> This patch moves the /isolinux directory on the livecd to 
>> /boot/isolinux, and the /syslinux directory on liveusb to /boot/syslinux.
>>
>> I think that this will be make the livecd appear less intimidating to 
>> new non-linux-guru users.  Aesthetics.
>>
>> Since I don't use ppc myself, I didn't attempt to also move the /ppc 
>> dir to /boot/ppc on the ppc side.  But I would recommend that as well 
>> if possible.
>>
>> -dmc
>>
> 
> Why not to put both the isolinux and ppc files directly into the /boot 
> directory? I don't see the sense of having the /boot directory containig 
> only a subdirectory. You already know the boot directory holds boot 
> manager files, and configuration filenames tells you what boot manager 
> it uses.

To my understanding, with isolinux, the two and only two choices are 
/boot/isolinux and /isolinux.  Though I have in the past put my kernel 
and initrd in /boot, with just the isolinux files under /boot/isolinux. 
  Likewise, just to put all options on the table, a decent argument can 
be made for putting /LiveOS under /boot (or just the files therein).

from /usr/share/doc/syslinux-*/syslinux.doc

     ++++ CONFIGURATION FILE ++++

All the configurable defaults in SYSLINUX can be changed by putting a
file called "syslinux.cfg" in the root directory of the boot disk.

This is a text file in either UNIX or DOS format, containing one or
more of the following items (case is insensitive for keywords; upper
case is used here to indicate that a word should be typed verbatim):

Starting with version 3.35, the configuration file can also be in
either the /boot/syslinux or /syslinux directories (searched in that
order.)  If that is the case, then all filenames are assumed to be
relative to that same directory, unless preceded with a slash or
backslash.

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-dmc