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

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Mon Sep 24 18:02:59 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 12:33 +0200, 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.
>
> 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.

ppc stuff has to be under a ppc directory.  Hooray for architecture
booting constraints!

Jeremy




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