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

[Alexandre Magaz Graça]

En/na Douglas McClendon ha escrit:
> 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.
> 

Ok, then I think it's better to use /boot/syslinux.