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authorhpa <hpa>2002-04-28 23:13:42 +0000
committerhpa <hpa>2002-04-28 23:13:42 +0000
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Change, and document, the search sequence of extensions.
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Chain loading requires the boot sector of the foreign operating system
to be stored in a file in the root directory of the filesystem.
Because neither Linux kernels, boot sector images, nor COMBOOT files
-have reliable magic numbers, SYSLINUX will look at the file
-extension. The following extensions are recognized:
-
- none or other Linux kernel image
- .CBT COMBOOT image (not runnable from DOS)
- .BSS Boot sector (DOS superblock will be patched in)
- .BS Boot sector
- .COM COMBOOT image (runnable from DOS)
+have reliable magic numbers, SYSLINUX will look at the file extension.
+The following extensions are recognized (case insensitive):
+
+ none or other Linux kernel image
+ .cbt COMBOOT image (not runnable from DOS)
+ .bss Boot sector, DOS superblock will be patched in [SYSLINUX only]
+ .bs Boot sector [SYSLINUX only]
+ .bin "CD boot sector" [ISOLINUX only]
+ .com COMBOOT image (runnable from DOS)
+ .img Disk image [ISOLINUX only]
+ .0 PXE bootstrap program (NBP) [PXELINUX only]
For filenames given on the command line, SYSLINUX will search for the
file by adding extensions in the order listed above if the plain