[PATCH] lh_binary_syslinux: drop .img off of kernel names so isolinux will boot

[maarten at treewalker.org (Maarten ter Huurne)]

On Friday 19 October 2007, Jesse W. Hathaway wrote:
> diff --git a/helpers/lh_binary_syslinux b/helpers/lh_binary_syslinux
> index 68fa0f3..ac053f4 100755
> --- a/helpers/lh_binary_syslinux
> +++ b/helpers/lh_binary_syslinux
> @@ -102,10 +102,11 @@ Syslinux_live_entry ()
>     then
>        num=$(ls -1 ${KERNEL_PATH}|grep 'vmlinuz.\.img$'|wc -l)
>        num=$(($num +1))
> -      mv ${KERNEL_PATH}/${KERNEL} ${KERNEL_PATH}/vmlinuz${num}.img
> -      mv ${KERNEL_PATH}/${INITRD} ${KERNEL_PATH}/initrd${num}.img
> -      KERNEL=vmlinuz${num}.img
> -      INITRD=initrd${num}.img
> +		# isolinux will not boot images which end in '.img'
> +      mv ${KERNEL_PATH}/${KERNEL} ${KERNEL_PATH}/vmlinuz${num}
> +      mv ${KERNEL_PATH}/${INITRD} ${KERNEL_PATH}/initrd${num}
> +      KERNEL=vmlinuz${num}
> +      INITRD=initrd${num}
>     fi
>
>     # Regular kernel

Note that it's not necessary to also drop ".img" from the initrd file name. 
It might be more consistent to do so though.

About the comment line: I haven't tested whether it's the presence of the 
dot or the total length of the file name that causes the problem.

Bye,
		Maarten
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