On 12/22/18 6:27 AM, Bjoern Franke wrote:
Hi Eli,
While I understand it's disappointing to not have desired features from the package, it does take some time to get those features when they suffer from being both unreleased code, and code on top of a package that doesn't validly build in 2018. Please wait, we are trying to get to a working state, and hopefully our syslinux maintainer will be able to resolve this sometime soon. Once we can trust the package actually works, we can move it to stable.
Hope this clears things up for you. :) Good luck.
I'm thankful for pointing out the issues regarding syslinux. I assumed some issues when seeing that 6.04 was not released since 2 years, but I did not assume that it is so bad. Sounds somehow like upstream is more or less dead? :/ But in MBR-land it seems to be the only alternative to grub?
Bootloaders seem to suffer from a depressing lack of competition. Much as I like grub, I can appreciate the sadness that is this lack. Apparently syslinux git (a.k.a. the future 6.04) will also finally support the ext4 "64bit" feature. Took them long enough. :( -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User