[arch-dev-public] syslinux 4.05-5 does not boot

[Dave Reisner]

On Aug 8, 2012 6:04 PM, "Allan McRae" <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
>
> On 09/08/12 05:29, Tobias Powalowski wrote:
> > Am 08.08.2012 21:25, schrieb Evangelos Foutras:
> >> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Tobias Powalowski
> >> <tobias.powalowski at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >>> It was just a rebuild, with an added optdepend :/
> >>> Sorry folks, didn't want to break something.
> >>> I don't have the time now to look at it.
> >> Seems like a patch was added: avoid-using-ext2_fs.patch.
> >>
> >> I took the liberty to remove the package from [testing] until we
> >> figure out what's broken.
> > The patch is from fedora, to be able to build syslinux.
> > http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/syslinux.git/tree/
> >
>
> It is needed as the ext2 fs stuff has been removed from the kernel
headers.
>
> Allan
>

Incidentally it also causes ext2 /boot to be unbootable.