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

[Myra Nelson]

On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Dave Reisner <d at falconindy.com> wrote:
> 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.

Incidentally it also causes ext2 /boot to be unbootable, without a
doubt it does.

Dave's install scripts work great easiest install I've ever done,
however it won't boot off of ext2 with syslinux.

Myra
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