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

[Ionut Biru]

On 08/09/2012 01:55 AM, Myra Nelson wrote:
> 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.
> 

Why do you want ext2 on /boot? All bootloaders support ext3/4 this days.

> Myra
> 


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Ionuț

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