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

[Myra Nelson]

On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 7:46 PM, Ionut Biru <ibiru at archlinux.org> wrote:
> 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
>>
>
>
> --
> Ionuț
>
Ionut:

Some old habits are hard to break. Some of us "old foggys" are just to
set in some of our ways. What can I say.

I don't mean to be inflammatory here, but what's the difference? I've
always figured it was my computer, my system, set up my way, and it's
not hurting any one else. I guess I'll just keep my comments, good or
bad, to my self.

Sorry for the noise.

Myra


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