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

[Jonathan]

On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 8:46 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
>

In the past I have seen ext2 saves time during boot vs ext3.Having a
journal is no use since the files are rarely changed and the
filesystem is mostly opened read only. The journal takes up some
space. These may matter to you if you are trying to optimize boot
times or disk usage.

to see journal size:
device=/dev/sda7; debugfs -R "stat <$(tune2fs -l $device | awk
'/Journal.inode/ {print $3}')>" $device |& awk '/Size: / {print $6}' |
head -1; unset device

John