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

[Leonid Isaev]

On Thu, 9 Aug 2012 11:12:34 -0400
Jonathan <eyeswide at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

But there is no ext{2,3} these days. The driver is ext4 for all ext* FS, only
configurations differ...

> 
> 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



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