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and subject line Re: please provide an -a an -m option for syslinux
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regarding please provide an -a an -m option for syslinux
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Package: syslinux
Version: 2:4.02+dfsg-3
Severity: wishlist
Tags: upstream
syslinux for Windows provides the options -m (write an MBR) and -a (make
partition active). These options make it easy to provide instructions
for Windows users to make a bootable USB drive: just run "syslinux -m
-a" on the drive, then drop some files on the drive including a
syslinux.cfg. However, those same instructions won't work on Linux,
because syslinux for Linux doesn't provide the -m or -a options. As a
result, instructions for making bootable USB drives need to have extra
steps for Linux users, to write an MBR and to make sure the partition
has the bootable flag set.
Please consider adding support for the -m and -a options.
(Also, if they don't already, please consider making the -m and -a
options check for a valid partition table first to avoid mangling
"superfloppy" partitionless USB drives.)
Thanks,
Josh Triplett
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.35-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages syslinux depends on:
ii libc6 2.11.2-2 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii syslinux-common 2:4.02+dfsg-3 collection of boot loaders (common
syslinux recommends no packages.
Versions of packages syslinux suggests:
ii dosfstools 3.0.9-1 utilities for making and checking
ii mtools 4.0.12-1 Tools for manipulating MSDOS files
-- no debconf information
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bug has been forwarded to upstream, nobody worked on it every since, i
don't see a reason to let this rot in the debian bts forever, hence closing.
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