Package: extlinux
Version: 2:4.05+dfsg-3
Severity: normal

This latest version fails to boot windows 7. The error is something
like "cannot read master boot record on sector 0". I reverted to the
previous version (4.05+dfsg-2) and it works correctly. I tracked it
down to chain.c32, if I install -3 version, and after running
extlinux-update manually copy chain.c32 from -2 version, windows 7
boots properly.

Also interesting is that chain.c32 files differ, although I don't see
any change between -2 and -3 that would warrant it. Maybe it was
compiled with different compiler?

Here's the relevant entry in os-prober.cfg:

label o0
        menu label Other OS, Windows 7 (loader) (on /dev/sda1)
        kernel chain.c32
        append hd0 1

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.3.0 (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages extlinux depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.43
ii  libc6                  2.13-32

Versions of packages extlinux recommends:
pn  os-prober               1.53
pn  syslinux-common         2:4.05+dfsg-3
pn  syslinux-themes-debian  <none>

extlinux suggests no packages.

-- debconf information excluded



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