On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 05:06:47PM +0200, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > Just to provide some quick reaction: supporting -m and -a is being > seriously considered (I can't find the reference, maybe I chatted about > this with hpa on IRC), but that isn't particularly easy because finding > the respective MBR(s) isn't always obvious: think about LVM and RAID for > example. However, after adding LVM and RAID (metadata 1.2) support, > which is short term, these options will be possible to support. Maybe > hpa (the Syslinux maintainer) will give a more detailed (or at least > more founded) reply soon.
I understand the complexity involved in finding the right MBR. Howver, for the use case I mentioned (making a bootable USB disk), those additional complexities don't really apply. For that common case, I'd have no problem with syslinux -m simply throwing up its hands if it ran into something complicated. Thanks, Josh Triplett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
