Re: syslinux: updating in stretch?

On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 06:47:28PM +0200, Lukas Schwaighofer wrote: > >I'll wait with the pu request until I've also gotten feedback from the >CD team as you suggested. As confirmed in IRC last night - I think this all looks good too. Thanks for your work Lukas! -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge,

Re: syslinux: updating in stretch?

Hi, thanks a lot for your feedback and for explaining the whole process. On Wed, 18 Oct 2017 01:44:25 +0200 Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > I didn't think to open a separate bug against syslinux, which > > would have been the right thing to do… the bug against debian-cd, > > which

Re: syslinux: updating in stretch?

Hi Lukas, And thanks for your mail. I'm adding debian-boot@ for their information. Lukas Schwaighofer (2017-10-17): > as it turns out, syslinux in stretch is in a quite sorry state. To > summarize: > > 1. Booting from ext4 partitions created with Debian stretch does

syslinux: updating in stretch?

Hi, as it turns out, syslinux in stretch is in a quite sorry state. To summarize: 1. Booting from ext4 partitions created with Debian stretch does not work, because ext4's 64bit feature is enabled by default (since Debian stretch) and not supported by syslinux [1]. 2. Booting from btrfs