Re: Syslinux in stretch-backports (Re: syslinux_6.04~git20171011.af7e95c3+dfsg1-4~bpo9+1_amd64.changes is NEW)

2018-11-15 Thread Ingo Wichmann
Hallo Carl, thx for the pointer. I fit in the group described with "conditions when you might want to consider using it" ;-) A feature I missed is "chainload". I wanted to chainload grub2, just to give it a try. "As I write (summer, 2018), the latest version is 6.0.3, and has not been updated

Re: Syslinux in stretch-backports (Re: syslinux_6.04~git20171011.af7e95c3+dfsg1-4~bpo9+1_amd64.changes is NEW)

2018-11-14 Thread Carl Karsten
On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 11:32 AM Ingo Wichmann wrote: > > Hi Steve, > > Am 23.10.2018 um 15:04 schrieb Holger Levsen: > > >> Wow. I'm surprised to hear anybody is actually really using syslinux > >> with UEFI! I'm curious why, rather than grub - can you share? > > I've got a working setup with

Re: Syslinux in stretch-backports (Re: syslinux_6.04~git20171011.af7e95c3+dfsg1-4~bpo9+1_amd64.changes is NEW)

2018-10-23 Thread Ingo Wichmann
Hi Steve, Am 23.10.2018 um 15:04 schrieb Holger Levsen: >> Wow. I'm surprised to hear anybody is actually really using syslinux >> with UEFI! I'm curious why, rather than grub - can you share? I've got a working setup with pxelinux. And I don't want to maintain a grub and a syslinux

Re: Syslinux in stretch-backports (Re: syslinux_6.04~git20171011.af7e95c3+dfsg1-4~bpo9+1_amd64.changes is NEW)

2018-10-23 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 07:37:14PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 09:32:13PM +0200, Lukas Schwaighofer wrote: > >> thanks for uploading syslinux to backports. Was there a specific reason > >> for that I should be aware of? > >a customer asked for it, claiming

Re: Syslinux in stretch-backports (Re: syslinux_6.04~git20171011.af7e95c3+dfsg1-4~bpo9+1_amd64.changes is NEW)

2018-10-16 Thread Holger Levsen
On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 07:37:14PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Wow. I'm surprised to hear anybody is actually really using syslinux > with UEFI! I'm curious why, rather than grub - can you share? the pxelinux package seems to be whats really wanted. -- cheers, Holger

Re: Syslinux in stretch-backports (Re: syslinux_6.04~git20171011.af7e95c3+dfsg1-4~bpo9+1_amd64.changes is NEW)

2018-10-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 05:38:14PM +, Holger Levsen wrote: >Hi Lukas, > >On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 09:32:13PM +0200, Lukas Schwaighofer wrote: >> thanks for uploading syslinux to backports. Was there a specific reason >> for that I should be aware of? > >a customer asked for it, claiming

Re: Syslinux in stretch-backports (Re: syslinux_6.04~git20171011.af7e95c3+dfsg1-4~bpo9+1_amd64.changes is NEW)

2018-10-13 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Lukas, On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 09:32:13PM +0200, Lukas Schwaighofer wrote: > thanks for uploading syslinux to backports. Was there a specific reason > for that I should be aware of? a customer asked for it, claiming several problems with UEFI. > Heads up: I plan to upload a new version