Control: tags -1 + pending On Sun, 2017-10-29 at 17:58 +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > Control: tags -1 + confirmed > > On Wed, 2017-10-25 at 18:21 +0200, Lukas Schwaighofer wrote: > > I hereby ask for permission to update the syslinux package in > > stretch. > > There has been a short discussion about this on debian-cd already > > [1]. > > The request is about fixing the following three problems: > > > > 1. Booting from ext4 filesystems created with Debian stretch does > > not > > work, because ext4's 64bit feature is enabled by default (since > > Debian stretch) and not supported by syslinux [2]. > > 2. Booting from btrfs does not work either for a similar reason > > [3]. > > 3. A bug in the isolinux isohybrid MBR causing boot failures with > > some > > old BIOS [4]. > > > > [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-cd/2017/10/msg00032.html > > [2] https://bugs.debian.org/833057 > > [3] https://bugs.debian.org/865462 > > [4] https://bugs.debian.org/879004 > > Please go ahead.
Uploaded and flagged for acceptance. Regards, Adam
