Bug#803938: extlinux: boot from xfs partition not working

2017-10-22 Thread Lukas Schwaighofer
Hi Marek, I've recently taken over maintenance of syslinux/exlinux as part of the Debian CD Group, so I it's time to have a look at my own bug report. Thanks for providing the link to the upstream changelog :) . I've just compiled the most recent version of syslinux from git. It turns out that e

Bug#803938: extlinux: boot from xfs partition not working

2017-06-22 Thread Marek Straka
As of June 2017 still not possible to boot from XFS. Maybe Syslinux 6.04 Changelog http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=Syslinux_6_Changelog : "XFS: Support XFS on-disk V5, node directories version 3, xfsprogs 4.x. (Paulo Alcantara)."

Bug#803938: extlinux: boot from xfs partition not working

2015-11-03 Thread Lukas Schwaighofer
Package: extlinux Version: 3:6.03+dfsg-10 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I can't seem to get extlinux to boot from an xfs formated partition. I've built myself a little script to create a clean image (attached). It works just fine if I use `mkfs.ext4` or `mkfs.btrfs` (i.e. it greets me w