On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 7:46 PM, Ionut Biru <ib...@archlinux.org> wrote: > On 08/09/2012 01:55 AM, Myra Nelson wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Dave Reisner <d...@falconindy.com> wrote: >>> On Aug 8, 2012 6:04 PM, "Allan McRae" <al...@archlinux.org> wrote: >>>> >>>> On 09/08/12 05:29, Tobias Powalowski wrote: >>>>> Am 08.08.2012 21:25, schrieb Evangelos Foutras: >>>>>> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Tobias Powalowski >>>>>> <tobias.powalow...@googlemail.com> wrote: >>>>>>> It was just a rebuild, with an added optdepend :/ >>>>>>> Sorry folks, didn't want to break something. >>>>>>> I don't have the time now to look at it. >>>>>> Seems like a patch was added: avoid-using-ext2_fs.patch. >>>>>> >>>>>> I took the liberty to remove the package from [testing] until we >>>>>> figure out what's broken. >>>>> The patch is from fedora, to be able to build syslinux. >>>>> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/syslinux.git/tree/ >>>>> >>>> >>>> It is needed as the ext2 fs stuff has been removed from the kernel >>> headers. >>>> >>>> Allan >>>> >>> >>> Incidentally it also causes ext2 /boot to be unbootable. >> >> Incidentally it also causes ext2 /boot to be unbootable, without a >> doubt it does. >> >> Dave's install scripts work great easiest install I've ever done, >> however it won't boot off of ext2 with syslinux. >> > > Why do you want ext2 on /boot? All bootloaders support ext3/4 this days. > >> Myra >> > > > -- > Ionuț > Ionut:
Some old habits are hard to break. Some of us "old foggys" are just to set in some of our ways. What can I say. I don't mean to be inflammatory here, but what's the difference? I've always figured it was my computer, my system, set up my way, and it's not hurting any one else. I guess I'll just keep my comments, good or bad, to my self. Sorry for the noise. Myra -- Life's fun when your sick and psychotic!
