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. > PS: If this request gets ACKed, I also intend to fix the isohybrid > MBR > in jessie (as advised by Steve McIntyre). > Please file a separate bug for that. Regards, Adam