[manjaro-dev] Fwd: Re: Arch boot problem

Carl Duff cdrw2400 at gmail.com
Wed Nov 6 20:33:20 CET 2013


Syslinux6 definitely supports UEFI; this was the only live-CD method I
could boot with, although it was just the rfind menu.


On 6 November 2013 19:28, Philip Müller <philm at manjaro.org> wrote:

>  We can build some internals instead before we release something to be
> tested by the public. When I'm done with the kernels I upload syslinux4 and
> you can test after I checked with manjaroiso. You might see some commits in
> gitlab about it. Then there might be no need to push to many RCs out ...
>
> syslinux6 supports EFI now. This is great news for a graphical menu but
> currently it seems not to work properly. We use a different system to boot
> UEFI and I even don't know if that works at all. syslinux4 was only used
> for BIOS so I revert any changes I did to adopt to syslinux6 and we wait
> until there is a working way by upstream (Arch) to use syslinux as the one
> livecd bootloader for all cases ...
>
> Am 06.11.2013 20:25, schrieb Carl Duff:
>
> Well, again I'll test it thoroughly, so we should get away without too
> many RCs. I have three latops to test it on, with a fourth being bought
> tomorrow.
>
>  And no, only two are mine.
>
>
> On 6 November 2013 19:22, Philip Müller <philm at manjaro.org> wrote:
>
>>  Well, it can only be this change. I don't care to use syslinux4 for our
>> live-medias. It makes no sense at all to ship something broken. It changed
>> with RC1 so we can change it back with RC3 and test it again. I still hope
>> we don't have to do a RC4 or so. Thus gets only translations and small
>> bugfixes. I don't plan to add any new feature to it now. Also Antergos just
>> add some normal code to Cnchi ...
>>
>> Am 06.11.2013 20:20, schrieb Carl Duff:
>>
>> The joys of a bleeding edge system, eh?
>>
>>
>> On 6 November 2013 19:17, Philip Müller <philm at manjaro.org> wrote:
>>
>>>  I think it should simply work. I might have to modify manjaroiso once
>>> more to get the old isolinux menu running.
>>> I adapted to syslinux 6-series. Lets see what is needed for syslinux
>>> 4-series to be restored ...
>>> Currently I'm compiling some kernels.
>>>
>>> Am 06.11.2013 20:14, schrieb Carl Duff:
>>>
>>> Checked pre3, RC1, RC2,  and this seems to be correct.
>>>
>>>  If you make the change, then I will test the ISO thoroughly, both in a
>>> VM and for real ASAP. Just let me know when.
>>>
>>> We (as in people who know about this stuff) will also have to think of
>>> any possible long-term ramifications...
>>>
>>>  Carl
>>>
>>>
>>> On 6 November 2013 19:06, Philip Müller <philm at manjaro.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>>  If I'm correct we have followed versions of syslinux used for our
>>>> images:
>>>>
>>>> 0.8.7.1:       syslinux 4.07-1
>>>> 0.8.8pre3:   syslinux 4.07-1
>>>> 0.8.8rc1:     syslinux 6.02-3
>>>> 0.8.8rc2:     syslinux 6.02-4
>>>>
>>>> So I can create a new package called syslinux4 we can use for our
>>>> livecd and see what happens.
>>>>
>>>>
>
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