Package: syslinux
Version: 3:6.03~pre1+dfsg-1
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream, fixed-upstream
Hi Daniel,
syslinux from experimental has problems booting in older versions of
VirtualBox, such as the one shipped in Wheezy (4.1.18-dfsg-2+deb7u3).
OTOH, syslinux 4.x boots the same ISO image just fine, regardless of
the VirtualBox version; and syslinux from experimental boots fine in
VirtualBox from wheezy-backports (4.3.10-dfsg-1~bpo70+1).
According to upstream, this is not limited to VirtualBox, and also
affects QEMU 0.11.1. It is reported to have been fixed in syslinux
6.03-pre5:
http://bugzilla.syslinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45
http://www.syslinux.org/archives/2014-April/021968.html
http://www.syslinux.org/archives/2014-March/021782.html
=> please update syslinux in experimental to 6.03-pre5 or later.
If there are good reasons not to do so, I'd be curious to learn
about it :)
Thank you for maintaining syslinux in Debian.
(Off-topic: as a bonus, 6.03-pre9 adds support for automatically
passing FSUUID= to the kernel, which I'm willing to consider adding
support for in live-boot, as Tails needs something like this to deal
with newer USB sticks — most notably Sandisk — that have the removable
flag off.)
Cheers,
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