Package: syslinux Version: 2:4.03+dfsg-12 Severity: important Tags: patch upstream squeeze
syslinux is unable to boot when run by windows7 mbr code, displaying a message "Boot error" instead of booting properly. This is important bug because it's a common situation to have linux and windows on the same machine installed, windows is typically of version 7 nowadays, and after installing win7 one can't load linux anymore until the mbr code is fixed, which is difficult to diagnose to start with. This is all provided that syslinux is used to boot linux. I'm filing this bug against syslinux package, but it's equally applicable for extlinux, since both use the same boot code, they differ only in installer. Upstream commit: http://git.kernel.org/?p=boot/syslinux/syslinux.git;a=commit;h=5b1f5189081f677e4a578e2a6d52c60a7c082e1d fixes this issue in 4.04 (the actual problem apparently is in win7 mbr code instead of syslinux, but we have to cope with such errors unfortunately). Generally, 4.04 version has many other bugfixes which are worth to have in Debian. Thanks! -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (600, 'testing'), (500, 'oldstable'), (50, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages syslinux depends on: ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii syslinux-common 2:4.03+dfsg-12 collection of boot loaders (common syslinux recommends no packages. Versions of packages syslinux suggests: ii dosfstools 3.0.9-1 utilities for making and checking ii mtools 4.0.12-1 Tools for manipulating MSDOS files pn os-prober <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
