Package: dosfstools Version: 2.11-5 Severity: serious Tags: d-i Booting d-i boot floppies fails now:
Booting from floppy... Boot error It appears to be failing to load its second stage ldlinux.sys file from the image. (This is in qemu, FWIW.) I downgraded to dosfstools 2.11-2.1 and rebuilt the same image, and syslinux boots that one fine. Simple recipe to reproduce the problem: mkfs.msdos -C foo 1440 syslinux -s foo qemu -fda foo -boot a Hmm, disabling 14-bootcode.dpatch fixes this problem. And the specific line that causes the bug is this one: - bs.hidden = CT_LE_L(hidden_sectors); + bs.hidden = bs.secs_track; I don't really understand this stuff, but this seems to be reserving one track worth of hidden sectors even when the bootcode isn't being used, and I guess that's either wrong, or screws up syslinux. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages dosfstools depends on: ii libc6 2.7-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries dosfstools recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- see shy jo
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