Re: [arch-general] syslinux: out of date - or not?

2018-12-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Fri, 21 Dec 2018 16:13:23 +0100, Andy Pieters wrote: >I'm sorry to intrude here but how can that be related? It's not related, it's just a hint to workaround issues, if a migration has got advantages.

Re: [arch-general] syslinux: out of date - or not?

2018-12-21 Thread Anatol Pomozov via arch-general
Hello On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 3:34 AM Bjoern Franke wrote: > > Hi, > > I recently wanted to switch from grub to syslinux, but it could not boot > my /boot-partition, because it uses XFS. > > Unfortunately only syslinux 6.04 supports XFS, while we stick on 6.03. > 6.04 is somehow a "testing" vers

Re: [arch-general] syslinux: out of date - or not?

2018-12-21 Thread Genes Lists via arch-general
On 12/21/18 10:38 AM, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: ... Debian has patches for both -- neither of which the syslinux developer community has responded to, though given that they've only committed 2 patches in the last year, both of which were in response to a syslinux thread entitled "Is s

Re: [arch-general] syslinux: out of date - or not?

2018-12-21 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 12/21/18 6:34 AM, Bjoern Franke wrote: > Hi, > > I recently wanted to switch from grub to syslinux, but it could not boot > my /boot-partition, because it uses XFS. > > Unfortunately only syslinux 6.04 supports XFS, while we stick on 6.03. > 6.04 is somehow a "testing" version, thought it has

Re: [arch-general] syslinux: out of date - or not?

2018-12-21 Thread Andy Pieters
On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 3:37 PM Ralf Mardorf via arch-general wrote: > > A long time ago I migrated from GRUB2 to syslinux. In my case the file > system wasn't/isn't an issue, but the migration to syslinux had/has > pitfalls for me, too. Dual-monitor usage on demand is one of those > issues. Dunno

Re: [arch-general] syslinux: out of date - or not?

2018-12-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Fri, 21 Dec 2018 12:34:42 +0100, Bjoern Franke wrote: >I recently wanted to switch from grub to syslinux, but it could not >boot my /boot-partition, because it uses XFS. A long time ago I migrated from GRUB2 to syslinux. In my case the file system wasn't/isn't an issue, but the migration to sys

[arch-general] syslinux: out of date - or not?

2018-12-21 Thread Bjoern Franke
Hi, I recently wanted to switch from grub to syslinux, but it could not boot my /boot-partition, because it uses XFS. Unfortunately only syslinux 6.04 supports XFS, while we stick on 6.03. 6.04 is somehow a "testing" version, thought it has been out for 2 years, so I marked 6.03 as "out of date".