Re: Bug#480935: new syslinux floppy images

[Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>]

reassign 480935 rootskel-bootfloppy
retitle 480935 Explicit sanity checking needed for build-time problems?
tags 480935 - d-i
thanks

On Monday 16 June 2008, Holger Wansing wrote:
> > Holger: at least this means you can now test if the new syslinux
> > solves your boot problem; please try both the boot_* images in
> > floppy-2.6.24.
>
> I tried the boot images from
> http://people.debian.org/~fjp/tmp/d-i/floppy/.
>
> The 2.6.24 boot floppies (syslinux 3.63 and 3.70) worked well.
> Both behaved the same:
> 	Loading linux - Success
> 	Loading initrd - Success
> 	Then was prompted for root floppy

OK. As it is unlikely that syslinux 3.63+dfsg-2 changed anything here the 
fact that _both_ images work for you means that this probably never was a 
syslinux problem after all, but more likely a klibc/rootskel mismatch or 
something similar.

Maybe we need to tighten version checks here and, if possible, code some 
explicit errors if things do not match. I also saw during my own tests 
today that things can fail rather badly and possibly too silently when 
there are mismatches.

Reassigning to rootskel-bootfloppy as that is the central component here.

Thanks for your testing. Also thanks to Daniel Baumann for his assistance 
with this issue, but then he did get some useful testing of the syslinux 
version in experimental out of it :-)

Cheers,
FJP