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Bug#497270: debian-cd: includes embedded copies of bootloaders



On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 05:01:30PM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> unblock 497270 by 496869
> thanks
> 
> Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> > At least the embedded copy works on all machines. The version in the
> > archive has problems with QEMU and Intel Macs (see bug#496869).
> 
> ...which is an entirely different problem and has nothing to do with the
> legal promplem to comply with the syslinux license (GPL-2+).
> 

Bug#496869 is a release blocker. We don't want to produce d-i images
that do not work on some machines.

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