Re: syslinux progress & reviews

[Lukas Schwaighofer <lukas@schwaighofer.name>]

Hi Thomas,

On Wed, 04 Oct 2017 10:20:13 +0200
"Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> wrote:
> I wonder whether the new binary isohdpfx.bin is byte-identical to the
> tested MBR with the fix:
>    http://www.ludd.ltu.se/~ams/tmp/isohdpfx.bin.170324

I just checked: it is.  So far so good :) .

> Another question is whether the repaired MBR should be offered for
> separate download and whether repairing of older ISOs should be
> advertised in
>   https://www.debian.org/CD/faq/
> as sketched in
>   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=857597#90

I obviously can't decide that.  In any case this should wait a bit
until an updated package is uploaded and tested thoroughly.

Thanks for the warning regarding EFI boot from cdrom with syslinux.

Regards
Lukas