[syslinux] SYSLINUX 3.09-pre2: release candidate
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at orionmulti.com
Thu Jun 16 14:36:33 PDT 2005
Peter Jones wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 14:22 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
>>Hm. I have at least one box on which it (extlinux, in particular) still
>>doesn't work; it unfortunately happens to be the machine on which
>>zytor.com is hosted; worse, it doesn't work correctly with either GRUB
>>(standard RAID1-being-braindead crap)
>
> You might want to look at the grub (and grub-install in particular) in
> FC4. It handles RAID1 /boot now (and RAID1 / if you've got no /boot),
> but only if you're writing the boot sector to the MBRs of the disks (as
> opposed to the partitions).
>
I'd rather spend my time fixing the extlinux bug rather than upgrading
to FC4 just for the sake of Grub. It does, however, once again make me
question the whole value of carrying on with the syslinux project.
-hpa
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