[syslinux] extlinux reports "./extlinux: path /media/disk doesn't match device /dev/sda4"

[Casual Programmer]

Does syslinux version 3.31-78 still contain the Bug ?
If so, I'd like to
notify the people at openSuSE so they can update to
the most recent
version.

As you can see at
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=354939 I
already asked them to update, then not aware of the
mentioned Bug.

Currently available is
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source/suse/i586/syslinux-3.31-78.i586.rpm

Casual


On Do, 2008-01-24 at 14:41 -0800, H. Peter Anvin
wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > Casual Programmer wrote:
> >> True, but that's no reason to use /dev/sda4
instead,
> >> or am I mistaken ?
> >>
> > 
> > It's certainly going to confuse extlinux, and
that's why you get an 
> > error message.  And no, it really should print out
a better error.
> > 
> 
> Some more background on this... this is a serious
bug in earlier 
> versions of extlinux which has since been fixed,
although the error 
> message is somewhat suboptimal (I just checked in a
better error message 
> and am pushing int out as 3.61-pre5).
> 
> 	-hpa
> 



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