[syslinux] [PATCH 0/9] linux/syslinux: support ext2/3/4 device

[Robert Yang]

On 01/07/2015 03:47 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 01/05/2015 07:20 PM, Robert Yang wrote:
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>> Hello,
>>
>> After more investigations, I'm a little worried about add the extX support
>> to mtools/syslinux:
>> 1) Its name is mtools/syslinux, can't express the libext2fs.
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> Renaming it is not a problem.

Do you have any suggestion about the new name, please ?

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>> 2) The mtools/syslinux isn't fully functioned, for example, as the code
>> shows:
>>      if (opt.sectors || opt.heads || opt.reset_adv || opt.set_once
>>          || (opt.update_only > 0) || opt.menu_save) {
>>          fprintf(stderr,
>>                  "At least one specified option not yet implemented"
>>                  " for this installer.\n");
>>          exit(1);
>>
>>
>> How about add an e2fs/syslinux, please ?
>
> You'd have to do the same work for that one...

Sorry, I don't quite understand this, did you mean do libext2fs' syslinux
as mtools' syslinux ? I've made libext2fs' syslinux fully functioned.

// Robert

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