On 12/21/18 10:38 AM, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: ...
Debian has patches for both -- neither of which the syslinux developer community has responded to, though given that they've only committed 2 patches in the last year, both of which were in response to a syslinux thread entitled "Is syslinux still worked on? No new commits in git for about one year", things are looking... gloomy.
Based on Eli's above comment it sounds like syslinux may not be a good choice. Its such a critical component of the system, that having a well maintained tool is important.
I chose to use refind (arch package refind-efi) which I've found to work well for my use cases. For my very old computer without EFI I use grub2. Of the 2, IMHO, refind is the superior tool.
Thanks for sharing. gene
