On 27.02.2014 22:06, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 04:03:06PM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: >> Or, as an alternative, XFS support could be added to u-boot and/or >> syslinux. Never eliminate the possibility of actually writing code to >> fix problems. All it takes is someone willing to do work ;). > > Right, and as I understand it, there actually _is_ some level of support, > and there was a GSoC project related to it a couple of years ago. > EXTLINUX: Initial XFS filesystem support - 2012-07-21 http://git.kernel.org/cgit/boot/syslinux/syslinux.git/commit/extlinux?id=a126f17f663c438ef264a459fa130951dbac780d EXTLINUX: Add sanity check for XFS filesystems - 2012-07-29 http://git.kernel.org/cgit/boot/syslinux/syslinux.git/commit/extlinux?id=7997877811d9ce99efed65604bba2bae91332c79 Merge branch 'xfs-for-hpa' of git://zytor.com/users/pcacjr/syslinux into merge/elflink/xfs - 2012-11-27 http://git.kernel.org/cgit/boot/syslinux/syslinux.git/commit/extlinux?id=f3cac0e6203c532efc97a6ae8955fc4b79a2b373 extlinux: Also install ldlinux.c32 file on XFS - 2013-01-22 http://git.kernel.org/cgit/boot/syslinux/syslinux.git/commit/extlinux?id=129a5845aec4d6c750c4bddd936f315fb441d2fa Maybe the problem is in the version that is referred, syslinux-4.05-7.fc20 ... 2013-08-05 ... http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=429 & syslinux-4.05-5.el7.x86_64.rpm ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/rhel/beta/7/x86_64/os/Packages/ in contrast to these, syslinux-5.10.tar.xz 04-Jun-2013 ... syslinux-6.02.tar.xz 13-Oct-2013 ... https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/ poma http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/The_Syslinux_Project ... 2013-10-13 : Syslinux 6.02 released. ... 2013-06-04 : Syslinux 5.10 released. ... 2011-12-09 : Syslinux 4.05 released. ... -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct