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with Henrik Carlqvist wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Mar 2025 22:00:39 +0000, Eric Pozharski wrote:
>> can anyone LQ-enabled comment why syslinux is outdated in The
>> Slackware Proper? (From what I see in the changelog, syslinux has
>> invested huge work in UEFI.)
> I have a working LQ account, but that does not help me much to tell why
> syslinux is outdated in Slackware.
I think that I have to apologize here. I didn't expect my grunting
would lead to some serious research (that's not how usenet works!).
I've been proven wrong (again) and I'm sorry.
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> Then someone replies that syslinux 6.x requires a lot of patches.
This may be "serious", "important", "significat", or whatever. But "lot
of" isn't applicable here. Also, I understand you haven't experienced
any significant difficulties going after syslinux-6. That being said,..
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> In the changelog for Slackware 14.1 you can see:
> -8<-------------------------------------
> a/syslinux-4.06-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
> Actually, dropping back from 5.01, which has a bug that prevents extra
> options given at the boot prompt from being passed to the kernel.
> We'll look at this again when 5.02 comes out.
> -8<-------------------------------------
> So a newer version of syslinux has been considered in Slackware, but
> rejected because of bugs.
So, decision has been made -- syslinux-4 is good enough. Otherwise
there is grub. In the context of The Slackware Proper.
Well, I know the drill. Pity that The Sbo is of no help here -- so much
work is duplicated.
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