From: Hugo Mills <hugo@carfax.org.uk>
To: KC <impactoria@googlemail.com>
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Booting with syslinux not possible
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 19:53:25 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140131195325.GC18327@carfax.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52EBFD82.7080900@gmail.com>
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On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 08:46:10PM +0100, KC wrote:
> I do not know if people her are aware of it, but just in case I
> thought it is worth mentioning that currently it is not possible to
> boot with Syslinux bootloader, if the boot partition is on BTRFS.
>
> Perhaps it's worth adding to the wiki.
Are you certain? I've definitely had it working late last year. You
can't boot from a multi-device filesystem with it, but a single-device
FS worked fine for me.
Hugo.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-31 19:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-31 19:46 Booting with syslinux not possible KC
2014-01-31 19:53 ` Hugo Mills [this message]
2014-01-31 22:00 ` Alex
2014-02-04 15:52 ` Blaz Balon
2014-02-04 17:19 ` Alex
2014-02-04 21:30 ` Duncan
2014-02-05 14:57 ` Alex
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2014-01-31 20:32 Chris Murphy
2014-01-31 20:54 Chris Murphy
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