Re: [Tails-dev] [review'n'merge:1.2] bugfix/7173-upgrade-sys…

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Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] [review'n'merge:1.2] bugfix/7173-upgrade-syslinux
10/09/14 02:29, intrigeri wrote:
> Hi,
>
> intrigeri wrote (25 Aug 2014 22:51:04 GMT) :
>> => please review'n'merge into devel.
>
>> Note that this upgrade blocks various other things, such as testing
>> UEFI boot as part of our test suite, that I'll complete once this is
>> merged, so it would be appreciated if this was reviewed shortly.
>
> Ping?
>
> Note that I've just updated the branch to syslinux
> 3:6.03~pre20+dfsg-2~bpo70+1.


Sorry, for the delay. Images built from this branch works great on my
UEFI-enabled (and -disabled) hardware but they could boot Tails in UEFI
mode without issue before that as well.

Merged!

>> Also, supposedly the new syslinux fixes things with some versions of
>> VirtualBox, but I did not get any test report about it (except
>> a report that it works with 4.3.14-dfsg-1, regardless of the syslinux
>> version).
>
> Ping too.


I downgraded to Wheezy's 4.1.18-dfsg-2+deb7u3 and, indeed, Tails now
boots! Great! Also marked #7232 as fix committed.

Cheers!