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Ilan Tal (ilan-tal) wrote : Re: [Bug 1507002] Re: "boot error" due to gcc v5 transition

Hi Jose,
Many times I did a usb flash drive boot for 15.10, 64 bit. Only for 15.10
was there a problem. Using dd in place of startup disk creator solved the
problem. So I can't confirm what is said on Ask Ubuntu. There however
nobody seemed to try dd.

Ilan

On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 8:49 PM, Jose Barakat <email address hidden> wrote:

> The workaround described by dragon2fly at AskUbuntu
> (http://askubuntu.com/questions/696797/boot-error-on-live-usb-flash-
> drive-with-15-10) works perfect in Ubuntu 15.10. Unfortunately, the bug
> is still alive.
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1507002
>
> Title:
> "boot error" due to gcc v5 transition
>
> Status in syslinux package in Ubuntu:
> Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> Today I upgraded to Ubuntu 15.10 (wily) from vivid and creating boot
> disks (USB, vfat) stopped working.
>
> I tried my best to find what's the problem, but I couldn't identify
> it. It looks like it's related to LP: #398241 (or the debian bug
> referred there)
>
> Essentially, I did
>
> 1. create empty USB disk
> 2. format as vfat (mkfs -t ... -- -F32 -n 'label')
> 3. syslinux --install path/to/image -t 512
> 4. boot a computer with it
> 5. SYSLINUX 6.03 ... "boot error" <-- is displayed
>
> I then downgraded to syslinux 3:6.03+dfsg-5ubuntu1, did the same
> thing, and it worked again.
>
> I believe this is related to ldlinux.sys, ldlinux.c32, linux.c32,
> menu.c32, or libutil.c32, since at least the machine boots to
> syslinux, it simply does not proceed to display my menu.
>
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