grub-devel
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: How important is the MBR partition offset of grub-mkrescue ?


From: Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Subject: Re: How important is the MBR partition offset of grub-mkrescue ?
Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2013 17:32:51 +0100
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20131005 Icedove/17.0.9

> 
>> It's in our git repo in util/
> 
> Yes, i know. But obviously there are older versions around.
> For re-tinkering the image it would be helpful to know
> the options used.
> 
You can retrieve older versions from git history.
> 
> I just collected all xorrisofs options of
>   http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git/tree/util/grub-mkrescue.in
> 
> Just stunning.
> Has all this stuff actually been tested ?
> 
Yes, I've tsted mega-boot image manually an single-boot images are used
in automated testing system.
> 
>> FAT would make it look like most common USB stick.
> 
> You mean a FAT partition with offset 512 bytes towards the
> start of the ISO filesystem ?
>
Probably more, to avoid conflicting with APM and GPT

> But how to keep udev from recognizing the ISO PVD ?
My guess is that FAT rule would take precedence.

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature


reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]