Updated partition offset wike about GRUB experiment

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Thomas Schmitt 2010-09-29 08:55:30 +00:00
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@ -104,10 +104,42 @@ cutting off the first partition_offset blocks of 2 KB:
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Another test was made with GRUB 2 by downloading
{{{
bzr branch http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/grub/trunk/grub
}}}
Before building GRUB 2, the file
{{{
util/grub-mkrescue.in
}}}
was edited to replace in the options of the xorriso command:
{{{
--protective-msdos-label
}}}
by
{{{
-partition_offset 16 -no-pad --no-emul-toc
}}}
Then GRUB 2 was built and installed.
The resulting image from
{{{
./grub-mkrescue -o image.iso
}}}
was put onto USB stick. It passed the same tests on Debian
as above RIPLinux example. It boots to a GRUB prompt.
Due to options -no-pad --no-emul-toc the image is about 300 kB smaller than
the image produced by original grub-mkrescue. Else it would have grown by
about 130 kB.
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Open questions: Open questions:
- Shall the partition of an isohybrid image be marked bootable ? - Shall the partition of an isohybrid image be marked bootable ?
Currently xorriso keeps the 0x80 mark of an eventually imported MBR Currently xorriso keeps the 0x80 mark of an eventually imported MBR
resp. the 0x80 mark which xorriso eventually sets by its own MBR resp. the 0x80 mark which xorriso eventually sets by its own MBR
preparations. preparations.
- If not to be marked bootable: - If not to be marked bootable: