Relocated the El Torito paragraph in man xorriso
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@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ then
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-e 's/<b>Libburn drives:<\/b>/\ <BR><b>Libburn drives:<\/b>/' \
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-e 's/^-dev /\ \ -dev /' \
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-e 's/^-devices /\ \ -devices /' \
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-e 's/<b>Rock Ridge, POSIX, X\/Open:<\/b>/\ <BR><b>Rock Ridge, POSIX, X\/Open:<\/b>/' \
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-e 's/<b>Rock Ridge, POSIX, X\/Open, and El Torito:<\/b>/\ <BR><b>Rock Ridge, POSIX, X\/Open, and El Torito:<\/b>/' \
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-e 's/<b>Command processing:<\/b>/\ <BR><b>Command processing:<\/b>/' \
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-e 's/<b>Dialog, Readline, Result pager:<\/b>/\ <BR><b>Dialog, Readline, Result pager:<\/b>/' \
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-e 's/<b>Aquiring source and target drive:<\/b>/\ <BR><b>Aquiring source and target drive:<\/b><BR>\ <BR>/' \
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@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
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.\" First parameter, NAME, should be all caps
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.\" Second parameter, SECTION, should be 1-8, maybe w/ subsection
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.\" other parameters are allowed: see man(7), man(1)
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.TH XORRISO 1 "Sep 30, 2008"
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.TH XORRISO 1 "Oct 02, 2008"
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.\" Please adjust this date whenever revising the manpage.
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.\"
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.\" Some roff macros, for reference:
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@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ Creating, Growing, Modifying, Blind Growing
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.br
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Libburn drives
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.br
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Rock Ridge, POSIX, X/Open
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Rock Ridge, POSIX, X/Open, and El Torito
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.br
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Command processing
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.br
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@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ One may use option
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.B -ban_stdio_write
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to surely prevent this risk and to allow only MMC drives.
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.SS
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.B Rock Ridge, POSIX, X/Open:
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.B Rock Ridge, POSIX, X/Open, and El Torito:
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.br
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.B Rock Ridge
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is the name of a set of additional informations which enhance
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@ -342,6 +342,20 @@ xorriso is not named "porriso" because POSIX only guarantees 14 characters
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of filename length. It is the X/Open System Interface standard XSI which
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demands a file name length of up to 255 characters and paths of up to 1024
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characters. Rock Ridge fulfills this demand.
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.PP
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An
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.B El Torito
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boot record connects a boot image, which is a binary program plus some
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other files stored in the ISO image, with the bootstrapping facility of
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contemporary computers.
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The content of the boot image files is not in the scope of El Torito.
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.br
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Most bootable Linux CDs are equipped with ISOLINUX boot images. xorriso is
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able to create or maintain an El Torito object which makes such an image
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bootable. Emulation -as mkisofs supports the example options out of the
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ISOLINUX wiki.
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.br
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The support for other boot image types is sparse.
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.SS
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.B Command processing:
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.br
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@ -397,7 +411,7 @@ to make dialog more comfortable.
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.PP
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Readline is an enhancement for the input line. You may know it already from
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the bash shell. Whether it is available in xorriso depends on the availability
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of package readline-dev at the time when xorriso was built from its sourcecode.
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package readline-dev at the time when xorriso was built from its sourcecode.
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.br
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It allows to move the cursor over the text in the line by help of the
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Leftward and the Rightward arrow key.
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@ -1356,28 +1370,15 @@ For images which will never get to a CD it is safe to use -padding 0 .
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.TP
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.B El Torito bootable ISO images:
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.PP
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An El Torito file object connects a boot image, which is a set of binaries
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and other files in the ISO image, with the bootstrapping facility of
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contemporary computers.
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The content of the boot image files is not in the scope of El Torito.
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.br
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Most bootable Linux CDs are equipped with ISOLINUX boot images. xorriso is
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able to create or maintain an El Torito object which makes such an image
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bootable. Emulation -as mkisofs supports the example options out of the
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ISOLINUX wiki.
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.br
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The support for other boot image types is sparse.
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.br
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Contrary to published specifications many BIOSes will load an El Torito
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object from the first session on media and not from the last one, which
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gets mounted by default. This makes no problems with overwriteable media,
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because they appear to inadverted readers as one single session.
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With multi-session media CD-R[W], DVD-R[W], DVD+R, this implies that the whole
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bootable system has to reside already in the first session and that the last
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session still has to bear all files which the booted system expects after
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eventually mounting the ISO image.
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But with multi-session media CD-R[W], DVD-R[W], DVD+R, it implies that the
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whole bootable system has to reside already in the first session and that
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the last session still has to bear all files which the booted system expects
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after eventually mounting the ISO image.
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.br
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If ISOLINUX is known to be present on media then it is advised to patch it
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when a follow-up session gets written. But one should not rely on the
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@ -1420,7 +1421,7 @@ In that case it suffices to use as bootspec the text "dir=/isolinux" or
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.br
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-boot_image isolinux dir=/boot/isolinux
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.br
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It is possible to do this by several individual settings. E.g.
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which bundles these individual settings:
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-boot_image isolinux bin_path=/boot/isolinux/isolinux.bin
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.br
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@ -1428,10 +1429,11 @@ It is possible to do this by several individual settings. E.g.
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.br
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-boot_image isolinux load_size=2048
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.br
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But that should hardly be necessary.
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bin_path depicts the binary program which is to be started by the BIOS at
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boot time. It is among the files produced by ISOLINUX.
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.br
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A El Torito boot catalog file gets inserted into the ISO image at -commit time.
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Its location is the effective cat_path= .
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An El Torito boot catalog file gets inserted into the ISO image with address
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cat_path at -commit time.
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It is subject to normal -overwrite and -reassure processing if there is already
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a file with the same name.
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