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Mentioned success and failure reports of partition offset

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Thomas Schmitt
2011-04-19 09:10:02 +00:00
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@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ Imaging:
[#partition_offset What is partition offset feature all about?]
[#partition_offset_apple Partition offset bad on Apple ?]
Development:
[#api_specs Where are the APIs of libburnia libraries described ?]
@ -130,6 +132,18 @@ where it eventually can manipulate and augment the MBR.
(See [http://libburnia-project.org/wiki/PartitionOffset Partition Offset Wiki]
for examples.)
There are reports of machines which will not boot from USB stick if
partition offset is 0.
===== Partition offset bad on Apple ? ===== #partition_offset_apple
Apple's "Snow Leopard" operating system refuses to mount Debian CD images
with non-zero partition offset.
The issue is still under investigation. But for now one has to choose
between mountability on Apple "Snow Leopard" or bootability from USB stick
on Kontron CG2100 "carrier grade server".
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