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

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

> 
>> 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.

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