Re: DVD 1 of squeeze 6.0.1.a not OK?

["Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net>]

Hi,

Rui Ribeiro:
> It is confirmed debian-live-6.0.1-i386-standard.iso is mountable on my
> Macbook.

Oh well. It really seems to be about -partition_offset 16.

Now the producers of isohybrid images have the choice between
mountable on Apple systems or bootable from USB stick on a
Kontron CG2100 "carrier grade server" (as reported in march 2011 on
Syslinux mailing list).


The standards violation is on the side of Apple.

It is technically quite easy to make an image with partition offset
mountable on Apple:
Either by zeroizing the whole MBR, or by setting the start of the
first partition to 0. The latter keeps it bootable from USB stick
on most BIOSes.


Have a nice day :)

Thomas