Re: Debian images and USB sticks
Hi,
Renato Bispo wrote:
> * Under BIOS at least
More we cannot expect from this setup.
The next experiment would be to create a new partition of type 0xef
(1MiB, with no filesystem on it, should be ok) and to copy the file
/boot/grub/efi.img, which is actually a FAT filesystem image.
Then one would try with an EFI system where legacy BIOS emulation
is disabled or by a qemu with OVMF as firmware
qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -bios /usr/share/ovmf/OVMF.fd -hda /dev/sdc
> PS - I'm curious about this: when I opened the images with an archive
> manager (more specifically with the one that comes with the MATE desktop), I
> saw a directory named "[BOOT]" that contained files with a name along the
> lines of "...no-emulation...". The date of creation was 1969. Pretty weird,
> haha. Do you have any idea about what it is?
Probably a synthetic directory which represents the El Torito boot images.
"...no-emulation..." applies to both, the binary /isolinux/isolinux.bin,
and the FAT image /boot/grub/efi.img. The boot catalog does not contain
file names but only some info fields like intended firmware platform,
bootability, floppy-or-disk emulation, x86 load address, size, block address.
Compare the sizes of /isolinux/isolinux.bin and /boot/grub/efi.img
with the ones reported by the archive manager in the [BOOT] directory.
1969 is a strange date for a Unix-ly system. The lowest possible file
date is supposed to be 1 Jan 1970.
Well, if my theory about synthetic files is true, then the date is
purely synthetic, too.
Have a nice day :)
Thomas
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