[syslinux] Looking for testers and advise about ISOLINUX within ISO 9660

[Dag Wieers]

On Wed, 8 Oct 2008, Thomas Schmitt wrote:

>> ...>   http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/mkusb.txt
>
> So we would try to perform the job of
> util/isohybrid on the fly during ISO image
> generation.
> My idea is to have three modes:
> auto  recognizes the isolinux.bin hybrid signature
>       and eventually applies the isohybrid feature
> off   disables isohybrid, i.e. CD/DVD bootable only
> on    fails if no isolinux.bin hybrid signature
>       is found (like util/isohybrid does).
>       "hybrid or die !"
>
> Proposals are welcome about which one to make default
> ("auto" or "off" ?).
>
> I'll announce as soon as we have something to show.

I think it is important to understand that the isohybrid functionality is 
fairly new and largely untested on a wide range of hardware. So I would be 
cautious to change the default behaviour to realize later that it fails 
consistently on certain types of hardware.

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