[syslinux] Using syslinux on the PMBR of a GPT partition table

[BuraphaLinux Server]

On 10/30/08, Stewart Adam <maillist at diffingo.com> wrote:
> On 10/29/08 12:48 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>
>> Right, OK.  For gptmbr.bin to work, it needs the UUID of the boot
>> partition written into offset 424.  However, there seems to be more that
>> goes wrong in your case.
>>
>> Perhaps you could even get me an image to download that I could poke
>> around with.
>>
>> 	-hpa
>>
> I have a slow upload cap so I won't be able to give you the full 700MB
> image, but it's easy to reproduce the content of the USB key:
>
> 1. Check out Fedora's livecd-tools from Git [1]
> 2. Apply to this [2] patch to tools/livecd-iso-to-disk.sh
> 3. Download the Fedora 10 Snapshot 3 ISO
> 4. Run tools/livecd-iso-to-disk.sh --mactel --format path/to/iso /dev/sdx
>
> [1] http://git.fedoraproject.org/git/?p=hosted/livecd
> [2] http://downloads.diffingo.com/livecd-iso-to-disk.sh-efi.patch
>
> P.S. If there's an easier way to do this (ie if you only need the first
> 10ish MB of the key), let me know and I'll send you the sample.
>
> Thanks,
> Stewart
>
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