[syslinux] [PATCH 2/2] Preserve MBR id in isohybrid

Pascal Terjan pterjan at mandriva.com
Fri Apr 24 10:00:05 PDT 2009


When running isohybrid again it's nice to preserve the MBR id

There was some partial code to support setting the id using non
existing to_int, but no way to use it.

Signed-off-by: Pascal Terjan <pterjan at mandriva.com>
---
 utils/isohybrid.in |   14 ++++++++------
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/utils/isohybrid.in b/utils/isohybrid.in
index e98c59f..b6c2b6f 100644
--- a/utils/isohybrid.in
+++ b/utils/isohybrid.in
@@ -100,6 +100,13 @@ if ($c > 1024) {
     $cc = $c;
 }
 
+# Preserve id when run again
+seek(FILE, 440, SEEK_SET) or die "$0: $file: $!\n";
+read(FILE, $id, 4);
+if ($id eq "\x00\x00\x00\x00") {
+    $id = pack("V", get_random());
+}
+
 # Print the MBR and partition table
 seek(FILE, 0, SEEK_SET) or die "$0: $file: $!\n";
 
@@ -117,12 +124,7 @@ if ( length($mbr) > 432 ) {
 $mbr .= "\0" x (432 - length($mbr));
 
 $mbr .= pack("VV", $de_lba*4, 0); # Offset 432: LBA of isolinux.bin
-if (defined($id)) {
-    $id = to_int($id);
-} else {
-    $id = get_random();
-}
-$mbr .= pack("V", $id);		# Offset 440: MBR ID
+$mbr .= $id;				# Offset 440: MBR ID
 $mbr .= "\0\0";			# Offset 446: actual partition table
 
 # Print partition table
-- 
1.6.2.4




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