[syslinux] isohybrid: change default offset to 1 to avoidparted troubles

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Wed Mar 3 11:51:32 PST 2010


On 03/03/2010 09:09 AM, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote:
>>   
> How would you do that? I already stated that I could not use parted to
> resize the partition and I know of no other tool capable of resizing the
> resulting partition. How do you get the space to even be able to add a
> new partition? To be clear, let's say I have my USB key /dev/sdb and
> that I'll put my isohybrid image onto it using dd. Now, I'll then have a
> recursive partition on itself (default offset 0). How to proceed to add
> another partition for persistent storage?
> 

Create a new partition using fdisk.

The filesystem for the hybrid disk is iso9660, so even if you could
resize it, it would be useless as it would still be readonly.

	-hpa




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