[syslinux] isolinux: Generate GPT and Mac bootable images

Matthew Garrett mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Fri Aug 5 20:01:15 PDT 2011


On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 02:48:00PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> Hmmm... as I recall, you can't put a bunch of padding before the xorw
> %bp, %bp... some broken BIOS requires that at offset 0... presumably
> some specific M$ MBR had that instruction first, and someone decided to
> use it as a magic signature.  Sigh.

Well that obviously makes things harder - we need to put ER at offset 0. 
Have you got an example of one of them? I'll try to chase it down and 
see if there's anything that can be done.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org




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