It is confirmed debian-live-6.0.1-i386-standard.iso is mountable on my Macbook.
Have a nice day, Rui On Apr 18, 2011, at 3:40 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > i wrote: >>> i still ponder about the supposed MBR allergy of the Macs. >>> If the allergy theory is right, then that should not mount any more: >>> dd if=debian-6.0.1a-i386-DVD-1.iso bs=2K count=16 >test_mix.iso >>> dd if=debian-6.0.1a-sparc-CD-1.iso bs=2K skip=16 >>test_mix.iso > > Rui Ribeiro: >> I confirm that I cannot mount test_mix.iso. > > This means that none of the differences of the image trees > of genisoimage and xorriso is significant. > It is only about the presence of the isohybrid MBR. > > > The MBR of the Debian image differs in one aspect from MBRs made by > the Syslinux program isohybrid.pl. The first partition does not start > at block 0 but at HDD block 64 (= 32 kB). > The Debian Live images have MBRs where partition 1 starts at 0. > (Probably created by genisoimage and isohybrid.pl.) > > So it would be interesting to see whether they are mountable or not. > The smallest one i can spot is 274 MB: > > > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/current-live/i386/iso-hybrid/debian-live-6.0.1-i386-standard.iso > > > It would be pity if partition offset is indeed to blame. > The feature seems to be help with booting from USB stick on some > machines: > http://syslinux.zytor.com/archives/2011-March/016213.html > > > Have a nice day :) > > Thomas > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
