I am submitting it at the moment as actually I am registered as an Apple software developer.
I would suggest to add this problem and the work around (even with dd, if it may be) in a release note, known bugs or even in a separate txt file in the distro, as this sudden change will surely caught others off guard. Thanks for all the help, Rui Ribeiro On Apr 18, 2011, at 4:19 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 05:15:33PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Rui Ribeiro: >>> It is confirmed debian-live-6.0.1-i386-standard.iso is mountable on my >>> Macbook. >> >> Oh well. It really seems to be about -partition_offset 16. >> >> Now the producers of isohybrid images have the choice between >> mountable on Apple systems or bootable from USB stick on a >> Kontron CG2100 "carrier grade server" (as reported in march 2011 on >> Syslinux mailing list). >> >> The standards violation is on the side of Apple. > > Yup, agreed. Based on that, I'm not really convinced to change what we > are doing here. Rui: I would suggest you file a bug with Apple about > this. > > -- > Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [email protected] > "Every time you use Tcl, God kills a kitten." -- Malcolm Ray > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
