On Mon, 2012-04-23 at 08:37 -0700, Darren Hart wrote: > > On 04/19/2012 03:02 PM, Richard Purdie wrote: > > From: Damien Lespiau <[email protected]> > > > > This allows iso images to be written to usb keys and booted on systems which > > have a BIOS which support this. There is no real down side to tweaking the > > iso > > images in this way. > > I like the idea, but there does appear to be one potential downside. > From the syslinux isolinux.txt documentation: > > "The ISO 9660 filesystem is encapsulated in a partition (which starts > at offset zero, which may confuse some systems.)" > > How many different systems and firmware has this been tested on? > > I think it is a worthwhile patch, but we should be aware of the above in > case a regression is reported. In such an event, it seems a > NO_ISO_HYBRID flag could be set by the machine.conf to revert to the > older behavior.
Agreed, I think we should try this and see if there are any problems reported. I tested a few machines here and it seemed to work on most of them but this was with a USB key, not a CD image. This is probably our more common use case though. Cheers, Richard _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
