Greetings, Please know that If the below patch is based against debian-next branch I believe you can commit it yourself see:
http://live.debian.net/manual/unstable/html/live-manual.en.html#665 Thanks. On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 3:56 PM, Maximilian Mehnert < maximilian.mehn...@gmx.de> wrote: > Some BIOSes dont't boot from partitions starting at sector 1024. > Some are even more peculiar and only start from sector 63. > This patch adds an option for the binary_hdd target to manually > configure the partition start. > --- > scripts/build/binary_hdd | 14 ++++++++++++-- > scripts/build/config | 12 +++++++++++- > 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/scripts/build/binary_hdd b/scripts/build/binary_hdd > index c958aff..0ffb20a 100755 > --- a/scripts/build/binary_hdd > +++ b/scripts/build/binary_hdd > @@ -172,7 +172,12 @@ esac > case "${LB_BUILD_WITH_CHROOT}" in > true) > Chroot chroot "parted -s ${FREELO} mklabel > ${PARTITION_TABLE_TYPE}" || true > - Chroot chroot "parted -a optimal -s ${FREELO} mkpart > primary ${PARTITION_TYPE} 0% 100%" || true > + if [ "x${LB_HDD_PARTITION_START}" = "x" ]; then > + Chroot chroot "parted -a optimal -s ${FREELO} > mkpart primary ${PARTITION_TYPE} 0% 100%" || true > + else > + Echo_message "using partition start at > ${LB_HDD_PARTITION_START}" > + Chroot chroot "parted -s ${FREELO} mkpart primary > ${PARTITION_TYPE} ${LB_HDD_PARTITION_START} 100%" || true > + fi > Chroot chroot "parted -s ${FREELO} set 1 boot on" || true > Chroot chroot "parted -s ${FREELO} set 1 lba off" || true > > @@ -184,7 +189,12 @@ case "${LB_BUILD_WITH_CHROOT}" in > > false) > parted -s ${FREELO} mklabel ${PARTITION_TABLE_TYPE} || true > - parted -a optimal -s ${FREELO} mkpart primary > ${PARTITION_TYPE} 0% 100% || true > + if [ "x${LB_HDD_PARTITION_START}" = "x" ]; then > + parted -a optimal -s ${FREELO} mkpart primary > ${PARTITION_TYPE} 0% 100% || true > + else > + Echo_message "using partition start at > ${LB_HDD_PARTITION_START}" > + parted -s ${FREELO} mkpart primary > ${PARTITION_TYPE} ${LB_HDD_PARTITION_START} 100% || true > + fi > parted -s "${FREELO}" set 1 boot on || true > parted -s "${FREELO}" set 1 lba off || true > > diff --git a/scripts/build/config b/scripts/build/config > index fbe9865..fbc66ff 100755 > --- a/scripts/build/config > +++ b/scripts/build/config > @@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ USAGE="${PROGRAM} [--apt apt|aptitude]\n\ > \t [--isohybrid-options OPTION|\"OPTIONS\"]\n\ > \t [--hdd-label LABEL]\n\ > \t [--hdd-size MB]\n\ > +\t [--hdd-partition-start [parted unit, e.g. 63s]\n\ > \t [--iso-application NAME]\n\ > \t [--iso-preparer NAME]\n\ > \t [--iso-publisher NAME]\n\ > @@ -139,7 +140,7 @@ Local_arguments () > > security:,updates:,backports:,binary-filesystem:,binary-images:, > > apt-indices:,bootappend-install:,bootappend-live:,bootappend-live-failsafe:,bootloaders:,checksums:,compression:,config:,zsync:,build-with-chroot:, > > debian-installer:,debian-installer-distribution:,debian-installer-preseedfile:,debian-installer-gui:, > - > > grub-splash:,isohybrid-options:,hdd-label:,hdd-size:,iso-application:,iso-preparer:,iso-publisher:, > + > > grub-splash:,isohybrid-options:,hdd-label:,hdd-size:,hdd-partition-start:,iso-application:,iso-preparer:,iso-publisher:, > > iso-volume:,jffs2-eraseblock:,memtest:,net-root-filesystem:,net-root-mountoptions:, > > net-root-path:,net-root-server:,net-cow-filesystem:,net-cow-mountoptions:,net-cow-path:, > > net-cow-server:,net-tarball:,firmware-binary:,firmware-chroot:,swap-file-path:,swap-file-size:, > @@ -566,6 +567,11 @@ Local_arguments () > shift 2 > ;; > > + --hdd-partition-start) > + LB_HDD_PARTITION_START="${2}" > + shift 2 > + ;; > + > --iso-application) > LB_ISO_APPLICATION="${2}" > shift 2 > @@ -1198,6 +1204,10 @@ LB_HDD_LABEL="${LB_HDD_LABEL}" > # (Default: ${LB_HDD_SIZE}) > LB_HDD_SIZE="${LB_HDD_SIZE}" > > +# \$LB_HDD_PARTITION_START: set start of partition for booting on bios > that expects specific layout (e.g. "63s"). If empty, use optimal layout. > +# (Default: ${LB_HDD_PARTITION_START}) > +LB_HDD_PARTITION_START="${LB_HDD_PARTITION_START}" > + > # \$LB_ISO_APPLICATION: set iso author > # (Default: ${LB_ISO_APPLICATION}) > LB_ISO_APPLICATION="${LB_ISO_APPLICATION}" > -- > 2.5.1 > >
