Re: [PATCH] Old BIOS: start partition at specific place

2015-09-23 Thread Maximilian Mehnert
On 23/09/15 03:04, Richard Nelson wrote: > 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 I did not realize that. Thanks a lot!

Re: [PATCH] Old BIOS: start partition at specific place

2015-09-22 Thread Richard Nelson
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: > Som

[PATCH] Old BIOS: start partition at specific place

2015-09-22 Thread Maximilian Mehnert
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

[PATCH] Old BIOS: start partition at specific place

2015-09-22 Thread Maximilian Mehnert
Some time back in July I've sent a pull request. I'm resending this patch since I find it quite useful and it took me some effort to find out why I could not get some computers to start from live-build USB-Sticks. Is there anything that speaks against including this? If I can improve anything I'll