Re: [Bug-xorriso] grub-mkrescue does not boot on older Macs as USB stick

2015-12-25 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
25.12.2015 22:44, Andrei Borzenkov пишет: 25.12.2015 20:35, Alexander E. Patrakov пишет: (all of the testing below was actually performed by Robert Jones, I only built the ISOs) 25.12.2015 01:17, Andrei Borzenkov пишет: 23.12.2015 22:37, Alexander E. Patrakov пишет: Bytes 0x3e .. 0x1fe: x86 b

Re: [Bug-xorriso] grub-mkrescue does not boot on older Macs as USB stick

2015-12-25 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
25.12.2015 20:35, Alexander E. Patrakov пишет: > (all of the testing below was actually performed by Robert Jones, I only > built the ISOs) > > 25.12.2015 01:17, Andrei Borzenkov пишет: >> 23.12.2015 22:37, Alexander E. Patrakov пишет: >>> Bytes 0x3e .. 0x1fe: x86 bootstrap code, which is not exec

Re: [Bug-xorriso] grub-mkrescue does not boot on older Macs as USB stick

2015-12-25 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
(all of the testing below was actually performed by Robert Jones, I only built the ISOs) 25.12.2015 01:17, Andrei Borzenkov пишет: 23.12.2015 22:37, Alexander E. Patrakov пишет: Bytes 0x3e .. 0x1fe: x86 bootstrap code, which is not executed and thus is likely not significant. Wanna bet? Co

Re: [Bug-xorriso] grub-mkrescue does not boot on older Macs as USB stick

2015-12-24 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
23.12.2015 22:37, Alexander E. Patrakov пишет: > Bytes 0x3e .. 0x1fe: x86 bootstrap code, which is not executed and thus > is likely not significant. > Wanna bet? Could you test if the attached patch works for you on newer Mac? Note, that it still does not detect EFI bootable USB stick if it is

Re: [Bug-xorriso] grub-mkrescue does not boot on older Macs as USB stick

2015-12-23 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
23.12.2015 23:44, Andrei Borzenkov пишет: OK, it turned out to be not related to xorriso, but for the record ... Mac does not like FAT created by mformat. I can reproduce it easily by creating single MSDOS partition on USB stick of type 0xef size 2880K, formatting it with same options as grub-mk

Re: grub-mkrescue does not boot on older Macs as USB stick

2015-12-23 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
22.12.2015 23:02, Andrei Borzenkov пишет: > I tested stock grub-mkrescue on MacBook 3,1 (late 2007, Core 2 Duo) and > iMac 9.1 (2009, same CPU) as USB stick. Neither boots; moreover, > inserting USB stick when boot manager is shown hangs system (it stops > reacting to mouse/keyboard); if stick is i

Re: [Bug-xorriso] grub-mkrescue does not boot on older Macs as USB stick

2015-12-22 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
23.12.2015 01:02, Andrei Borzenkov пишет: I tested stock grub-mkrescue on MacBook 3,1 (late 2007, Core 2 Duo) and iMac 9.1 (2009, same CPU) as USB stick. Neither boots; moreover, inserting USB stick when boot manager is shown hangs system (it stops reacting to mouse/keyboard); if stick is inserte

grub-mkrescue does not boot on older Macs as USB stick

2015-12-22 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
I tested stock grub-mkrescue on MacBook 3,1 (late 2007, Core 2 Duo) and iMac 9.1 (2009, same CPU) as USB stick. Neither boots; moreover, inserting USB stick when boot manager is shown hangs system (it stops reacting to mouse/keyboard); if stick is inserted during boot it never gets as far as even s

grub-mkrescue does not boot on older Macs as USB stick

2015-12-22 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
I tested stock grub-mkrescue on MacBook 3,1 (late 2007, Core 2 Duo) and iMac 9.1 (2009, same CPU) as USB stick. Neither boots; moreover, inserting USB stick when boot manager is shown hangs system (it stops reacting to mouse/keyboard); if stick is inserted during boot it never gets as far as even s