Follow-up Comment #11, bug #32998 (project grub): +verbatime+ Patch to modify grub-mkrescue which makes the protective partition a mountable one. This exposes the first 32k of the drive image as writable to applications which obey the boundaries of the partition table.
diff -ruN grub-2.00.orig/util/grub-mkrescue.in grub-2.00/util/grub-mkrescue.in --- grub-2.00.orig/util/grub-mkrescue.in 2012-06-14 12:25:07.000000000 -0500 +++ grub-2.00/util/grub-mkrescue.in 2013-03-01 08:08:56.891157131 -0600 @@ -368,7 +368,7 @@ fi # build iso image -"${xorriso}" -as mkisofs -graft-points ${grub_mkisofs_arguments} --protective-msdos-label -o "${output_image}" -r "${iso9660_dir}" --sort-weight 0 / --sort-weight 1 /boot ${source} +"${xorriso}" -as mkisofs -graft-points ${grub_mkisofs_arguments} -partition_offset 16 -o "${output_image}" -r "${iso9660_dir}" --sort-weight 0 / --sort-weight 1 /boot ${source} rm -rf "${iso9660_dir}" rm -f "${embed_img}" _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?32998> _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list Bug-grub@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub