Hi, Joel Lopes Da Silva wrote:
> I tend to want to use those installs on Macs > [...] > Unfortunately, last I checked, only the mini.iso images for Debian > GNU/kFreeBSD were "isohybrid" images. isohybrid usually boots from USB stick by offering an MBR to PC-BIOS. Macs will probably not have PC-BIOS as firmware. They rather want HFS filesystems, or HFS+, or boot equipment for EFI which in case of an USB stick would probably be a FAT partition with some files. Steve McIntyre is currently developing EFI boot support for Debian architecture amd64 (GNU/Linux): http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/efi-development/upload4/ If this would work for your purposes, one would have to apply its production process to Debian kfreebsd. HFS+ can be added to an ISO image as small partition. The image would then be treated with SYSLINUX program isohybrid (option --mac) http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/11285.html?view=349461&posted=1#cmt349461 It is also possible to create a hybrid ISO 9660/HFS+ filesystem by program xorriso (command -hfsplus et.al.). ISO9660/HFS hybrid filesystems can be produced by genisoimage (option -hfs). Certain files in an HFS(+) filesystem need to be marked specially ("blessed") so that the boot firmware uses them at startup. (Maybe one can ask GRUB2 development mailing list for advise on this.) Have a nice day :) Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
