fai-cd not bootable on some computers

Thomas Lange lange at informatik.uni-koeln.de
Mon Apr 8 13:43:33 CEST 2019


>>>>> On Sun, 7 Apr 2019 19:49:07 +0200, Thomas Lange <lange at informatik.uni-koeln.de> said:

>>>>> On Sun, 07 Apr 2019 18:00:32 +0200, Christian Meyer <c2h5oh at web.de> said:
    > Hi Christian,

    >> b) Since I want to provide my modification to others: Is it possible to
    >> change the boot-flag in the ISO-image before dd-ing it to a pendrive?
    >> Next time I will try something like:
    >> # parted /path/to/fai.iso set 1 boot on
    >> before writing the image.
    > I will try this during the next days.
This seems to work. After using this command, the partition of the iso
file (yes, it really has a partition) has now the flag boot. I did not
test booting on an old computer.

-- 
regards Thomas


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