Re: CVS commit: src/usr.sbin/makefs

[David Young <dyoung%pobox.com@localhost>]

On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 05:51:40PM -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> Module Name:  src
> Committed By: christos
> Date:         Sun May 22 21:51:40 UTC 2011
> 
> Modified Files:
>       src/usr.sbin/makefs: cd9660.c cd9660.h makefs.8
>       src/usr.sbin/makefs/cd9660: cd9660_eltorito.c
> 
> Log Message:
> From Nathan Whitehorn (nwhitehorn at freebsd dot org):
> Add code to generate bootable ISOs on Powermac and CHRP systems.
> Synthesize some partition maps (APM and MBR, respectively) pointing
> to (a) the whole disk, and (b) relevant El Torito boot images that
> have been added by other code. These partition maps are a little
> bit funny looking, but they seem to work. FreeBSD has been using
> this successfully in their release generation on powerpc, as well
> as generating all non-SPARC install media. SPARC support could
> probably be added as an extension of this patch.

This sounds like the job of fdisk or pdisk, not makefs.

Have you tested this on a Power Macintosh or CHRP system?

Dave

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