Re: Installer doesn't find the mirrors
Hello!
On Wed, 2023-05-10 at 10:03 +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> John Paul Adrian Glaubitz:
> > I just don't know how to bless a bootloader located on a FAT partition.
> > I know that xorriso does it and it works on ISO9660 filesystems, but I
> > don't understand how.
>
> xorriso attributes blessing to an alternative HFS+ tree of the ISO.
> This HFS+ tree is advertised by an Apple Partition Map entry. The HFS+
> related code was contributed by Vladimir Serbinenko for use by
> grub-mkrescue. Intended audience are older x86 Macs.
>
> Apple once defined own SUSP additions to ISO 9660:
> https://web.archive.org/web/20000519225244/http://developer.apple.com/technotes/fl/fl_36.html
> No text snippet "bless" is to see there. I'm not experienced enough with
> Apple to tell whether blessing is among the "HFS finder flags".
>
> Whatever, this applies only to ISO 9660, not to FAT.
What's the alternative HFS+ tree of the ISO? Does it write a small HFS+ filesystem
onto the ISO image?
Adrian
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