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Move FAT image to a separate partition outside the ISO 9660 file system

nl6720 requested to merge nl6720/archiso:xorriso-boot into master

Support bios.syslinux.eltorito boot mode without bios.syslinux.mbr. bios.syslinux.mbr does not work without bios.syslinux.eltorito because -isohybrid-mbr requires the El Torito boot image.

Support uefi-x64.systemd-boot.esp boot mode without uefi-x64.systemd-boot.eltorito and vice versa. If uefi-x64.systemd-boot.eltorito is used without uefi-x64.systemd-boot.esp, the El Torito boot image will be placed in the ISO 9660 file system as before. Note that an ISO created with only uefi-x64.systemd-boot.eltorito will still be bootable as a "hard disk" on OVMF. OVMF will boot the El Torito image.

This change has the following effect on the partition tables:

  • *.eltorito options add El Torito boot catalog entries. MBR and GPT are not affected.
  • uefi-x64.systemd-boot.esp creates a protective MBR partition table and a GPT table that includes a Linux filesystem data partition for the ISO 9660 volume, an EFI system partition and a Microsoft basic data partition that maps the 300 KiB padding added by xorriso.
  • bios.syslinux.mbr (without uefi-x64.systemd-boot.esp): adds a MBR partition table and maps the ISO 9660 volume as a partition of type 0x83. No GPT is produced.
  • bios.syslinux.mbr (with uefi-x64.systemd-boot.esp): adds an second partition in the MBR (after 0xEE) starting from sector 0 to sector 1 with type 0 and marks it as bootable. GPT is not affected.

Fixes #49 (closed)

Edited by nl6720

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