[Fedora-livecd-list] Possible solution to mbr problem

Alexandre Magaz Graça alexm at asic.udl.cat
Fri Oct 5 08:27:11 UTC 2007


En/na Tim Wood ha escrit:
> I may have a solution on the mbr problem.   livecd-creator and revisor 
> seem to create the mbr for the livecd by copying 
> /usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin to the disk image.  A mbr should be 446 bytes 
> but the mbr on both systems I'm trying to master livecds with is 440 
> bytes.  Could someone (Jonathan?) who is able to create livecds with 
> livecd-creator or revisor check the size of their 
> /usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin?  I suspect it will be 446 bytes.  It may take 
> some futzing to figure out which rpm is corrupted and where it happened 
> (my repository server, somewhere upstream?) so if I talk someone into 
> tarring a copy and posting it to the list it probably be the quickest 
> resolution to my issue...
> 
> Tim
> 
> 
> 
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> On Oct 4, 2007, at 1:44 PM, Jonathan Steffan wrote:
> 
>> Tim Wood wrote:
>>> revisor-2.0.4.3-7.fc8 under Fedora 8 Beta 2
>>>
>>> revisor-2.0.4.1-2.fc7 under Fedora 7
>> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=18042
>> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=18041
>>
>>
>> I know that 2.0.4.3 build is in updates-testing. You could also:
>>
>> http://revisor.fedoraunity.org/documentation/building-revisor-from-source/ 
>>
>>
>> We are working to get a new release done here soon, but I don't have any
>> eta.
>>
>> Jonathan Steffan
>> daMaestro
>>

In my system this file is also 440 bytes and it works. I attach it if 
you want to try it...

Cheers,
Àlex
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