When running isohybrid again it's nice to preserve the MBR id There was some partial code to support setting the id using non existing to_int, but no way to use it. Signed-off-by: Pascal Terjan <pterjan at mandriva.com> --- utils/isohybrid.in | 14 ++++++++------ 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/utils/isohybrid.in b/utils/isohybrid.in index e98c59f..b6c2b6f 100644 --- a/utils/isohybrid.in +++ b/utils/isohybrid.in @@ -100,6 +100,13 @@ if ($c > 1024) { $cc = $c; } +# Preserve id when run again +seek(FILE, 440, SEEK_SET) or die "$0: $file: $!\n"; +read(FILE, $id, 4); +if ($id eq "\x00\x00\x00\x00") { + $id = pack("V", get_random()); +} + # Print the MBR and partition table seek(FILE, 0, SEEK_SET) or die "$0: $file: $!\n"; @@ -117,12 +124,7 @@ if ( length($mbr) > 432 ) { $mbr .= "\0" x (432 - length($mbr)); $mbr .= pack("VV", $de_lba*4, 0); # Offset 432: LBA of isolinux.bin -if (defined($id)) { - $id = to_int($id); -} else { - $id = get_random(); -} -$mbr .= pack("V", $id); # Offset 440: MBR ID +$mbr .= $id; # Offset 440: MBR ID $mbr .= "\0\0"; # Offset 446: actual partition table # Print partition table -- 1.6.2.4