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...d) } set_32(&sbs->bsHugeSectors, totalsectors); - set_16(&sbs->bsBytesPerSec, SECTOR_SIZE); + set_16(&sbs->bsBytesPerSec, sector_size); set_16(&sbs->bsSecPerTrack, geo.sectors); set_16(&sbs->bsHeads, geo.heads); set_32(&sbs->bsHiddenSecs, geo.start); @@ -292,11 +306,11 @@ static int patch_file_and_bootblock(int fd, const char *dir, int devfd) /* Construct the boot file map */ dprintf("directory inode = %lu\n", (unsigned long)dirst.st_ino); - nsect = (boot_image_len + SECTOR_SIZE - 1) >> SECTOR_SHIFT;...

Hello syslinux, Merry Christmas! These patches will make extlinux work with umounted ext2/3/4 filesystem, for example: $ extlinux -i /dev/sdXN or $ extlinux -i file_block Also it can work with something like: $ extlinux /dev/sdXN --reset-adv or $ extlinux file_block --reset-adv We don't use a new option (I planed to use "-d" but it is already in use), it will check whether the

Hello, Happy New Year! These patches make syslinux/linux support ext2/3/4, and it doesn't require the root privilege, I'd like to add a separate e2fs/syslinux, if that is more appropriate, it should be easy to do that. I put these patches on github so that you can easily get them in case you'd like to test them. (The repo's name is sys_tmp, which avoids confusing others, I will

This set of patches add some support for sector size >512. Currently it fixes extlinux, MBR for GPT and ext partitions. Other code is unaffected. This set of patches has been tested on a read Dell machine running a beta firmware.