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...the syslinux source tree. Used versions: extlinux 6.03 QEMU emulator version 2.8.1(Debian 1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u2) Help or advice is much appreciated, best regards, Manuel ####################### #!/bin/bash set -o xtrace BASEDIR=/tmp/generate-image IMAGE=${BASEDIR}/image MOUNT=${BASEDIR}/mount PARTITIONOFFSET=$[ 2 ** 20 ] PARTITIONOFFSET_512B_SECTORS=$[ ${PARTITIONOFFSET} / 512 ] PARTITIONLAYOUT="start=${PARTITIONOFFSET_512B_SECTORS}, bootable, type=83, name=system-part" echo "Creating directory ${BASEDIR}" mkdir --parents "${BASEDIR}" echo "Creating sparse file ${I...

...so that BIOS boots it from such media. > # Xorrisos special .iso allows other partitions to be made: I would prefer a statement that -partition_offset 16 creates a partition table which parted is willing to edit. Indeed, the emerging .iso is quite special: http://libburnia-project.org/wiki/PartitionOffset But the refusal of parted with less special images is probably not to expect from all other partition editors. Have a nice day :) Thomas

I got this figured out much faster than I thought I would. Thanks to all of your help, Peter, Mattias, Thomas and Helmut. And Thomas, that 8 partition live OS sounds right up my alley, and I will definitely check it out. The second partition is working well with `parted' and `fdisk', so I am quite pleased. Below is, again, "what I came up with". I tried to integrate each of your