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Re: Changing disk image boot options without root privileges



> > Isn't there a way for installboot to find the offset itself?
> 
> Perhaps it could be done by sharing the code in disklabel(8) for
> finding the disklabel, and then looking up the offset in the
> disklabel.

installboot(8) for hp300 already checks disklabel(5) to search
"boot" partition, but in the liveimage case we need to check
fdisk/MBR partition. It would be trivial, but not sure if it's
worth enough though.

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Izumi Tsutsui


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