Re: Changing disk image boot options without root privileges

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>]

On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 10:31:32PM +0300, Andreas Gustafsson wrote:
> David Young wrote:
> > installboot can run on a disk image directly, unless there has
> > been some regression.
> 
> It works with a file system image, but not with a disk image where the
> boot partition starts at a nonzero offset, which is the typical layout
> on i386 and amd64.

Easy to work around this with dd -- it's basically what it was originally
designed for!

Admittedly the temporary files generated by this workflow may be rather
large.

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