isohybrid.pl(1)

isohybrid.pl1

Postprocess iso images for hybrid mode (perl)

Usage

isohybrid.pl [OPTIONS] IMAGE

Overview

Starting in version 3.72, ISOLINUX supports a "hybrid mode" which can be booted from either CD-ROM or from a device which BIOS considers a hard disk or ZIP disk, e.g. a USB key or similar.

To enable this mode, the .iso image needs to be postprecessed with this utility.

Note: isohybrid.pl is a Perl script, a C implementation of the same utility is available as isohybrid(1).

Options

-h

Number of default geometry heads.

-s

Number of default geometry sectors.

-entry

Specify partition entry number (1-4).

-offset

Specify partition offset (default 0).

-type

Specify partition type (default 0x17).

-id

Specify MBR ID (default random).

-forcehd0

Always assume we are loaded as disk ID 0.

-ctrlhd0

Assume disk ID 0 if the Ctrl key is pressed.

-partok

Allow booting from within a partition.

Homepage

More information about the Syslinux project can be found on the homepage at <http://www.syslinux.org/>.

Releases

8 releases since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 6.0
  2. 7
  3. 8–13

Author

isohybrid.pl was written by H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>.

This manual page was written by Daniel Baumann <[email protected]>.

From syslinux-utils 3:6.04~git20190206.bf6db5b4+dfsg1-3.1 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.