Apple volume label image

Apple volume label image is a raster image format apparently associated with the MacOS boot loader.

It is a 16-color grayscale format. The height of the image must be exactly 12 pixels.

Software

 * Netpbm: ppmtoapplevol (write-only)
 * rEFIt → vollabel.py

Sample files

 * http://kanotix.acritox.com/files/mac/label.vollabel

Links

 * rEFIt document about volume labels