From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1J5PJn-00043v-Fm for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:36:23 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J5PJl-000437-RR for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:36:21 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J5PJj-00041u-Tq for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:36:21 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J5PJj-00041p-Mq for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:36:19 -0500 Received: from [69.60.117.155] (helo=aybabtu.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J5PJj-0007Cu-Aw for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:36:19 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.6] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1J5PJh-0004WI-2D for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:36:17 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1J5PJX-0006hN-3Q for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:36:07 +0100 Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:36:07 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20071220173607.GA20508@thorin> References: <20071216153046.GA11912@thorin> <87prx5nwd5.fsf@xs4all.nl> <1197915991.2541.3.camel@dv> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1197915991.2541.3.camel@dv> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: moving ata initialisation to a command X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:36:22 -0000 On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 01:26:31PM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 17:01 +0100, Marco Gerards wrote: > > A better solution, IMO, would be changing grub-mkrescue so it doesn't > > load all modules. > > Maybe grub-mkrescue should create a filesystem? Even FAT should be > fine. This way, it will be possible to load problematic modules from > the filesystem. The only problem would be dependency on filesystem > making tools. Fortunately, mtools is quite common. I'd prefer to support embedding filesystems in core.img instead. This solves the problem for every situation instead of just PC boot media (e.g. LinuxBIOS ELF payload image). Anyway, as long as root privileges aren't made necessary, I'm fine with grub-mkrescue creating a filesystem (one saner than FAT, preferably ;-). -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.)