From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1J5PM5-0005TZ-JY for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:38:45 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J5PM4-0005T8-E4 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:38:44 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J5PM2-0005SM-MQ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:38:44 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J5PM2-0005S5-7L for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:38:42 -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 1J5PM1-0007rd-Kx for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:38:41 -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 1J5PLy-0004Wc-Pz for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:38:39 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1J5PLp-0006jz-9O for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:38:29 +0100 Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:38:29 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20071220173829.GB20508@thorin> References: <20071216153046.GA11912@thorin> <87prx5nwd5.fsf@xs4all.nl> <1197915991.2541.3.camel@dv> <87y7bt9mdp.fsf@xs4all.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87y7bt9mdp.fsf@xs4all.nl> 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 17:38:44 -0000 On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 08:01:06PM +0100, Marco Gerards wrote: > Pavel Roskin writes: > > > 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. > > This sounds like a good plan. For the CDROM image, mkisofs can be > used. For non-CD images we could use genext2fs (same interface as genisoimage / mkisofs). -- 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 /.)