From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1JI0td-0002Xf-AG for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 07:09:29 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JI0tc-0002Vo-6J for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 07:09:28 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JI0ta-0002Sq-Ko for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 07:09:27 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JI0ta-0002Sg-Ha for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 07:09:26 -0500 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JI0ta-0003dr-5K for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 07:09:26 -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 1JI0tW-0007Jt-Fc for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:09:22 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JI0rs-0000wp-0o for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:07:40 +0100 Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:07:40 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080124120740.GC2249@thorin> References: <1201124004.20596.24.camel@solid.paris.klabs.be> <20080123222609.GA29822@thorin> <1201134078.20596.61.camel@solid.paris.klabs.be> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1201134078.20596.61.camel@solid.paris.klabs.be> 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: grub disk-image builder. 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, 24 Jan 2008 12:09:28 -0000 On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 01:21:18AM +0100, Franklin PIAT wrote: > I've just had a look at yesterday's commit, which introduces --overlay. > great ! (Debian's Unstable is a few day behind cvs) > > Since I wanted to test splashscreen, I needed to put unicode.pff > (1480KiB) + a tga image (1200KiB uncompressed)... That's why i came up > with hard disk images. > > But now, with RLE'd TGA, JPEG and PNG, 2.88MiB floppy should do in most > case (I haven't tested it). Unfrotunately it can't use more than ~600 kiB without overwriting the vga region (and others), so this is prevented in grub-mkimage. This limitation can be resolved by putting the filesystem at the beginning of the device, and moving our code out of the way, just like we do for normal boot from hard disk. You should be able to do this with grub-install (either on floppy or bigger devices). Does this work for you? -- 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 /.)