From: Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Create floppy emulation boot CD with grub-mkimage
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 16:14:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080210151412.GA7404@thorin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47AEFF8C.6090505@t-online.de>
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 02:43:40PM +0100, Christian Franke wrote:
>
> This results in 6 possible image variants:
>
> 1. Floppy: --image-type=floppy
> 2. CD, no emulation: --image-type=cdrom [--emulation=none]
> 3. CD, floppy emulation: --image-type=cdrom --emulation=floppy
> 4. CD, hdd emulation: --image-type=cdrom --emulation=hdd
> 5. USB without partitions: --image-type=superfloppy
> 6. USB with partitions: --image-type=hdd
>
> It may be possible to use the image #1 as image #5.
I don't think it is really practical to support USB drives in grub-mkrescue.
You'd have to require root permissions, which IMO beats the point of having
a separate script from grub-install in first place.
--
Robert Millan
<GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call!
<DRM> What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak?
(as seen on /.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-10 15:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-08 18:45 [PATCH] Create floppy emulation boot CD with grub-mkimage Christian Franke
2008-02-08 19:17 ` Robert Millan
2008-02-08 22:03 ` Christian Franke
2008-02-08 22:45 ` Robert Millan
2008-02-08 23:07 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-02-08 23:10 ` Robert Millan
2008-02-08 23:17 ` Christian Franke
2008-02-08 23:35 ` Robert Millan
2008-02-09 11:56 ` Bean
2008-02-09 12:32 ` Robert Millan
2008-02-09 12:38 ` Bean
2008-02-09 16:53 ` Christian Franke
2008-02-09 17:15 ` Bean
2008-02-10 12:17 ` Christian Franke
2008-02-08 23:14 ` Robert Millan
2008-02-08 23:32 ` Christian Franke
2008-02-09 17:04 ` Christian Franke
2008-02-09 21:59 ` Robert Millan
2008-02-09 23:04 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-02-10 13:43 ` Christian Franke
2008-02-10 15:14 ` Robert Millan [this message]
2008-02-15 22:32 ` Christian Franke
2008-02-17 13:31 ` Robert Millan
2008-02-17 15:29 ` Christian Franke
2008-02-18 9:04 ` tsah marco
2008-03-01 21:05 ` Christian Franke
2008-03-03 20:46 ` Robert Millan
2008-03-03 22:10 ` Christian Franke
2008-03-03 22:24 ` Robert Millan
2008-03-07 21:20 ` Christian Franke
2008-04-13 15:13 ` Robert Millan
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2008-03-04 2:11 Kalamatee
2008-03-04 2:12 ` Kalamatee
2008-03-04 9:22 Christian Franke
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