Re: [PATCH] Create floppy emulation boot CD with grub-mkimage

[Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>]

On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 11:32:49PM +0100, Christian Franke wrote:
> >
> >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.
> 
> It may be useful to create small rescue images which can be later put on 
> USB key with dd.
> (BTW: The "floppy" image actually boots from USB at least on one of my 
> PC. It appears as hd0).

Yes, but how different would those be from floppy output?  As you point out,
floppy images work as well.

Besides, dd'ing a grub image to that stick would render the rest of the device
useless for filesystem data.

> The patch also adds a --joliet option, useful to access the long file 
> names on Windows (which has no RR support).

Is there any drawback in using --joliet ?  If not, I think it's better to do
it by default to avoid "option creep".

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