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

[Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>]

On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 10:05:22PM +0100, Christian Franke wrote:
> 
> Here a new version of the patch with Joliet enabled always. Should not 
> break anything.
> 
> Christian
> 
> 2008-03-01  Christian Franke  <franke@computer.org>
> 
> 	* util/i386/pc/grub-mkrescue.in: Add --emulation=floppy
> 	to create a floppy emulation boot CD when non emulation mode
> 	does not work.
> 	Enable Joliet CD filesystem extension.
> 
> 

> --- grub2.orig/util/i386/pc/grub-mkrescue.in	2008-02-09 14:02:56.057039500 +0100
> +++ grub2/util/i386/pc/grub-mkrescue.in	2008-03-01 21:52:23.493466900 +0100
> @@ -46,6 +46,7 @@
>    --pkglibdir=DIR         use images from directory DIR instead of ${pkglibdir}
>    --grub-mkimage=FILE     use FILE as grub-mkimage
>    --image-type=TYPE       select floppy or cdrom (default)
> +  --emulation=TYPE        select boot emulation type floppy or none (default)

Uhm maybe it'd be better to mention what the emulation is for.  As it is, user
might wonder what is the appropiate --emulation value for --image-type=floppy,
or even why --emulation=floppy doesn't produce floppy images.

What do you think?

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Robert Millan

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