Re: customizing grub-mkrecue images

[Colin D Bennett <colin@gibibit.com>]

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On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 04:14:45 +0100
"Neal H. Walfield" <neal@walfield.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> grub-mkrescue is quite useful, however, I'd like to be able to
> customize the image it creates a bit more than it currently supports.
> In particular, I'd like to load another config file at boot time.  The
> attached patch enables this by way of a new option, --configfile.
> 
> A more general solution to the customization problem would be to load
> a config file at image compilation time.  This could be used to solve
> my problem.  However, as it is an additional level of indirection,
> perhaps both options would be useful.
> 
> Thoughts?

You can already do this with the --overlay=DIR option.  I do this to
add fonts, images, and graphical menu themes to the resulting ISO image
in addition to my custom grub.cfg.

Your option --configfile option does make the case when you only want
to include your own grub.cfg file easier, by not requiring you to
create a directory hierarchy of DIR/boot/grub/ to contain grub.cfg
first.

Regards,
Colin

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