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From: P@draigBrady.com
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Loopback device
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 12:38:35 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41F0F7CB.5010201@draigBrady.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mzv3vdvt.fsf@marco.marco-g.com>

Marco Gerards wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Here is a patch to add loopback support to GRUB.  Although a lot of
> people told me they would find it useful, I just wrote it out of
> boredom without thinking about its use, just to figure out how hard it
> would be.
> 
> I could commit it if anyone really wants it.  Can I commit it?

Thanks, that's handy.

Note I'm not sure it's completely necessary though
as I have been using grub on a file for
ages by just doing `losetup /dev/loop0 disk.img`
before running grub.

-- 
Pádraig Brady - http://www.pixelbeat.org
--



  reply	other threads:[~2005-01-21 13:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-21  0:12 Loopback device Marco Gerards
2005-01-21 12:38 ` P [this message]
2005-01-21 12:58   ` Marco Gerards
2005-01-21 13:32 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2005-01-21 14:01   ` P
2005-01-21 14:07   ` Marco Gerards
2005-01-21 14:34     ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2005-01-21 14:50     ` Vincent Pelletier
2005-01-21 14:46   ` Vincent Pelletier
2005-01-21 19:36   ` Marco Gerards
2005-01-21 20:46     ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2005-01-21 21:37       ` Marco Gerards
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-11-05 17:53 guenther.sohler

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