From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1CryOk-0003Ad-V2 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 08:00:23 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CryOh-00039m-H4 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 08:00:19 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CryNq-0002u3-9F for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 07:59:31 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CryNm-0002kc-Py for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 07:59:22 -0500 Received: from [213.94.219.177] (helo=corvil.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1Cry3h-0003w7-HH for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 07:38:38 -0500 Received: from draigBrady.com (pixelbeat.local.corvil.com [172.18.1.170]) by corvil.com (8.12.9/8.12.5) with ESMTP id j0LCcZwS056280 for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 12:38:35 GMT (envelope-from P@draigBrady.com) Message-ID: <41F0F7CB.5010201@draigBrady.com> Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 12:38:35 +0000 From: P@draigBrady.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040124 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <87mzv3vdvt.fsf@marco.marco-g.com> In-Reply-To: <87mzv3vdvt.fsf@marco.marco-g.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by corvil.com id j0LCcZwS056280 Subject: Re: Loopback device X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 13:00:19 -0000 Marco Gerards wrote: > Hi, >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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. --=20 P=E1draig Brady - http://www.pixelbeat.org --