From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1G7bDf-00040R-T1 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 13:06:19 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G7bDe-0003yf-7g for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 13:06:18 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G7bDc-0003wN-KU for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 13:06:17 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G7bDc-0003wE-FA for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 13:06:16 -0400 Received: from [80.24.127.245] (helo=manazas.ensanjose.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1G7bGJ-0005Ei-Hb for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 13:09:04 -0400 Received: from localhost (manazas.ensanjose.net [127.0.0.1]) by manazas.ensanjose.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88F58D322E for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 19:06:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: from manazas.ensanjose.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (manazas.ensanjose.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 00968-08 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 19:06:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.0.3] (216.Red-88-9-198.dynamicIP.rima-tde.net [88.9.198.216]) by manazas.ensanjose.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E30A2D322B for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 19:06:12 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <44CE3883.4080801@raulete.net> Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 19:06:11 +0200 From: adrian15 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: grub-devel@gnu.org References: <200607271605.k6RG5ru0018055@dell01.dinaserver.com> In-Reply-To: <200607271605.k6RG5ru0018055@dell01.dinaserver.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: grub2+qemu El Torito boot 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: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 17:06:18 -0000 > Hi, > > I've written a script that might be interesting to those who would like to > test GRUB2 in qemu without any use of root privileges. I am one of this. Thank you. > This is a two-stage approach that uses GRUB Legacy to load GRUB2 from a CD > image, which GRUB2 then uses as a hard drive (whole device, no partition > table). This is effectively native El Torito, except that GRUB Legacy handles > the initial boot. It's a pity that GRUB2 does not handle ElTorito itself yet. > Oh, and I wasn't able to get this to work with GRUB 1.94: I'm using a cvs > pull that is a few hours old, since 1.94 seems to go into rescue mode no > matter what I do. It's pity because i only have grub 1.94 at hand. I will try it nevertheless. adrian15