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

[Christian Franke <Christian.Franke@t-online.de>]

Robert Millan wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 07:45:48PM +0100, Christian Franke wrote:
>   
>>    --overlay=DIR           overlay directory DIR in the memdisk image
>>    --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)
>> +  --image-type=TYPE       select floppy, floppycd, or cdrom (default)
>>     
>
> I find this user interface confusing.  How does one know what "floppycd" means?
>
> I think it'd be much easier to understand if this was a separate option,
> something like:
>
> --image-type=TYPE       select floppy or cdrom (default)
> --some-option           explain what it does
>
>   

Good point.

--emulation     create floppy emulation cdrom image

Christian