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From: Martin Rosenau <martin@rosenau-ka.de>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>,  schauba@clemson.edu
Subject: Re: Mounting a virtual hard-disk and booting from it
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:00:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E022DBD.8090004@rosenau-ka.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTinObT2f57TSWxZbgocsHA017zEq4w@mail.gmail.com>

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Hello

I do not think you can run Python scripts from GRUB. A Python
interpreter is a very large program requiring a complete operating
system. It would be very complex to run such scripts from GRUB...

Martin

> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Swapnesh Chaubal <schauba@clemson.edu
> <mailto:schauba@clemson.edu>> wrote:
>
>     Hey folks,
>
>     I use a script from VMWare to read a virtual hard-disk and then
>     mount it to a drive in Linux. How can I boot from this mounted
>     drive using grub (I need to mount the drive before booting to any
>     OS). I could have all the mounting stuff written in a python/bash
>     script. However, is there a way to run that script from GRUB or a
>     GRUB module?
>
>     Thanks,
>     Swapnesh
>
>
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-22 18:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-21 19:02 Mounting a virtual hard-disk and booting from it Swapnesh Chaubal
2011-06-22 13:55 ` Swapnesh Chaubal
2011-06-22 18:00   ` Martin Rosenau [this message]
2011-06-22 20:37     ` Swapnesh Chaubal
2011-06-22 21:52       ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2011-06-24 15:46 ` Lennart Sorensen

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