From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1LmSOi-0005rF-NN for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 08:39:56 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LmSOg-0005pT-HT for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 08:39:54 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LmSOb-0005l5-Kd for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 08:39:54 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=45761 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LmSOb-0005kv-Dr; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 08:39:49 -0400 Received: from mail.dasr.de ([217.69.77.164]:4378) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LmSOb-00005N-2h; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 08:39:49 -0400 Received: from c-24-91-125-189.hsd1.ma.comcast.net ([24.91.125.189] helo=plato.walfield.org.walfield.org) by mail.dasr.de with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LmSO6-0003VY-K9; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:39:18 +0100 Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:39:12 +0100 Message-ID: <874oxhwzdb.wl%neal@walfield.org> From: "Neal H. Walfield" To: The development of GRUB 2 In-Reply-To: <1237932765.14567.19.camel@jcollier-work-laptop> References: <1237932765.14567.19.camel@jcollier-work-laptop> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.14.0 (Africa) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.9 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Goj=F2?=) APEL/10.7 Emacs/22.2 (i486-pc-linux-gnu) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) Cc: Grub-devel@gnu.org Subject: Re: Overlaying default grub.cfg makes qemu "fat:" partition inaccessible 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: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:39:54 -0000 Taking a look at grub-mkrescue, it seems that it creates a boot/grub/grub.cfg that executes an insmod for each specified module. It then copies the overlay files overwriting the just-created grub.cfg. The user's grub.cfg should either be appended to the one created by grub-mkrescue or there should be a way to specify a config file, which the generated grub.cfg loads. Neal