From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1JHzAU-0002gp-45 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:18:46 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JHzAR-0002ga-SL for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:18:43 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JHzAQ-0002fy-10 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:18:43 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JHzAP-0002fv-Jj for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:18:41 -0500 Received: from smtp-vbr9.xs4all.nl ([194.109.24.29]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JHzAO-0005X8-Uj for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:18:41 -0500 Received: from localhost.localdomain (249-174.surfsnel.dsl.internl.net [145.99.174.249]) by smtp-vbr9.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m0OAIdfq045822 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:18:40 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mgerards@xs4all.nl) From: Marco Gerards To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <1201124004.20596.24.camel@solid.paris.klabs.be> <20080123222609.GA29822@thorin> Mail-Copies-To: mgerards@xs4all.nl Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:19:58 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20080123222609.GA29822@thorin> (Robert Millan's message of "Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:26:09 +0100") Message-ID: <87sl0ny181.fsf@xs4all.nl> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.6-4.9 Subject: Re: grub disk-image builder. 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: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:18:44 -0000 Robert Millan writes: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 10:33:24PM +0100, Franklin PIAT wrote: >> Hello, >> >> For my personal needs, i've written a script to build floppy or >> hard-disk images. >> >> It's very similar to mkgrub-rescue.sh (and slightly based on it), >> except the images are formatted. Therefore it's possible to put >> a grub.cfg and splash images on it. > > It's already possible to put arbitrary files in grub-mkrescue. Is that > what you needed? > > If you find that something is missing in grub-mkrescue, I think it's better > to get it integrated in the same script rather than providing a collection > of utilities. > > grub-mkrescue is only aimed at creating floppies (or CD images, although > we don't support that too well yet). For disks or disk-like media, grub-install > should work. Did you find any drawback or limitation in that method? It's > very useful for us that you tell us, since we can't think of every possible > use case. It would be useful, for testing, if grub-mkrescue can make a floppy/hd image with a filesystem on it. IIRC it can't make hd images yet, right? -- Marco