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From: Marco Gerards <mgerards@xs4all.nl>
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Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> writes:

> On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 17:01 +0100, Marco Gerards wrote:
>> A better solution, IMO, would be changing grub-mkrescue so it doesn't
>> load all modules.
>
> Maybe grub-mkrescue should create a filesystem?  Even FAT should be
> fine.  This way, it will be possible to load problematic modules from
> the filesystem.  The only problem would be dependency on filesystem
> making tools.  Fortunately, mtools is quite common.

This sounds like a good plan.  For the CDROM image, mkisofs can be
used.

--
Marco