Re: mkrescue --overlay missing in grub 1.98

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Dienstag, den 19.01.2010, 22:45 +0800 schrieb Goh Lip:
> 
> version number -  GNU GRUB 1.98~20100101-1ubuntu2
> kernel 2.6.32-10
> 
> 
> Noticed that --overlay for grub-mkrescue is now missing for above 
> version. Also need to specify --output=FILE to create output.
> --output is not a problem,  but
> --overlay may be useful
> 
> Of course, generating rescue on thumb drive is not an issue as grub.cfg 
> can be amended later; iso, not.
> 
> Regards,
> Goh Lip

Just read the --help output more carefully.
--overlay has been replaced by SOURCE
i.e. grub-mkrescue --output=grub.iso overlay1 overlay2...

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Felix Zielcke
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