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Re: [PATCH] memdisk + grub-mkrescue
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Robert Millan |
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Re: [PATCH] memdisk + grub-mkrescue |
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Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:02:51 +0100 |
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On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 09:11:04PM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote:
>
> I wish I could use it on PowerPC to work around the "claim failed"
> problem, but I'll still need to link "memdisk" and "cpio" with
> grub-mkimage.
I don't understand. How would this work around the problem?
> I have a patch for PowerPC, but I think I'll hold it until your patch is
> committed. I could change my patch to be more in-sync with i386, in
> particular use /boot/grub as the blessed directory.
Cool! Could you send it to the list? I'd like to see if it'll work on
i386-elf targets.
> > I just added it because we don't seem to have a way to define which modules
> > should be autoloaded (other than grub.cfg itself). And I'm afraid not
> > loading
> > it by default will confuse users. I don't know how to improve this, but
> > ideas
> > are welcome, of course.
>
> Actually, if biosdisk is a part of the core image, other modules are
> preloaded. I don't quite understand the mechanism.
Ah. Could be, yes. The mechanism is basicaly that GRUB checks for an *.lst
file (I forgot which) which teaches it which dependencies each module has.
In core.img build time I don't know, but it's probably the same.
--
Robert Millan
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- [PATCH] memdisk + grub-mkrescue, Robert Millan, 2008/01/21
- Re: [PATCH] memdisk + grub-mkrescue, Pavel Roskin, 2008/01/21
- Re: [PATCH] memdisk + grub-mkrescue, Robert Millan, 2008/01/21
- Re: [PATCH] memdisk + grub-mkrescue, Pavel Roskin, 2008/01/21
- Re: [PATCH] memdisk + grub-mkrescue,
Robert Millan <=
- Re: [PATCH] memdisk + grub-mkrescue, Pavel Roskin, 2008/01/22
- Re: [PATCH] memdisk + grub-mkrescue, Robert Millan, 2008/01/22
- Re: [PATCH] memdisk + grub-mkrescue, Pavel Roskin, 2008/01/23
- Re: [PATCH] memdisk + grub-mkrescue, Robert Millan, 2008/01/23
- Re: [PATCH] memdisk + grub-mkrescue, Pavel Roskin, 2008/01/23
- Re: [PATCH] memdisk + grub-mkrescue, Marco Gerards, 2008/01/23
- Re: [PATCH] memdisk + grub-mkrescue, Pavel Roskin, 2008/01/23
- Re: [PATCH] memdisk + grub-mkrescue, Robert Millan, 2008/01/31
- Re: [PATCH] memdisk + grub-mkrescue, Pavel Roskin, 2008/01/31
- Re: [PATCH] memdisk + grub-mkrescue, Marco Gerards, 2008/01/31