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Re: [PATCH] Create floppy emulation boot CD with grub-mkimage


From: Robert Millan
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Create floppy emulation boot CD with grub-mkimage
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 23:45:10 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11)

On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 11:03:07PM +0100, Christian Franke wrote:
> 
> Yes, all of my boot CDs work :-)
> 
> Meantime, I found the problem: cdboot.img was > 512 bytes. I forgot to 
> add the ld script necessary for the Cygwin build (-N does not work). 
> Should have checked this first, sorry.

Is this a remaining patch that was needed for Cygwin?

> Now the CD boots, but the result is interesting:
> 
> Real PC: escape to rescue mode, root=hd31, no (cd0) device, no modules.
> 
> VMWare: same.
> 
> VirtualPC: escape to rescue mode, root=cd15, (cd0) exists, normal mode 
> can be started manually.
> 
> VirtualBox: Works as expected.

Interesting, yes.  But no idea what it means :-(

Maybe Bean will know ...

> >If this is a bug, I think it's better to fix it instead of adding 
> >workarounds.
> 
> Yes, but the patch provides the end-user with a simple way to create a 
> fall back boot CD when the normal boot CD does not work for whatever 
> reason. And the patch does not break anything existing.

You could ask Marco or Okuji and see what they think about it.  If they
agree with you, I'll have to shut up ;-)

-- 
Robert Millan

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