[Top][All Lists]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
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: |
Sun, 17 Feb 2008 14:31:07 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 11:32:49PM +0100, Christian Franke wrote:
> >
> >I don't think it is really practical to support USB drives in
> >grub-mkrescue.
> >You'd have to require root permissions, which IMO beats the point of having
> >a separate script from grub-install in first place.
>
> It may be useful to create small rescue images which can be later put on
> USB key with dd.
> (BTW: The "floppy" image actually boots from USB at least on one of my
> PC. It appears as hd0).
Yes, but how different would those be from floppy output? As you point out,
floppy images work as well.
Besides, dd'ing a grub image to that stick would render the rest of the device
useless for filesystem data.
> The patch also adds a --joliet option, useful to access the long file
> names on Windows (which has no RR support).
Is there any drawback in using --joliet ? If not, I think it's better to do
it by default to avoid "option creep".
--
Robert Millan
<GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call!
<DRM> What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak?
(as seen on /.)
- Re: [PATCH] Create floppy emulation boot CD with grub-mkimage, (continued)
Re: [PATCH] Create floppy emulation boot CD with grub-mkimage, Robert Millan, 2008/02/08
- Re: [PATCH] Create floppy emulation boot CD with grub-mkimage, Christian Franke, 2008/02/08
- Re: [PATCH] Create floppy emulation boot CD with grub-mkimage, Christian Franke, 2008/02/09
- Re: [PATCH] Create floppy emulation boot CD with grub-mkimage, Robert Millan, 2008/02/09
- Re: [PATCH] Create floppy emulation boot CD with grub-mkimage, Pavel Roskin, 2008/02/09
- Re: [PATCH] Create floppy emulation boot CD with grub-mkimage, Christian Franke, 2008/02/10
- Re: [PATCH] Create floppy emulation boot CD with grub-mkimage, Robert Millan, 2008/02/10
- Re: [PATCH] Create floppy emulation boot CD with grub-mkimage, Christian Franke, 2008/02/15
- Re: [PATCH] Create floppy emulation boot CD with grub-mkimage,
Robert Millan <=
- Re: [PATCH] Create floppy emulation boot CD with grub-mkimage, Christian Franke, 2008/02/17
- Re: [PATCH] Create floppy emulation boot CD with grub-mkimage, tsah marco, 2008/02/18