Re: Make grub treat a virtual hard disk as a physical hard disk

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 03:41:51PM -0400,  wrote:
> And who is going to map the VHD file to the physical disk for the system
> running from the VHD file?
> 
> You probably could convince grub to read a filesystem, find a vhd file,
> teach grub how to parse it and figure out how to find the right offsets
> in it to read its filesystem and find the kernel to boot that way, but
> you still have the larger problem of then making that kernel work with
> a VHD file rather than direct hardware access (in fact it would have to
> do both.  Read the physical device and filesystem to get at the vhd and
> read that).
> 
> I really have to wonder what the point of the exercise is?

You should have a look at this project:
http://boot.kernel.org/

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Len Sorensen