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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: |
Sun, 10 Feb 2008 16:14:12 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 02:43:40PM +0100, Christian Franke wrote:
>
> This results in 6 possible image variants:
>
> 1. Floppy: --image-type=floppy
> 2. CD, no emulation: --image-type=cdrom [--emulation=none]
> 3. CD, floppy emulation: --image-type=cdrom --emulation=floppy
> 4. CD, hdd emulation: --image-type=cdrom --emulation=hdd
> 5. USB without partitions: --image-type=superfloppy
> 6. USB with partitions: --image-type=hdd
>
> It may be possible to use the image #1 as image #5.
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.
--
Robert Millan
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- 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 <=
- 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, 2008/02/17
- 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