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

[Robert Millan]

On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 11:10:31PM +0100, Christian Franke wrote:
> Robert Millan wrote:
> >On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 10:05:22PM +0100, Christian Franke wrote:
> >  
> >...
> >>--- grub2.orig/util/i386/pc/grub-mkrescue.in        2008-02-09 
> >>14:02:56.057039500 +0100
> >>+++ grub2/util/i386/pc/grub-mkrescue.in     2008-03-01 
> >>21:52:23.493466900 +0100
> >>@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@
> >>   --pkglibdir=DIR         use images from directory DIR instead of 
> >>   ${pkglibdir}
> >>   --grub-mkimage=FILE     use FILE as grub-mkimage
> >>   --image-type=TYPE       select floppy or cdrom (default)
> >>+  --emulation=TYPE        select boot emulation type floppy or none 
> >>(default)
> >>    
> >
> >Uhm maybe it'd be better to mention what the emulation is for.  As it is, 
> >user
> >might wonder what is the appropiate --emulation value for 
> >--image-type=floppy,
> >or even why --emulation=floppy doesn't produce floppy images.
> >
> >What do you think?
> >
> >  
> 
> OK, e.g.
> 
> . --emulation=TYPE        select El Torito boot emulation type floppy
> .                         or none (default) (cdrom only)
> 
> 
> Or with the help syntax used by the grub binaries:
> 
> . --emulation=(floppy|none) select El Torito boot emulation type (cdrom 
> only)
> .                           [default=none]

I don't mind either way.  Anyone else does?

-- 
Robert Millan

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