Re: moving ata initialisation to a command

[Robert Millan]

On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 01:26:31PM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 17:01 +0100, Marco Gerards wrote:
> > A better solution, IMO, would be changing grub-mkrescue so it doesn't
> > load all modules.
> 
> Maybe grub-mkrescue should create a filesystem?  Even FAT should be
> fine.  This way, it will be possible to load problematic modules from
> the filesystem.  The only problem would be dependency on filesystem
> making tools.  Fortunately, mtools is quite common.

I'd prefer to support embedding filesystems in core.img instead.  This
solves the problem for every situation instead of just PC boot media
(e.g. LinuxBIOS ELF payload image).

Anyway, as long as root privileges aren't made necessary, I'm fine with
grub-mkrescue creating a filesystem (one saner than FAT, preferably ;-).

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Robert Millan

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