Re: Loopback device

[Marco Gerards]

"Yoshinori K. Okuji" <address@hidden> writes:

> On Friday 21 January 2005 01:12, Marco Gerards wrote:
>> Here is a patch to add loopback support to GRUB.  Although a lot of
>> people told me they would find it useful, I just wrote it out of
>> boredom without thinking about its use, just to figure out how hard
>> it would be.
>
> That's great. That is the very thing I wanted to have.
>
> BTW, I think it is better to make it possible to choose a device type 
> (i.e. if it has a partition table or not). I'm always annoyed with that 
> Linux cannot deal with a hard disk image.

I could add an argument for that.  Such thing is not hard.  But I
don't have a harddisk image around to test this.

Can someone suggest a good image (bochs or so) that has multiple
partitions and filesystems so I can test this?  I prefer ext2.

Thanks,
Marco