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Re: [PATCH] memdisk + grub-mkrescue
From: |
Pavel Roskin |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] memdisk + grub-mkrescue |
Date: |
Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:11:04 -0500 |
On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 22:06 +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 12:47:06PM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 17:52 +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> > > These two were predestined to get together.. attached patch for their
> > > wedding.
> > >
> > > Comments?
> >
> > I really like the ability to add more things than just modules
> > (especially grub.cfg and fonts). Is that the main motivation for your
> > patch? Or you have some other things in mind?
>
> Yes, that's it. Specially for situations in which there's no other way
> (like netboot images, or in the future coreboot when it works on ELF).
I wish I could use it on PowerPC to work around the "claim failed"
problem, but I'll still need to link "memdisk" and "cpio" with
grub-mkimage.
I have a patch for PowerPC, but I think I'll hold it until your patch is
committed. I could change my patch to be more in-sync with i386, in
particular use /boot/grub as the blessed directory.
> > I don't quite understand why "biosdisk" needs to be mandatory. I guess
> > it's not initialized by default, so that it doesn't conflict with the
> > ata module. But ata can load on top of biosdisk (but not the other way
> > around).
>
> I just added it because we don't seem to have a way to define which modules
> should be autoloaded (other than grub.cfg itself). And I'm afraid not loading
> it by default will confuse users. I don't know how to improve this, but ideas
> are welcome, of course.
Actually, if biosdisk is a part of the core image, other modules are
preloaded. I don't quite understand the mechanism. I think it should
be OK for now. Then we can refine the loading and the initialization.
--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
- [PATCH] memdisk + grub-mkrescue, Robert Millan, 2008/01/21
- Re: [PATCH] memdisk + grub-mkrescue, Pavel Roskin, 2008/01/21
- Re: [PATCH] memdisk + grub-mkrescue, Robert Millan, 2008/01/21
- Re: [PATCH] memdisk + grub-mkrescue,
Pavel Roskin <=
- Re: [PATCH] memdisk + grub-mkrescue, Robert Millan, 2008/01/22
- Re: [PATCH] memdisk + grub-mkrescue, Pavel Roskin, 2008/01/22
- Re: [PATCH] memdisk + grub-mkrescue, Robert Millan, 2008/01/22
- Re: [PATCH] memdisk + grub-mkrescue, Pavel Roskin, 2008/01/23
- Re: [PATCH] memdisk + grub-mkrescue, Robert Millan, 2008/01/23
- Re: [PATCH] memdisk + grub-mkrescue, Pavel Roskin, 2008/01/23
- Re: [PATCH] memdisk + grub-mkrescue, Marco Gerards, 2008/01/23
- Re: [PATCH] memdisk + grub-mkrescue, Pavel Roskin, 2008/01/23
- Re: [PATCH] memdisk + grub-mkrescue, Robert Millan, 2008/01/31
- Re: [PATCH] memdisk + grub-mkrescue, Pavel Roskin, 2008/01/31