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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: |
Mon, 3 Mar 2008 21:46:19 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 10:05:22PM +0100, Christian Franke wrote:
>
> Here a new version of the patch with Joliet enabled always. Should not
> break anything.
>
> Christian
>
> 2008-03-01 Christian Franke <address@hidden>
>
> * util/i386/pc/grub-mkrescue.in: Add --emulation=floppy
> to create a floppy emulation boot CD when non emulation mode
> does not work.
> Enable Joliet CD filesystem extension.
>
>
> --- 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?
--
Robert Millan
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