Re: GRUB on CD

[Thierry Laronde <thierry@cri74.org>]

On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 03:08:22PM +0200, Neal H Walfield wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 03:02:55PM +0200, Thierry Laronde wrote:
> > Since I will perhaps have a _little_ spare time during the next month, I
> > plan to work a little on GRUB.
> 
> Hey Thierry, as there is still a week left this month, I figured you
> might be a little bored.  

;) Sure...

> Anyway, if you are still looking for something
> to do, it would be nice to have a function in grub to print out a block
> list when given a partition.  Which is to say, the starting block, the
> length and the end.
> 
> For instance:
> 
> 	(grub) blocklist (hd0,3)
> 	3906945+1953441
> 	(grub)
> 
> This would permit us to remove the partitioning table detection code
> from ext2fs.static for things such as boot floppies, etc.

OK, I will look at that.

Cheers,
-- 
Thierry LARONDE, Centre de Ressources Informatiques, Archamps - France
http://www.cri74.org/