Re: GRUB on CD

[Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>]

On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 03:11:43PM +0200, Thierry Laronde wrote:
> > 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.

Of course, it would be useful to have blocklist also operate
on files ;)

blocklist (hd0,3)/image
12+34,48+64,...

(see how debugfs does it for ext2fs, for example).  This allows to boot
from a filesystem image inside another partition.  You can do this today,
but you have to start debugfs, get the blocklist, remove indirect inodes,
and insert the large string manually in the boot configuration.  If grub
could do this automatically, this would be nice.

This is filesystem specific. ext2fs is the most important one, of course.

Thanks,
Marcus