Bug#190392: ITP: grub-disk -- GRUB bootable disk image
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 04:05:24PM +0200, Christian Hammers wrote:
> Hello Robert
Hi,
> Is it
> - a rescue disk with utils?
> - only the /boot/grub directory on an image
Neither, it's a bootable disk that has GRUB in it. This includes
a boot sector and a /boot/grub directory with default options,
but doesn't include any kernel or any rescue operating system in it.
You can do with it all the GRUB console allows: install GRUB on hard
disk, boot an installed OS, browse installed filesystems, etc.
> then I'd suggest to not make an extra package out of it and
> waste 1.4MB for it :-)
It is _not_ taking 1.4 MB. GRUB is very small and the whole disk just
takes 88 KBs.
> Write a 50-line shell skript that
> - makes a filesystem
> - copies /boot/grub
> - copies a given kernel image
> - installes grub
> and put this script into the grub package where everybody
> already misses it...
It's called mkbimage, Jason added it to the grub package some time ago.
All grub-disk does is putting together the files and using mkbimage to
build the disk image. If you feel comfortable with mkbimage, then
grub-disk is probably not for you.
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Robert Millan
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