mkbimage, geometry -w, and CVS grub

[Yann Dirson]

I'm stumbling upon the old "geometry -w" issue in mkbimage.  Google found
for me that in http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grub/2003-08/msg00132.html
thierry wrote:

>> grub> geometry  -w  (hd0) 278 16 63
>> 
>> Error 11: Unrecognized device string
>> 
>> ######
>> 
>>    I can't seem to find any documentation about the -w switch, and a
>> quick
>> glance through the grub source didn't turn up any hints either.  
>
>The command was added in patches I made against GRUB 0.92 for supporting
>El Torito and unusual (extended) floppy format.
>
>In this very case, the geometry command is useless but unfortunately GRUB in
>its vanilla version can not boot El Torito (it goes LBA when the emulation
>needs CVS).
>
>So you need to retrieve GRUB 0.92, apply the patches to be found here :
>
>http://alpha.polynum.com/misc/
>
>to have the job done in conjunction with mkbimage.

Current 0.93 CVS as available in Debian sid has the same problem: those
flags are not recognized.  And the given URL points to a now-non-existent
host.

Till now the error did not seem much problematic to me, as I only had to
build 1.44 images.  But I'm not able to build a 2.88 one, and that is more
annoying :(

What's the current status of mkbimage ?

BTW, I have a patched mkbimage 1.17 available at
http://ydirson.free.fr/soft/linux/L4/mkbimage - at this date it fixes bugs
reported as http://bugs.debian.org/239066 and http://bugs.debian.org/242319
using the patches I included in those reports.

Regards,
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