Re: mkbimage, geometry -w, and CVS grub

[Robert Millan]

Hi Yann,

On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 02:07:05PM +0200, Yann Dirson wrote:
> 
> 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 ?

Excuse me, I've been busy lately for this. Should the -w flag be removed?

> 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.

I'll have a look.

-- 
Robert Millan

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