Re: [PATCH] memdisk + grub-mkrescue

[Pavel Roskin]

Quoting Robert Millan <address@hidden>:

> On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 09:11:04PM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> > I wish I could use it on PowerPC to work around the "claim failed"
> > problem, but I'll still need to link "memdisk" and "cpio" with
> > grub-mkimage.
>
> I don't understand.  How would this work around the problem?

It would work around the problem if appending modules to kernel.elf  
with grub-mkimage could be completely avoided.

> > I have a patch for PowerPC, but I think I'll hold it until your patch is
> > committed.  I could change my patch to be more in-sync with i386, in
> > particular use /boot/grub as the blessed directory.
>
> Cool!  Could you send it to the list?  I'd like to see if it'll work on
> i386-elf targets.

OK, attached.  Sorry, this mailer would break the patch otherwise.

> Ah.  Could be, yes.  The mechanism is basicaly that GRUB checks for an *.lst
> file (I forgot which) which teaches it which dependencies each module has.
>
> In core.img build time I don't know, but it's probably the same.

That explains why biosdisk is not loaded by itself.  No module depends  
on it (which is correct).

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin

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