Re: moving ata initialisation to a command

[Robert Millan]

On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 08:01:06PM +0100, Marco Gerards wrote:
> Pavel Roskin <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 17:01 +0100, Marco Gerards wrote:
> >> A better solution, IMO, would be changing grub-mkrescue so it doesn't
> >> load all modules.
> >
> > Maybe grub-mkrescue should create a filesystem?  Even FAT should be
> > fine.  This way, it will be possible to load problematic modules from
> > the filesystem.  The only problem would be dependency on filesystem
> > making tools.  Fortunately, mtools is quite common.
> 
> This sounds like a good plan.  For the CDROM image, mkisofs can be
> used.

For non-CD images we could use genext2fs (same interface as genisoimage
/ mkisofs).

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