Re: [PATCH] Create floppy emulation boot CD with grub-mkimage

[tsah marco]

Hi Robert and Frankie,

 

I would like to understand is it possible to install grub on usb?

i  would like to do rescue disk,

 

and what are the steps you have done in-order to install grub in the usb,

 

What grub version did you used?

any code change in this version ?

 

i am working on suse 10.3 and fedora 7 linux dist

 

thanks Tsah

 

On Feb 17, 2008 3:31 PM, Robert Millan <address@hidden> wrote:

On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 11:32:49PM +0100, Christian Franke wrote:
> >
> >I don't think it is really practical to support USB drives in
> >grub-mkrescue.
> >You'd have to require root permissions, which IMO beats the point of having
> >a separate script from grub-install in first place.
>
> It may be useful to create small rescue images which can be later put on
> USB key with dd.
> (BTW: The "floppy" image actually boots from USB at least on one of my
> PC. It appears as hd0).

Yes, but how different would those be from floppy output?  As you point out,
floppy images work as well.

Besides, dd'ing a grub image to that stick would render the rest of the device
useless for filesystem data.

> The patch also adds a --joliet option, useful to access the long file
> names on Windows (which has no RR support).

Is there any drawback in using --joliet ?  If not, I think it's better to do
it by default to avoid "option creep".

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