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Re: customizing grub-mkrecue images
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Robert Millan |
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Re: customizing grub-mkrecue images |
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Sat, 7 Feb 2009 22:16:26 +0100 |
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On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 08:51:45PM -0800, Colin D Bennett wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 04:14:45 +0100
> "Neal H. Walfield" <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > grub-mkrescue is quite useful, however, I'd like to be able to
> > customize the image it creates a bit more than it currently supports.
> > In particular, I'd like to load another config file at boot time. The
> > attached patch enables this by way of a new option, --configfile.
> >
> > A more general solution to the customization problem would be to load
> > a config file at image compilation time. This could be used to solve
> > my problem. However, as it is an additional level of indirection,
> > perhaps both options would be useful.
> >
> > Thoughts?
>
> You can already do this with the --overlay=DIR option. I do this to
> add fonts, images, and graphical menu themes to the resulting ISO image
> in addition to my custom grub.cfg.
>
> Your option --configfile option does make the case when you only want
> to include your own grub.cfg file easier, by not requiring you to
> create a directory hierarchy of DIR/boot/grub/ to contain grub.cfg
> first.
I don't like the current interface very much, but --configfile sounds too
ad-hoc (if we go this way we could end up adding --fontfile et al).
How about an option that adds an arbitrary file to $prefix ?
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