Re: Loading modules with an embedded config file seems to fail

[Colin Close]

Thanks for your prompt reply, is this likely to change or is it dictated by 
thge 32k size limit?
Best,
Colin Close

On Thursday 08 Oct 2015 17:15:27 Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 4:55 PM, Colin Close <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I have created an embedded image like this:-
> > chroot "$CHROOTNAME" /usr/bin/grub2-mkimage -d "$GRUB_LIB" -O i386-pc -o 
> > "$GRUB_IMG" -p /boot/grub \-c /ISO/boot/grub/start_cfg  iso9660 biosdisk 
> > test
> > cat "$CHROOTNAME"/"$GRUB_LIB"/boot.img "$CHROOTNAME"/"$GRUB_IMG" > 
> > "$ISOROOTNAME"/boot/grub/grub2-embed_img
> > cat "$CHROOTNAME"/"$GRUB_LIB"/cdboot.img "$CHROOTNAME"/"$GRUB_IMG" > 
> > "$ISOROOTNAME"/boot/grub/grub2-eltorito.img
> >
> > and used the following options with xorriso to build an iso image
> >
> > XORRISO_OPTIONS1=" -b boot/grub/grub2-eltorito.img -no-emul-boot 
> > -boot-info-table --embedded-boot $ISOROOTNAME/boot/grub/grub2-embed_img 
> > --protective-msdos-label"
> >
> > The embedded image contain this start_cfg file
> >
> > if [ "${grub_platform}" == "efi" ]; then
> > search --no-floppy --set=root --fs-uuid '%GRUB_UUID%'
> > set prefix=($root)/boot/grub
> > set efi=1
> > source ($root)/boot/grub/grub.cfg
> > fi
> > insmod part_apple
> > insmod part_bsd
> > insmod part_gpt
> > insmod part_msdos
> > set bios=1
> > set efi=0
> > source ($root)/boot/grub/grub.cfg
> >
> > When I boot the iso in BIOS mode I get the following errors reported
> > Unknown command ` if '
> > Unknown command ` search '
> > Unknown command ` source '
> > Unknown command ` fi '
> > Unknown command ` source '
> >
> 
> Embedded config is processed using rescue parser which does not
> understand compound statements. This has been discussed just recently
> on help-grub. The guy intended to open bug report for misleading
> documentation but apparently never came around to do it.
> 
> > Can anyone help me with this I have tried every possible strategy and 
> > nothing seems to work. Currently the config file is set up so it falls 
> > through to the bios boot and the flags get set right and things do work but 
> > obviously this is not ideal.
> > Best,
> > Colin Close
> > OpenMandriva
> >
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