[bug#41560] [PATCH 0/8] image: Add MBR based boot support.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com> skribis:

> Until now, only Grub EFI bootloader was supported in (gnu system
> image). Installing Grub EFI is as simple as copying a binary (created with
> grub-mkstandalone) in a dedicated partition.
>
> Now, for MBR based booting, one needs to run grub-install that does require
> root permissions. To overcome this issue, I used a hack inspired from OpenWrt
> and Buildroot.
>
> As grub-install is in fact a wrapper around grub-mkimage and grub-bios-setup,
> it is possible, with some plumbing and using those two tools, to install Grub
> on a raw disk-image, without root permissions.

Amazing!  This is really cool, thank you!

Looking in more detail at the rest now…

Ludo’.