Re: grub 0.97 geometry -w mkbimage

[Michael Evans]

I haven't looked at any of the specs, but I would expect any BIOS that provides a virtual drive off of a linearly addressed device (like a CD/DVD) would support LBA access of that device?

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Wade Benson <address@hidden> wrote:

I read the following post:

 

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grub/2003-10/msg00088.html

 

I've checked out the latest mkbimage from svn: grub/util/

 

grub shell doesn't have the geometry -w ...

 

Is there a patch that works for 0.97?

Or a better way to embed grub into an image made with dd and have it recognize the drive properly from an el torito hard disk emulation?

>From the Patch above.
+  "With the `-w' option, values of HEAD, SECTOR, TOTAL_SECTOR are"
+  " written to the BPB of the first sector of DRIVE."

I'm trying to use this image with el torito

 

mkisofs -r -hard-disk-boot -b ${HDD_FILE} -c boot.catalog -o ${ISO_FILE} ${ISO_DIR}

-Wade

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