On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 11:37:28PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 01:48:10PM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > > The standard (I have Ecma 119 (= ISO 9660), SUSP, RRIP and El Torito here > > as PDFs, they’re “freeware”) however specifies that the first 32 KiB of > > an ISO 9660 filesystem image are empty and available for, for example, > > bootloaders. > > I found this a very interesting observation. In fact I just implemented > support in GRUB to build USB-capable CD images, using this approach. You > just need to dd them: > > $ dd if=mini.iso of=/dev/sdb > > You will need 1.98~20091221-1 (which I just uploaded to sid), plus attached > patch. > > This takes advantage of the new infrastructure for bootable image generation > (grub-mkrescue), which abstracts the architecture-specific GRUB setup so that > you only need to worry about your grub.cfg and not about image building. >
I have tried that, but it doesn't work. It works fine when used on a CD-ROM, but not when used on an hard-drive. The grub menu is shown correctly, but when selecting the install entry, it freezes on "Loading ...". When trying to boot using commands, it also freezes after entering "kfreebsd /boot/kernel/kfreebsd.gz". -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bsd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
