On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 09:11:04PM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote: > > I wish I could use it on PowerPC to work around the "claim failed" > problem, but I'll still need to link "memdisk" and "cpio" with > grub-mkimage.
I don't understand. How would this work around the problem? > I have a patch for PowerPC, but I think I'll hold it until your patch is > committed. I could change my patch to be more in-sync with i386, in > particular use /boot/grub as the blessed directory. Cool! Could you send it to the list? I'd like to see if it'll work on i386-elf targets. > > I just added it because we don't seem to have a way to define which modules > > should be autoloaded (other than grub.cfg itself). And I'm afraid not > > loading > > it by default will confuse users. I don't know how to improve this, but > > ideas > > are welcome, of course. > > Actually, if biosdisk is a part of the core image, other modules are > preloaded. I don't quite understand the mechanism. Ah. Could be, yes. The mechanism is basicaly that GRUB checks for an *.lst file (I forgot which) which teaches it which dependencies each module has. In core.img build time I don't know, but it's probably the same. -- Robert Millan <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
