On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 11:32:49PM +0100, Christian Franke wrote: > > > >I don't think it is really practical to support USB drives in > >grub-mkrescue. > >You'd have to require root permissions, which IMO beats the point of having > >a separate script from grub-install in first place. > > It may be useful to create small rescue images which can be later put on > USB key with dd. > (BTW: The "floppy" image actually boots from USB at least on one of my > PC. It appears as hd0).
Yes, but how different would those be from floppy output? As you point out, floppy images work as well. Besides, dd'ing a grub image to that stick would render the rest of the device useless for filesystem data. > The patch also adds a --joliet option, useful to access the long file > names on Windows (which has no RR support). Is there any drawback in using --joliet ? If not, I think it's better to do it by default to avoid "option creep". -- 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
