Re: Overlaying default grub.cfg makes qemu "fat:" partition inaccessible

2009-03-25 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 13:39 +0100, Neal H. Walfield wrote: > Taking a look at grub-mkrescue, it seems that it creates a > boot/grub/grub.cfg that executes an insmod for each specified module. > It then copies the overlay files overwriting the just-created > grub.cfg. > > The user's grub.cfg should

Re: Overlaying default grub.cfg makes qemu "fat:" partition inaccessible

2009-03-25 Thread Neal H. Walfield
Taking a look at grub-mkrescue, it seems that it creates a boot/grub/grub.cfg that executes an insmod for each specified module. It then copies the overlay files overwriting the just-created grub.cfg. The user's grub.cfg should either be appended to the one created by grub-mkrescue or there should

Re: Overlaying default grub.cfg makes qemu "fat:" partition inaccessible

2009-03-24 Thread Pavel Roskin
Quoting James Collier : In the case of option 1, grub2 boots straight to the menu as expected. Typeing 'c' to get to the prompt then 'ls' at the prompt reveals only the (memdisk) device. It was expected that at least (hd0,1) for the -hda fat: partition would be available Even without the -hda

Overlaying default grub.cfg makes qemu "fat:" partition inaccessible

2009-03-24 Thread James Collier
Hi all, I'm using GRUB2 from svn (r2039) with qemu. Steps I take to reproduce: 1. create an overlay directory e.g. /grub2/overlay 2. populate the directory with overlay/boot overlay/boot/grub overlay/goot/grub/grub.cfg Where grub.cfg contains "some-menuentry" for example I u