I'm stumbling upon the old "geometry -w" issue in mkbimage. Google found for me that in http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grub/2003-08/msg00132.html thierry wrote:
>> grub> geometry -w (hd0) 278 16 63 >> >> Error 11: Unrecognized device string >> >> ###### >> >> I can't seem to find any documentation about the -w switch, and a >> quick >> glance through the grub source didn't turn up any hints either. > >The command was added in patches I made against GRUB 0.92 for supporting >El Torito and unusual (extended) floppy format. > >In this very case, the geometry command is useless but unfortunately GRUB in >its vanilla version can not boot El Torito (it goes LBA when the emulation >needs CVS). > >So you need to retrieve GRUB 0.92, apply the patches to be found here : > >http://alpha.polynum.com/misc/ > >to have the job done in conjunction with mkbimage. Current 0.93 CVS as available in Debian sid has the same problem: those flags are not recognized. And the given URL points to a now-non-existent host. Till now the error did not seem much problematic to me, as I only had to build 1.44 images. But I'm not able to build a 2.88 one, and that is more annoying :( What's the current status of mkbimage ? BTW, I have a patched mkbimage 1.17 available at http://ydirson.free.fr/soft/linux/L4/mkbimage - at this date it fixes bugs reported as http://bugs.debian.org/239066 and http://bugs.debian.org/242319 using the patches I included in those reports. Regards, -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Why make M$-Bill richer & richer ? Debian-related: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Support Debian GNU/Linux: Pro: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Freedom, Power, Stability, Gratuity http://ydirson.free.fr/ | Check <http://www.debian.org/> _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub