On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 09:39:11PM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > 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".
Could you put that image somewhere? I'll have a look. -- Robert Millan "Be the change you want to see in the world" -- Gandhi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org