Package: grub-pc Version: 1.98+20100617-1 Severity: wishlist In setting up filesystem images for USB disks, I'd like the ability to install GRUB to a disk image, rather than directly to a USB disk. Specifically, I'd like to point it at a disk image and a separate directory to put /boot/grub in, as grub-install appears to allow. However, grub-install always tries to probe for the device containing the image file rather than just using the image file (no, I *don't* want it to touch my root filesystem's device, thank you; fortunately I ran it as non-root), and grub-setup only supports passing a parenthesized GRUB device name.
I don't mind having to manually specify the filesystem module rather than having GRUB detect which one it needs. I also don't mind specifying some of the things grub-setup detects, such as whether it will boot from a hard disk and need the BIOS disk numbering workaround (it will). Right now, my build process for a USB disk image involves having a real USB disk plugged in during the build, an annoying requirement. - Josh Triplett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
