tag 586701 fixed-upstream thanks In upstream experimental you can install to partitioned loop device. This should do what you ask for On 06/21/2010 08:58 PM, Josh Triplett wrote: > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pkg-grub-devel mailing list > pkg-grub-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-grub-devel > >
-- Regards Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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