Bug#503630: grub-pc: Need map command like grub 1

Josh Triplett josh at freedesktop.org
Mon Oct 27 03:49:00 UTC 2008


Package: grub-pc
Severity: wishlist

Grub 1 has a "map" command, which remaps BIOS drive numbers by hooking
int 13.  This allows booting of OSes which have to find themselves on
the first BIOS drive, such as DOS and Windows.

Grub 2 does not have this command.  Thus, if I want to build a utility
USB key which can boot to various OSes, I have to use grub 1, not grub
2.

- Josh Triplett

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.27-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash





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