Bug#575446: grub-rescue-pc: Package contains no longer includes images or info on how to create them

[ael]

Package: grub-rescue-pc
Version: 1.98-1
Severity: important

I have already noted in bug 575085 that this package no longer includes
a floppy image, and that the description is thus wrong.

Further it no longer includes an iso image. 

While I was able to work out how to create a floppy rescue disc,
it seems far less obvious how one is meant to create an CD/DVD iso
image.

I wondered about building an iso of some part of a file system,
loop mounting it, running grub-install on the result, umounting the
modified container and burning that to a CD/DVD. But I suspect that
would not work.

I read the man page for grub-mkisofs. It looked promising, but 
it is far from clear what is intended. Perhaps SOURCE is a file system?
Who knows?

The online manual doesn't mention iso creation at all.
In passing, why isn't that manual included in, say grub-common?
Not everyone has online access.

So this package contains no binaries, no images, and not even a hint
about how to create rescue images or media. So it has no purpose as it
stands. Just adding a simple example of how to create rescue floppy and
one for a rescue iso would mean it has some use.

ael
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.33 (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages grub-rescue-pc depends on:
ii  grub-common                   1.98-1     GRand Unified Bootloader, version 
ii  grub-pc                       1.98-1     GRand Unified Bootloader, version 

grub-rescue-pc recommends no packages.

grub-rescue-pc suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information