Bug#564509: closed by Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko <phcoder at gmail.com> (Re: grub2: unable to chainload a disk-/cdrom-image)

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

On 10/18/2010 08:29 AM, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> reopen 564509
> thanks
>
>> Supporting hooking a device hook for this is pretty annoying and it
>> works only with OSes that only use BIOS services (which are only DOS,
>> and some even less used OSes). For this purpose you should use memdisk
>> from syslinux package (works nicely with GRUB)
>
> I did not ask for opinions if this feature could be considered
> annoying or not, I asked for its implementation. If you would have
> read my entire bug report you would have known that I requested this
> feature (1) because I want to boot FreeDOS from a disk image and (2)
> that I currently use memdisk from syslinux-common, but find this
> annoying and believe GRUB2 should provide this feature on its own.
>
>  - Fabian
>
If you supply a patch which implements this without putting an undue
strain on GRUB architecture it can be accepted. Until then FreeDOS is
just zero priority.

-- 
Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko


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