Bug#653406: GRUB2 2 many problems ?

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

On 15.01.2012 22:01, John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell wrote:
>
>> grub-mkrescue images can be dd'ed to floppy when small enough 
>> (--compression=xz --diet AFAIR)
>
> Yes it can.  And you can insmod and boot.  It's just an unusable pain 
> without a dependancy resolver
>
> (which won't dd due to code choices in grub2 additions, rather it will 
> but part b won't find part c - doesn't even try - odd considering it 
> should be in a or b if you ask me, viewing the code that is)   I know 
> that's code isn't in the manual :)
>
> But also "grub-mkrescue" isn't in the upstream that's a debian 
> addition or script or script made immutably in debian C++.
>
grub-mkrescue is in upstream, is intended for floppies (when used with 
xz and some xorriso options), sticks and CDROMs, requires xorriso and 
has no --image-type option.
grub-install is intended for mediums able to hold all extensions 
uncompressed.
> Where's the debian Manual your getting the advice from ?  With that I 
> can answer for em self :)  I did ask :)
>
> Thanks  -- John
>
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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko