Bug#695500: d-i-n-i: #695500 is apparently a grub-mkimage (or debian-installer) bug

[Steven Chamberlain]

Hi!

On 06/12/13 13:41, Colin Watson wrote:
> [...] i386-pc
> prefixes the image with diskboot.img, while i386-pc-pxe prefixes the
> image with pxeboot.img.

Prefixes core.img with diskboot.img??   I know that i386-pc-pxe prefixes
with pxeboot.img however.  After that we had this weird thing:

cat $(GRUB_MODDIR)/pxeboot.img $(TEMP_NETBOOT_DIR)/core.img \
		> $(TEMP_NETBOOT_DIR)/$(NETBOOT_PATH)/grub2pxe

As far as I remember, that would produce the same output as if
i386-pc-pxe had been used, except for a sed hack which is applied to
core.img first:

sed -i -e 's/\x02\xb0\xad\x1b/\x03\xb0\xad\x1b/'
$(TEMP_NETBOOT_DIR)/core.img

Since that sed hack is no longer needed as of GRUB 2.00, I've been
waiting for it to migrate to testing, then intended to clean up the
whole thing with this commit:

http://lists.debian.org/1374529181-96367-2-git-send-email-steven@pyro.eu.org

Regards,
-- 
Steven Chamberlain
steven at pyro.eu.org