From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Wed May 27 04:09:42 2020 Received: (at 41560) by debbugs.gnu.org; 27 May 2020 08:09:42 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48181 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jdr8A-0004pC-En for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 27 May 2020 04:09:42 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:45370) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jdr89-0004p1-3a for 41560@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 27 May 2020 04:09:41 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:33260) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jdr83-0006Bj-PZ; Wed, 27 May 2020 04:09:35 -0400 Received: from [2001:980:1b4f:1:42d2:832d:bb59:862] (port=41058 helo=dundal.peder.onsbrabantnet.nl) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jdr83-0003FZ-1n; Wed, 27 May 2020 04:09:35 -0400 From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen To: Mathieu Othacehe Subject: Re: [bug#41560] [PATCH 0/8] image: Add MBR based boot support. Organization: AvatarAcademy.nl References: <20200527072219.25576-1-othacehe@gnu.org> X-Url: http://AvatarAcademy.nl Date: Wed, 27 May 2020 10:09:31 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20200527072219.25576-1-othacehe@gnu.org> (Mathieu Othacehe's message of "Wed, 27 May 2020 09:22:19 +0200") Message-ID: <87d06pbxz8.fsf@gnu.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 41560 Cc: Mathieu Othacehe , 41560@debbugs.gnu.org X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -3.3 (---) Mathieu Othacehe writes: Hello Mathieu, > Until now, only Grub EFI bootloader was supported in (gnu system > image). Installing Grub EFI is as simple as copying a binary (created with > grub-mkstandalone) in a dedicated partition. > > Now, for MBR based booting, one needs to run grub-install that does requi= re > root permissions. To overcome this issue, I used a hack inspired from Ope= nWrt > and Buildroot. > > As grub-install is in fact a wrapper around grub-mkimage and grub-bios-se= tup, > it is possible, with some plumbing and using those two tools, to install = Grub > on a raw disk-image, without root permissions. Thanks for your amazing piece of work on disk-image; for me this means adding GNU/Hurd support much sooner than I could hope for! What can I say, not only LGTM, but also WFM (on a soon-to-be-reset wip-hurd-vm). Greetings, Janneke --=20 Jan Nieuwenhuizen | GNU LilyPond http://lilypond.org Freelance IT http://JoyofSource.com | Avatar=C2=AE http://AvatarAcademy.com