bugGNU GRUB - Bugs: bug #31619, Images created by grub-mkrescue...

 
 

You are not allowed to post comments on this tracker with your current authentication level.

bug #31619: Images created by grub-mkrescue are too large to fit on a floppy

Submitter:  Jordan Uggla <jordanu>
Submitted:  Thu 11 Nov 2010 08:55:06 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Severity:  Major
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  None
Status:  Fixed Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  None Originator Name: 
Open/Closed:  Closed Release:  Bazaar - trunk
Release:  Reproducibility:  Every Time
Planned Release:  None

Sun 01 Dec 2013 12:56:34 PM UTC, comment #2: 

grub-mkrescue --help

      --fonts=FONTS          install FONTS [default=unicode]
      --locales=LOCALES      install only LOCALES [default=all]
      --themes=THEMES        install THEMES [default=starfield]

Vladimir Serbinenko <phcoder>
Group administrator
Sun 01 Dec 2013 12:53:04 PM UTC, comment #1: 

The resulting image from

grub-mkrescue --compress=xz -o floppy.vfd

has size 4.4Mb (too large for a floppy) grub 2.0, xorriso 1.3.2

Anthon van der Neut <anthon>
Thu 11 Nov 2010 08:55:06 AM UTC, original submission:  

Even without any additional files grub-mkrescue creates images too large to fit on a floppy disk.

"grub-mkrescue -o test.img" currently creates a 2.4M image.

Jordan Uggla <jordanu>

 

(Note: upload size limit is set to 16384 kB, after insertion of the required escape characters.)

No files currently attached

 

Depends on the following items: None found

Items that depend on this one: None found

 

Carbon-Copy List
  • -email is unavailable- added by anthon (Posted a comment)
  • -email is unavailable- added by phcoder (Updated the item)
  • -email is unavailable- added by jordanu (Submitted the item)
  •  

    There are 0 votes so far. Votes easily highlight which items people would like to see resolved in priority, independently of the priority of the item set by tracker managers.

     

    Follow 2 latest changes.

    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2013-10-28 phcoder StatusNone Fixed
        Open/ClosedOpen Closed

    Back to the top

    Powered by Savane 3.13-758e.
    Corresponding source code