[bug#41560] [PATCH 0/8] image: Add MBR based boot support.

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

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 require
> root permissions. To overcome this issue, I used a hack inspired from OpenWrt
> and Buildroot.
>
> As grub-install is in fact a wrapper around grub-mkimage and grub-bios-setup,
> 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

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