On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 11:18 AM, Avi Deitcher <[email protected]> wrote: > linux. It is the module "linux". I have no idea what/who/why/where. > > This line works: > > grub-mkimage -O x86_64-efi -i EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI > --config=boot/grub/grub.cfg --prefix='()/boot/grub' --compression=auto disk > part_msdos fat iso9660 > > This line fails: > > grub-mkimage -O x86_64-efi -i EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI > --config=boot/grub/grub.cfg --prefix='()/boot/grub' --compression=auto disk > part_msdos fat iso9660 linux > >
What is your grub version (to be sure we are not chasing something already fixed)? Could you test current GIT? > On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 11:09 AM, Avi Deitcher <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Could it be too *many* modules? (or at least the wrong ones)? >> >> This fails: >> >> cp -r /usr/lib/grub/x86_64-efi ${CD}/boot/grub >> cd ${CD} && grub-mkimage -O x86_64-efi -i EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI >> --config=boot/grub/grub.cfg --prefix='()/boot/grub' --compression=auto disk >> part_msdos part_gpt linux loopback normal configfile search search_label >> true iso9660 efi_uga efi_gop gfxterm gfxmenu gfxterm_menu fat ls cat tar >> echo lsmmap mincmd gzio gettext exitcmd boot fshelp >> >> This succeeds: >> >> cp -r /usr/lib/grub/x86_64-efi ${CD}/boot/grub >> cd ${CD} && grub-mkimage -O x86_64-efi -i EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI >> --config=boot/grub/grub.cfg --prefix='()/boot/grub' --compression=auto disk >> part_msdos fat iso9660 >> >> Huh?? >> >> >> >> On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 11:02 AM, Avi Deitcher <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> The list was really big, so I put it in a gist: >>> https://gist.github.com/deitch/d5c52c29288864e5763c86c09ff7474f >>> >>> I also sorted them and did a diff. >>> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 10:43 AM, Avi Deitcher <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> OK, will do it right now. >>>> >>>> Interesting note: why does mkrescue have --prefix='()/boot/grub' as an >>>> option to mkimage? I get that rather than loading all of the modules into >>>> the grub binary, it puts them on the iso9660 filesystem and then accesses >>>> them that way, but what does '()' signify? That isn't any one known disk >>>> like (memdisk) or (cd0) or (hd0) etc. >>>> >>>> On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 10:40 AM, Andrei Borzenkov <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 10:12 AM, Avi Deitcher <[email protected]> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> > Confirm that grub-mkrescue *does* pass the cmdline options along. >>>>> > Which >>>>> > almost definitely means my mkimage build is slightly (but critically) >>>>> > different than what mkrescue does. >>>>> > >>>>> > I ran mkrescue -v, the mkimage line was: >>>>> > >>>>> > grub-mkimage --directory '/usr/lib/grub/x86_64-efi' --prefix >>>>> > '()/boot/grub' >>>>> > --output 'somefile.efi' --format 'x86_64-efi' --compression 'auto' >>>>> > --config >>>>> > '/tmp/grub.9g6zmZ' 'part_msdos' 'fat' 'iso9660' >>>>> > >>>>> > Much simpler command line, yet it works? >>>>> > >>>>> >>>>> mkerscue makes *full* grub available in ISO, so everything that it >>>>> needs at boot time is autoloaded from image. Image itself only needs >>>>> just enough to access ISO after initial boot. >>>>> >>>>> It would be interesting to find out what is missing in your case. You >>>>> could start with booting rescue into CLI, issuing the same "linux" and >>>>> "initrd" commands and comparing the list of modules (lsmod). Use "set >>>>> pager=1" as module list is likely longer than normal screen. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Avi Deitcher >>>> [email protected] >>>> Follow me http://twitter.com/avideitcher >>>> Read me http://blog.atomicinc.com >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Avi Deitcher >>> [email protected] >>> Follow me http://twitter.com/avideitcher >>> Read me http://blog.atomicinc.com >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Avi Deitcher >> [email protected] >> Follow me http://twitter.com/avideitcher >> Read me http://blog.atomicinc.com > > > > > -- > Avi Deitcher > [email protected] > Follow me http://twitter.com/avideitcher > Read me http://blog.atomicinc.com _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
