qemu: generating ext3 images including activities

[Erik Garrison]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 09:40:09PM -0500, Daniel Drake wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 9:01 PM, Erik Garrison <erik at laptop.org> wrote:
> > Currently I am stuck because I do not know how to write grub to an image
> > file.  Here is what happens when I try to write the bootloader [3] on a
> > loopback (produced via losetup /dev/loop0 os.img).
> >
> > Any ideas?  Someone out there constructed the qemu-bootable ext3 image
> > in the past.  Would you please step forward and advise?
> 
> Pretty sure I did this before without the image mounted. Unmount the
> loop device and destroy the loop mapping, then in grub do:
> 
> device (hd0) disk.img
> root (hd0,0)
> setup (hd0)

Yeah!  Simple.

Now I at least get grub, but I'm dropped into its shell without the
menu.  Any ideas?

Erik