[syslinux] syslinux: Please provide -m and -a options on Linux

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 09/03/2010 09:21 PM, Jeff Sadowski wrote:
> 
> couldn't tis just be done with a couple system calls? using a simple
> dd to copy the mbr.bin and parted to set the active partition.
> Requiring other installed programs to do special tasks isn't asking
> much. Most distros have parted and I don't know of a system without
> dd.
> 

The hard part is figuring out what exactly to do -- consider things like
loopback devices.  Keep in mind that doing the wrong thing behind the
user's back could have extremely serious consequences (Grub's install
scripts conveniently ignore this aspect.)

	-hpa