id = 2739
title = "Feature: Emulate GRUB2's initrd16 newc: feature for dynamic initrd generation"
state = "opened"
created_at = "2024-12-21T13:48:13.989Z"
closed_at = "n/a"
labels = ["target: i386"]
url = "https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/2739"
host-os = "n/a"
host-arch = "n/a"
qemu-version = "n/a"
guest-os = "n/a"
guest-arch = "n/a"
description = "n/a"
reproduce = "n/a"
additional = """This feature is used in boot environments like WINPE, where GRUB2 leverages `initrd16` with `newc:` to load `wimboot` and then dynamically create an initrd containing necessary files for booting a Windows PE environment from a WIM image. Emulating this in QEMU would greatly improve the ability to test and debug such setups."""