[bug #18836] ext3 filesystems with large inodes cannot be accessed by grub2 or grub legacy

2007-03-17 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
Update of bug #18836 (project grub): Status:None = Fixed Assigned to:None = okuji Open/Closed:Open = Closed Planned Release:

Re: Bug in GRUB 0.97 (Ubuntu 6.10)

2007-03-12 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Friday 09 March 2007 13:30, Andrew Jeffries wrote: adrian15 wrote: Andrew Jeffries escribió: There's a bug in GRUB 0.97 on Intel 965 Chipsets, the DVD drive doesn't work if booting from GRUB from the hard drive in either Windows Vista or Ubuntu Linux. If I replace GRUB with LILO it

GRUB 1.95 is released

2006-10-15 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
I'm happy to announce the release of GRUB 1.95. This is the sixth of our prereleases leading up to GRUB 2.0. We encourage you to try it, as we have done a significant amount of work towards GRUB 2. Note that this release is mainly for developers who are willing to contribute to our project. If

Re: A20 patch

2006-07-21 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Friday 21 July 2006 11:58, Molle Bestefich wrote: Whom on earth wants to use alpha software as their boot loader? Oh, what a shameless comment. Nobody said such a thing when GRUB was born. If all people were like you, any new technology wouldn't be accepted or developed. Note that nearly

Re: A20 patch

2006-07-19 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Monday 17 July 2006 21:35, Marco Gerards wrote: The A20 code of GRUB Legacy does not work in all cases, as some of you already know. For me the most important thing is that it does not work on my MacBook. Here is a backport from GRUB2's A20 code. The only change it the calling convention

GRUB 1.94 is released

2006-06-04 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
I'm happy to announce the release of GRUB 1.94. This is the fifth of our prereleases leading up to GRUB 2.0. We encourage you to try it, as we have done a significant amount of work towards GRUB 2. Note that this release is mainly for developers who are willing to contribute to our project. If

Re: Google's Summer of Code 2006

2006-05-26 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
Hello, As announced here: http://code.google.com/soc/gnu/about.html GNU GRUB has been allowed to accept Jeroen's application for LVM and RAID support. Congratulations, Jeroen! I thank all the people who submitted applications for GRUB. I hope we will have chances to hack GRUB together,

Re: two host environments

2006-05-21 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Sunday 21 May 2006 05:41, Noah Misch wrote: On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 09:23:45PM +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: This requires two compilers, for the tools and for the standalone binary, and similarly two sets of flags for the compilers. As far as I know, autoconf does not support

two host environments

2006-05-19 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
Hello, In the newer version of GRUB, I've beein using autoconf in a tricky way. We aim at building tools which run on an operating system (such as an installer) as well as building binary images/files which run on a boot environment (such as a boot sector). GRUB wants to support that the user

Re: Google's Summer of Code 2006

2006-05-06 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
This is a reminder. The due date is the 8th day. If you would like to submit/update applications, please hurry up. Most applications require some discussion and rewrite, so we have no time to complete applications if you wait too much. Also, please do not hestiate to contact me (or Hollis)

Re: [PATCH] Check --boot-drive argument

2006-05-02 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 06:29, Pavel Roskin wrote: grub shell crashes if the argument to --boot-drive exceeds 255. 2006-05-02 Pavel Roskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] * grub/main.c (main): Don't allow boot drives exceeding our limit of 256. Using higher numbers will crash grub. Thank

Re: Google's Summer of Code 2006

2006-05-01 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
The acceptance of students' applications has began, so I've updated the GRUB's SoC page: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-soc.html I added an advice for students in this page. If you are interested, have a look, please. Okuji ___ Bug-grub

Google's Summer of Code 2006

2006-04-22 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
Hi all, We participate the Google's Summer of Code 2006 as a part of the GNU Project. If you are interested, please look at the list of our ideas: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-soc.html I will be the main mentor in GRUB, and I expect that Marco will help me mentoring students.

Re: [PATCH] Fix typo in multiboot specification

2006-04-16 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
Jeroen! Nice to see you again. :) On Sunday 16 April 2006 16:06, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: I think it's pretty easy to see that the right offsets are 12-28. 2006-04-16 Jeroen Dekkers [EMAIL PROTECTED] * docs/multiboot.texi: Fix typo in multiboot header offsets of the a.out kludge.

Re: setup to floppy fail if mke2fs done to dos floppy

2006-03-27 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Sunday 19 March 2006 03:31, Marc Desmarais wrote: You have to first do a low level format of the floppy ( fdformat /dev/fd0H1440) before doing a high level format, just for GRUB. No. Your GRUB is simply too old. Okuji ___ Bug-grub mailing list

Re: a bug in grub legacy v0.97

2006-03-21 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Tuesday 21 March 2006 11:40, Vitaly Fertman wrote: There is a bug report conserning grub-0.97 and reiser4 support in grub: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitemitem_id=14874 I have tested it and found that the problem may occur with other filesystems as well. After some

Re: INT 18h BIOS call

2006-01-31 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Wednesday 01 February 2006 00:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings developers; I have sort of a question and feature request. My question is why GRUB stage1 does not use the BIOS INT 18h call on failure so that the BIOS knows that the bootstrap has failed and can either try the next

Re: problem with GRUB and my BIOS?

2006-01-23 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Tuesday 24 January 2006 00:03, Tony and Robyn Lewis wrote: Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: On Saturday 21 January 2006 18:21, Marco Gerards wrote: In that case it is not exported by the BIOS. There is nothing GRUB can do about it... I don't agree. Clearly, his BIOS could boot up the CD itself

Re: problem with GRUB and my BIOS?

2006-01-21 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Saturday 21 January 2006 18:21, Marco Gerards wrote: Tony Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I discovered a possible GRUB problem when booting from the Xen Live CD. I raised a bug there: http://bugzilla.xensource.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=464 The short version seems to be that

Re: help for new call command - yoshinori requested

2006-01-13 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Thursday 12 January 2006 12:35 am, David Seikel wrote: I am a developer. B-) Are you a developer of GRUB? I'm curious about what you are doing with GRUB. Okuji ___ Bug-grub mailing list Bug-grub@gnu.org

Re: help for new call command - yoshinori requested

2006-01-11 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Tuesday 10 January 2006 01:14 pm, adrian15 wrote: Hi Yoshinori (I think you're the only Grub Legacy developer still alive or not focused completely in grub2 :) ) I am trying to develop a new command called CALL in Grub Legacy. You know that GRUB Legacy wouldn't be extended any longer. I'm

Re: [bug #5562] fsys_ntfs.c bug fix: uninitialized content

2006-01-11 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Saturday 07 January 2006 05:23 pm, Gregg C Levine wrote: Follow-up Comment #7, bug #5562 (project grub): Anonymous messages such as this should not be allowed. We should disable all anonymous postings. Done. Okuji ___ Bug-grub mailing list

Re: help for new call command - yoshinori requested

2006-01-11 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 05:43 pm, David Seikel wrote: On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 14:25:09 +0100 Yoshinori K. Okuji [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You know that GRUB Legacy wouldn't be extended any longer. I'm wondering why you want to stick to GRUB Legacy. GRUB 2 is almost usable from my point

Re: simulating dd with grub

2005-10-21 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Friday 21 October 2005 11:24 am, adrian15 wrote: Let's do the following with Linux: dd if=/dev/zero of=./blank.img count=1 bs=446 dd if=./blank.img of=/dev/hda You must not forget the last 2 bytes as well (the signature). My first instict, my first thought was to do: install p

Re: Multiple fallbacks from Cdrom

2005-10-21 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Friday 21 October 2005 11:16 am, adrian15 wrote: I am interested in using multiple fallbacks as described in: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Booting-fallback-systems however I'm not sure if I can use this option from a cdrom or floppy because I do not know if I need to be

GRUB 1.91 is released

2005-10-15 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
I'm happy to announce the release of GRUB 1.91. This is the second of our prereleases leading up to GRUB 2.0. We encourage you to try it, as we have done a significant amount of work towards GRUB 2. Note that this release is mainly for developers who are willing to contribute to our project. If

Re: Adapter for loading GRUB with GRUB.

2005-09-28 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Wednesday 28 September 2005 12:39 am, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: On Tuesday 27 September 2005 08:44 pm, Timothy Baldwin wrote: The original goal is to support loading GRUB from any Linux or multiboot bootloader, so that a OS installation script could install GRUB 2 before rebooting

Re: Adapter for loading GRUB with GRUB.

2005-09-27 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Tuesday 27 September 2005 08:44 pm, Timothy Baldwin wrote: The original goal is to support loading GRUB from any Linux or multiboot bootloader, so that a OS installation script could install GRUB 2 before rebooting the computer for main part of the installer. However it needs code to enable

Re: saved/savedefault working from what version on?

2005-09-26 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Monday 26 September 2005 06:49 pm, Kai Schaetzl wrote: 0.97 from the source, but it still seems to lack that support. Which means if I have line of savedefault 0 it won't create a default file with that entry. I can run grub-set-default but the default file produced will get ignored by

[bug #14620] no countdown even if timeout is set

2005-09-23 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
Follow-up Comment #2, bug #14620 (project grub): Only if you prove that it is really due to the BIOS. Are you sure that your GRUB installation uses the config file you modified? ___ Reply to this item at:

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bug#318539: grub: FTBFS: Invalid storage class for function]

2005-08-08 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Monday 08 August 2005 04:47, Jason Thomas wrote: Here is a patch against grub legacy to make it compile with gcc 4.0 do you think it could be applied to CVS? I think I have already fixed most of them. As for -fwritable-strings, I must say that it was a bad decision in the GCC project,

Re: Grub and watchdog

2005-08-08 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Monday 08 August 2005 10:12, Kjeld Flarup Christensen (ST/LMD) wrote: Now my question is, should such a patch go into the grub source. Or, is it better to put the watchdog into a kernel module, which then is loaded by grub. Is this kernel approach doable at all. For the maximum safety, it

GRUB 1.90 is released

2005-08-07 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
I'm happy to announce the release of GRUB 1.90. This is the first of our prereleases leading up to GRUB 2.0. We encourage you to try it, as we have done a significant amount of work towards GRUB 2. Note that this release is mainly for developers who are willing to contribute to our project. If

[bug #13606] GRUB should allow Linux command-line256 bytes with boot protocol2.02

2005-08-07 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
Follow-up Comment #2, bug #13606 (project grub): I don't think this is a bug. From THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL: THE KERNEL COMMAND LINE The kernel command line has become an important way for the boot loader to communicate with the kernel. Some of its options are also relevant to the

Re: UFS fixes

2005-08-07 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Friday 05 August 2005 22:30, Rink Springer wrote: Would you please consider to merge this back into grub? The code is BSD-licensed, which is identical to the FFS include files at least. Cromwell would prefer to remain as close to grub as possible, and I believe other people could benefit

Re: boot.S - source question

2005-08-02 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Tuesday 02 August 2005 05:51, Martin Baute wrote: The thing is, unless I'm missing something, at this point %si is pointing to the zero byte at the end of notification_message... so where is %si set to a reasonable value, which I have missed? Look at the code before that. It calls a BIOS

Re: grub can't read large initrd on flash hdc1

2005-07-08 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Friday 08 July 2005 01:05, Skahan, Vince wrote: I took a little peek with dumpe2fs, looks like mke2fs calculated a 1k block size with the smaller partition, since there are very few (under 100) files on this partition, would manually setting the block size increase grub's read performance

Re: grub can't read large initrd on flash hdc1

2005-07-08 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
Well, as far as I test the same ext2 parameters, it is working well, and just slow. Using a larger block size always has a better performance for big files on any kind of disk, because it decreases random access. Maybe this is the only reason. Usually, compact flash disks are much slower than

grub wiki is down again

2005-07-02 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
Hello, The GRUB Wiki is down again. I get 500 Internal Server Error. I do not understand why the server often malfunctions. Is there any technical reason? Is it difficult to make it more reliable? Regards, Okuji ___ Bug-grub mailing list

Re: [Info] grub wiki is down again

2005-07-02 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
we read your messages (2005.06.13 and 2005.07.02) about the grub wiki. first of all: are you sure are you writing to correct address? Sure. if yes, please provide us more details about the problem. Just type this in your browser: http://www.autistici.org/grub/ All I get is this: Internal

Re: grub may hang or ignore on bad/modified *.gz

2005-06-22 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
I don't know which version you use, but the current version of GRUB should not try to decompress initrd. It just loads initrd as it is. Okuji ___ Bug-grub mailing list Bug-grub@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub

Re: grub wishlist for increasing blindfriendly usage

2005-06-22 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Wednesday 22 June 2005 12:50, Osvaldo La Rosa wrote: just a trick, maybe a commented option for future menu.lst templates: why ot providing the \007 (speaker beep) at the grub boot: prompt? This sould help people who need such a signal to know that they are at the prompt at that moment. I

Re: grub may hang or ignore on bad/modified *.gz

2005-06-22 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Wednesday 22 June 2005 15:16, Jan Beulich wrote: For plain Linux that's true. For domain 0 of xen, however, this is different, because the domain 0 kernel is already specified as module (XEN itself being a multiboot image), and hence initrd needs to be specified as secondary module (and

Re: grub may hang or ignore on bad/modified *.gz

2005-06-22 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Wednesday 22 June 2005 16:53, Jan Beulich wrote: Certainly, that's needed. But it is unacceptable that I had to find out I need to do this by debugging grub (after having searched for the problem in the kernel and then in XEN for several hours), because it simply didn't tell me that it in

Re: pager from menues doesnt work

2005-06-21 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Tuesday 21 June 2005 19:04, adrian15 wrote: I use cat FILE. I know that Grub has an internal pager. But if you call cat FILE from a menu pager doesn't work (even if you put pager ON before the cat). This is disabled by intention, because the pager may prevent automatic booting, even when

Re: [PATCH] TCG Trusted Boot support

2005-06-01 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Wednesday 01 June 2005 11:28, Seiji Munetoh wrote: (B This is a patch to support Trusted Boot using a security chip on PC (B platform. (B (BI am sorry, but our position is against "trusted computing". Please read this (Barticle: (B (Bhttp://www.gnu.org/philosophy/can-you-trust.html (B

[bug #12516] 'Error 28: Selected item cannot fit into memory' with xen.gz 2.0.5

2005-05-30 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
Update of bug #12516 (project grub): Status:None = Invalid Open/Closed:Open = Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #4: RTFM.

[bug #12822] menu refuses to appear on serial terminal

2005-05-30 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
Update of bug #12822 (project grub): Status:None = Invalid Open/Closed:Open = Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #1: We cannot accept this

[bug #13224] Another Broken Link on www.gnu.org/software/grub

2005-05-30 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
Update of bug #13224 (project grub): Status:None = Invalid Open/Closed:Open = Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #1: Just a temporary

[bug #12245] /etc/mtab dependancy not noted in documentation.

2005-05-30 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
Update of bug #12245 (project grub): Status:None = Wont Fix Open/Closed:Open = Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #1: The dependency on

Re: project manager for GNU GRUB

2005-05-24 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 11:15, gxk wrote: can you tell a little more about stuff to do for PM in this project? Please read this: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grub/2004-04/msg00162.html Thanks, Okuji ___ Bug-grub mailing list

Re: GRUB, NTFS and CyberLink Power Cinema Linux

2005-05-23 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Monday 23 May 2005 17:05, Jeroen Janssen wrote: Anyway, I hope this also means the NTFS code can/will be available in a future GRUB release sometime. I won't incorporate it until someone sends a clean patch with the ChangeLog entries. p.s. on a side note, is there any specific reason that

Re: GRUB 0.97 is released

2005-05-09 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
Hi, On Monday 09 May 2005 15:06, Treutwein Bernhard wrote: The stage2 of the binary distribution fetched from ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-0.97-i386-pc.tar.gz identifies itself as GNU GRUB version 0.96 and not 0.97 :-( Oops. The same mistake again. Please don't mind it. It has no bad

Re: GRUB 0.97 is released

2005-05-09 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Monday 09 May 2005 20:12, Guillermo Gutierrez wrote: will the binaries be updated to reflect the correct version number? I won't. Okuji ___ Bug-grub mailing list Bug-grub@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub

Re: GRUB 0.97 is released

2005-05-09 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Tuesday 10 May 2005 00:20, Jason Thomas wrote: why not? It will stop a lot of future questions! Because there is no way to overwrite files on the server, due to the automatic uploading system. All I can do is to release a new version. I don't want to do it only for this small thing. How is

Re: GRUB Legacy question

2005-05-07 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Friday 29 April 2005 22:06, Tom Carpenter wrote: 1) when Etherboot downloads and runs nbgrub, networking is configured, but nbgrub just loops, printing the following: Address: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Netmask: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Server: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Gateway: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx TFTP error 2

Re: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)

2005-05-07 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Sunday 08 May 2005 00:17, Kurt Newman wrote: (B I've been working on this out for about 1.5 days now. Could anyone lend (B a helpful hand? (B (BIt is not a bug in GRUB, but in Linux. You'd better to ask Fedora's mailing (Blist, instead. (B (BOkuji (B (B

Re: grub fails to properly sync xfs

2005-05-07 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Friday 29 April 2005 23:34, David Everly wrote: (B Under XFS, sync() does not suffice to force data from the log/journal (B onto the disk so that the raw device can see it. With XFS the data is (B only forced into the on-disk journal. Instead, one must freeze to force (B it to completely

Re: Is there a nofb equivalent for grub menu display?

2005-05-07 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Monday 02 May 2005 23:15, Reshat Sabiq wrote: My question is about the grub splash screen. When it's enabled in this setup, no menu, in fact nothing, can be seen during boot, although if you ht space, and then Enter it is equivalent to going to the menu and booting the default option. I

Re: Netbooting - Restricting Nic probing

2005-05-07 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Friday 29 April 2005 02:23, Michael Hearn wrote: Guys - Have trawled through the archives but can't track down any similar issues - atleast reported against recent versions of grub. I'll try and be succinct. I'm netbooting Dell 1650's/2650's/2850's using dhcp/tftp/pxegrub - pxegrub is

[bug #12967] Error 23: Error while parsing number

2005-05-07 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
Update of bug #12967 (project grub): Status:None = Invalid Open/Closed:Open = Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #1: RTFM. Not a bug.

Re: Is there a nofb equivalent for grub menu display?

2005-05-07 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Sunday 08 May 2005 05:20, Reshat Sabiq wrote: (B What i meant is that i have to comment out the following line in (B grub.conf to be able to see anything grub has to show: (B #splashimage=(hd0,3)/grub/splash.xpm.gz (B (BWe *do not have* such a splash screen. We *do not use* grub.conf. Have

Re: Grub Failure when HDD descriptor changes

2005-03-23 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Wednesday 23 March 2005 10:46 am, Molle Bestefich wrote: * lib/device.c (get_drive_geometry): Shuffle BLKGETSIZE and HD_GETGEO so that a correct sector count can be retrieved for device-mapper devices in the stage2 simulator. You should be more explicit. Instead of saying just shuffle,

Re: Grub Failure when HDD descriptor changes

2005-03-22 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Tuesday 22 March 2005 07:31 pm, Molle Bestefich wrote: As you've made clear, GRUB can't possibly know which Linux device maps to which BIOS device. I'd like to know why it attempts to do so anyway, and what the (insane, I guess :-)) algorithm it uses is? Read the source code. Currently,

Re: Grub Failure when HDD descriptor changes

2005-03-22 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Tuesday 22 March 2005 07:41 pm, Molle Bestefich wrote: You could, at boot-up, calculate a md5 hash based on the first sector of every disk. If there's a duplicate hash, load the last sector of every disk also and calculate the md5 based on both. If there's still duplicates, add one more

Re: Grub Failure when HDD descriptor changes

2005-03-22 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Tuesday 22 March 2005 09:41 pm, Molle Bestefich wrote: (B Incidentally, could you perhaps offer your comments on the attached patch? (B (BChangeLog, please. (B (B One thing I can think of myself is to actually calculate the "correct" (B cylinder count with 63 secs/track and 255 heads,

Re: Grub Failure when HDD descriptor changes

2005-03-22 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Tuesday 22 March 2005 10:19 pm, Molle Bestefich wrote: ChangeLog, please. Any preferred length, formatting, ?.. Please check the GNU Coding Standard. You can also get some ideas from the existing ChangeLog entries. Okuji ___ Bug-grub mailing

[bugs #12018] grub-0.96. savedefault feature is not working for me.

2005-03-19 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
Follow-up Comment #11, bugs #12018 (project grub): I have fixed it right now. Thanks. Please write ChangeLog next time. Usually I do not apply any patch if ChangeLog is not written. Okuji ___ Reply to this item at:

Re: grub-md5-crypt password length

2005-03-14 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Monday 14 March 2005 08:56 pm, Roderick A. Anderson wrote: While doing some testing I noticed that the grub-md5-crypt script will not process a password of more than 31 characters properly. At 32 characters the encrypted password comes back blank and if more that 32 characters it just

Re: [dhcwg] RFC 3942 notice: GNU GRUB, DHCP option 150

2005-03-14 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Saturday 12 March 2005 06:38 pm, Ted Lemon wrote: I would like to notify that GNU GRUB uses the DHCP option 150, according to RFC 3942. Thanks for the notification. Would you guys be interested in fixing this so that GRUB uses a vendor-encapsulated option, or do you think this usage

RFC 3942 notice: GNU GRUB, DHCP option 150

2005-03-12 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
Hello, I would like to notify that GNU GRUB uses the DHCP option 150, according to RFC 3942. GNU GRUB Configuration Path This specifies the path-name that contains a configuration for GNU GRUB. The code for this option is 150. Its minimum length is 1. Code LenConfiguration

Re: [bugs #12018] grub-0.96. savedefault feature is not working for me.

2005-03-07 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Monday 07 March 2005 02:29 pm, Treutwein Bernhard wrote: My experimentation some time ago (including a quick browse in the source of stage2.c) yielded that the file default must be at least 10 chars long and should contain the numeric ascii equivalent of the default entry to boot. I don't

Re: Patch Submission Policy

2005-03-01 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Monday 28 February 2005 21:12, Roland McGrath wrote: It's your policy that is questionable. The new GRUB is not usable in production, yet the old GRUB is frozen too early. If you don't like, help the legwork. Okuji ___ Bug-grub mailing list

Patch Submission Policy

2005-02-27 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
[I send this to bug-hurd as well, since I saw an inadequqte post by Roland on bug-hurd.] Hello, Since our (current) patch submission policy was described only on a mailing list, I wrote an article on the GRUB Wiki: http://www.autistici.org/grub/moin.cgi/GrubLegacyPatchSubmission?action=show

[bugs #11808] GRUB 0.96 Compilation Error

2005-02-03 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
Follow-up Comment #5, bugs #11808 (project grub): I checked in another patch. BTW, please use make -k next time to detect all errors. Okuji ___ This item URL is: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitemitem_id=11808

[bugs #11808] GRUB 0.96 Compilation Error

2005-02-02 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
Follow-up Comment #3, bugs #11808 (project grub): I checked in my own patch. If this works for you, I will close this bug. ___ This item URL is: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitemitem_id=11808

[bugs #11808] GRUB 0.96 Compilation Error

2005-02-01 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
Update of bugs #11808 (project grub): Priority: 5 - Normal = 3 - Low Item Group: Action Request = Software Error ___ Follow-up Comment #1: I have checked in a

[bugs #11788] make check: ufs2_stage1_5 is too big (7304 7168).

2005-01-30 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
Update of bugs #11788 (project grub): Status:None = Invalid Open/Closed:Open = Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #1: It is a bug in gcc.

GRUB 0.96 is released

2005-01-29 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
I'm happy to announce the release of GRUB 0.96. This is the seventh of our prereleases leading up to GRUB 1.0. We encourage you to try it, as we have done a lot of bugfixes and feature enhancement since the previous release. The source and binary distributions are available from

Re: [agx@debian.org: Bug#290098: grub: doesn't work with cciss and others]

2005-01-14 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
Jason, do not forget that you can apply patches yourself, if there is no copyright issue obviously. The patch looks very short, so you can integrate it if you think it's ok. Okuji ___ Bug-grub mailing list Bug-grub@gnu.org

[bugs #11312] grub segfaults on (internal) nested function calls on x86_64

2004-12-19 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
This mail is an automated notification from the bugs tracker of the project: GNU GRUB. /**/ [bugs #11312] Latest Modifications: Changes by: Yoshinori K. Okuji [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'Date: Sun

[bugs #11308] cdrom read errors on big files (patch included)

2004-12-19 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
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Re: Should setup be reverted always to pass 'd' to install?

2004-12-05 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Thursday 02 December 2004 22:15, Colin Watson wrote: I used the attached patch (or something very similar; I don't have the exact code any more, but I remember it quite well). No patch is attached... http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grub/2002-12/msg00029.html suggests that this test

Re: USB-Key as floppy

2004-12-02 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Monday 29 November 2004 14:49, Amir Shalem wrote: (B an hack idea I had (not sure if it will really work): (B go over all places in stage2 sources who handle floppy ( 0x80 part) (B and tell it its really an harddisk. (B (B is it possible or not ? (B (BIt really depends on your BIOS. If

Re: Should setup be reverted always to pass 'd' to install?

2004-12-02 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 21:54, Colin Watson wrote: I work on the Ubuntu distribution of GNU/Linux. We have a bug report (https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3007) with two different instances of BIOSes that pass the wrong boot drive in DL to GRUB's Stage 1. Our package is based on

Re: next release

2004-11-16 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Tuesday 16 November 2004 17:29, Feng Shuo wrote: Sorry for my absence, I am too busy these weeks my current work in ICT eats up all my spare time After all, I need it to get money :(. It is the life, unfortunately. ;) If it doesn't matter, please wait me to the end of this week.

Re: next release

2004-11-13 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Saturday 13 November 2004 11:53, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: Any intentions to integrate the new etherboot drivers patch? Quite a lot of new hardware needs it. It is not my job. Please ask Feng. Okuji ___ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

next release

2004-11-12 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
Hello, I'm thinking about publishing next version. This version should be considered a completely feature-frozen release. Even though there are some non-fixed issues (such as full Multiboot-compliance), some people claim that GRUB should have a stable release (i.e. version 1.0). What is your

grub wiki acl

2004-10-23 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
I asked Marco Parrone to set up a basic ACL in the GRUB Wiki. He is the site maintainer of autistici.org. So you must now make your own user to edit pages. This is very easy and instant. This change is mainly for blocking spams. Okuji ___ Bug-grub

Re: Freeze in GRUB Legacy (Was: Re: reiser4 in GRUB)

2004-10-11 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Sunday 10 October 2004 03:04, Stefanus Du Toit wrote: Is there anything more to this than the fact that VBE switching should not happen until the kernel is loaded? Precisely speaking, it's not until the kernel is loaded but until the kernel is booted. Simply, a video mode should switch in

Re: Bug in the Multiboot specification example OS

2004-10-11 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Monday 11 October 2004 00:49, Jason Thomas wrote: done!!! Thank you very much. Okuji ___ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub

Re: grub website volunteer

2004-10-08 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Friday 08 October 2004 01:55, Allen Beye Riddell wrote: (B I'd be happy to help out with the grub website. This is in response (B to the posting on savannah. (B (BThank you for your offer. Could you read the archive of mailing lists (B(bug-grub and grub-devel) to understand what is not

Re: Freeze in GRUB Legacy

2004-10-07 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Thursday 07 October 2004 21:46, Norman B. Robinson wrote: I think it might help the list to post an informational link to GRUB2 Would you like to do that yourself? Okuji ___ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Freeze in GRUB Legacy (Was: Re: reiser4 in GRUB)

2004-10-07 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Monday 04 October 2004 20:02, Stefanus Du Toit wrote: I'm curious -- do you consider proper support for the multiboot graphics fields a new feature? No. It is a bugfix, since Multiboot is a requirement for GRUB. But I have never seen any good implementation of the VESA support. I think I

Re: grub: support 'guest disks'

2004-09-30 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Thursday 30 September 2004 14:37, Marco Gerards wrote: A device name like this could prevent other problems (for example with weird BIOSes) as well. Therefore I thought about implementing this for GRUB 2, not for this reason, but mainly for other reasons I will explain later in my email.

[bugs #494] display time in menu

2004-09-21 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
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[bugs #509] bad Gate A20 handling

2004-09-21 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
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[bugs #1251] USB floppy does not boot

2004-09-21 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
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[bugs #10442] addition to the FAQ (Booting WinXP)

2004-09-20 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
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[bugs #10400] [PATCH] new UI feature: insert script lines into history for 'c' command

2004-09-20 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
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