On Fri, 2009-07-03 at 01:29 +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > > It doesn't apply in loader/i386/pc/chainloader.c at all. > Ok, I'll rediff.
Take your time. Actually, the chainloader patch refers to "disk->parition" (misspelled "partition"), so i doubt that it was even compile tested. > > I think some parts could be split and applied separately. > I'll look but afair it's not possible without breaking something We'll see when we have a working patch. > > I don't think > > there are any objections against supporting nested partitions. > Yes but I thought someone may have comments like "let's shave ths part > from the kernel". The patch doesn't increase the core.img because > increase of kernel size is compensated by pc.mod/bsdlabel.mod split. > It the cases when bsdlabel.mod is used usually no modules like raid or > lvm are used Such objections may be raised once there is a patch that compiles. Distributors must consider worst case scenarios. > > But I > > think it would be better to support letters for BSD partitions if it's > > not too hard. > It's done. THe patch treats 'a' and 1 completely alike Good! > >> It changes sufficiently a > >> lot to need a peer review and I need for clear network naming support > >> (I plan to use a syntax like (ftp,192.168.1.1,21,user,pass)/grub.cfg ) > > > > I think the networking is better split from GRUB as a separate project > > under GPLv2. It would be a huge effort to reimplement networking under > > GPLv3. > You wrong on this point because of http://www.sics.se/~adam/lwip/. > It's a complete TCP/IP stack with loads of features suited for preboot > environment and under 3-clause BSD license. I'll use it as a base. We > can import hw drivers from gPXE (most are GPLv3+-compatible) and > FreeBSD then OK, good to know. > > And I don't see it as a priority. The priority should be > > supplanting GRUB1, yaboot and other bootloaders currently in use. > > > It's my priority. Solaris folks are willing to move to grub2 but are > uncomfortable to lose netboot. (nested partitions and zfs were for > them too) Additionaly I have a laptop without CD-ROM and want to push > distributors to have completely network-based installation. For this a > FTP or HTTP supportin grub would be very nice I see. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel