1. Implementation of some progress bar for file reading Loading files from slow flash or network can sometimes take up to several minutes (Linux initramfs could be about 100Mb). And i'm thinking about some progress meter for file loading. It could be print dot per megabyte, percent or 34/76Mb style or like this |#######------------|. Looks like it should be build into grub_disk_read procedue in kern/disk.c or grub_file_read in kern/file.c Maybe you could give me some hints about best way to do this.
2. Basic text editor Is it possible to make basic text editor as grub2 module. I'm looking at "ed" http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed.msg.html It will be very usefull to edit text files (grub.cfg for example) without booting os. Or there is no write support in filesystem drivers? Maybe hex editor? 3. Installing on loop devices grub-install fails to work on loop devices. Partition detection doesn't work on loop devices, but you can use kpartx. For example we have /dev/loop0, using fdisk we create 2 partitions on this image, kpartx -a /dev/loop0 will map partitions to /dev/mapper/loop0p1 and /dev/mapper/loop0p2 which you can format and mount, but grub-install will fail (there is no bios drives for them?). No kernel partition detecion for loop devices is serious problem. Why kernel cannot create /dev/loop0p1 and /dev/loop0p2 like with real hdds? FreeBSD's md's doesn't have this problem and work like normal disks with partitions. But this is not related to grub. What is the best way to fix installing on loop devices? Fixing grub-probe or grub-install to not using grub-probe when it cannot work and hardcode (hd0) prefix for loop devices? Using grub-mkimage and grub-setup manually works. _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
