On Sep 28, 2010, at 3:42 PM, Dmitry Ilyin <idv1...@mail.ru> wrote: > 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.
Yes! This is some thing we added to Legacy GRUB in Solaris and it's something sorely missing-- along with hooks for display of a bar graph in the theme subsystem. --S > > 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 _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
