Re: Results of the second run of research about ext4 support in bootloaders

2009-07-03 Thread Guido Günther
On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 06:58:14PM +0200, Stefano Canepa wrote: Hi all, I continued my research about ext4 support in bootloaders and this is the result till now: ext4 support * grub: amd64, i386, powerpc w/ ubuntu patch * grub2: amd64, i386, powerpc * lilo-installer:

Re: Results of the second run of research about ext4 support in bootloaders

2009-06-23 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 11:17:04AM +, Etienne Lorrain wrote: Hello, May I ask what would it take to have the Gujin bootloader added to this list, URL: http://gujin.sourceforge.net. It is a newer bootloader, but there isn't any Debian package for it, That would be a first step.

Re: Results of the second run of research about ext4 support in bootloaders

2009-06-23 Thread Wartan Hachaturow
2009/6/2 Stefano Canepa s...@linux.it: Looks without ext4 support    * yaboot: powerpc BTW, while I am at it: yaboot's second stage uses libext2fs to access ext2/ext3 filesystems, so I guess (since modern e2fsprogs seem to include ext4 support) it should be okay with ext4. I didn't test it

Re: Results of the second run of research about ext4 support in bootloaders

2009-06-22 Thread Etienne Lorrain
Hello, May I ask what would it take to have the Gujin bootloader added to this list, URL: http://gujin.sourceforge.net. It is a newer bootloader, but there isn't any Debian package for it, I have never made a Debian package before. Just fetching the source code and typing make will produce

Re: Results of the second run of research about ext4 support in bootloaders

2009-06-03 Thread Otavio Salvador
Hello, 2009/6/2 Stefano Canepa s...@linux.it: [...] Looks without ext4 support    * aboot: alpha    * yaboot: powerpc    * arcboot: mips    * silo: sparc    * delo: mipsel    * sibyl: mips, mipsel    * prep: powerpc    * palo: hppa What people think we ought to do in this case? I

Results of the second run of research about ext4 support in bootloaders

2009-06-02 Thread Stefano Canepa
Hi all, I continued my research about ext4 support in bootloaders and this is the result till now: ext4 support * grub: amd64, i386, powerpc w/ ubuntu patch * grub2: amd64, i386, powerpc * lilo-installer: amd64 i386 Looks without ext4 support * aboot: alpha *

Re: Results of the second run of research about ext4 support in bootloaders

2009-06-02 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Stefano Canepa s...@linux.it [2009-06-02 18:58]: Looks without ext4 support colo (mipsel) is probably missing from that list. * delo: mipsel delo is not used in d-i anymore (the devices supported by delo are no longer supported by d-i or the Debian kernel). -- Martin Michlmayr