Detection of boot devices by a linux kernel

2007-06-15 Thread adrian15
First question: = Once a Kernel has booted can request the bios the different boot devices and try to open them with a bios-disk driver or whatever the name is? Current problems: I do not

Grub2 mainstream test floppies

2007-06-15 Thread adrian15
Now I am quite busy with pause and map commands but I do not want to forget the grub2-disk creation (Something similar to Super Grub Disk). grub2-disk will have some menues that explain how grub2 syntax does work and will have some useful options such as searching an already

Re: how to add a new command

2007-06-15 Thread adrian15
Alex Roman escribió: On 12/06/07, adrian15 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once I write a new command like map.c or pause.c how am I supposed to add it to the standard grub? Should I write the makefiles manually?! or should I use some of the .sh files at the grub2 source code root

Feature Request: Alpha-Linux support.. possible?

2007-06-15 Thread Brian Evans
Hello all, The current DEC Alpha boot loaders MILO and aboot are unmaintained and frequently break with newer tool chains and kernels. How hard would it be to add Alpha to Grub-2? I'm not a very proficient programmer so myself adding such a project would not be wise. However, I do have an Alpha

Re: Feature Request: Alpha-Linux support.. possible?

2007-06-15 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Brian Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070615 18:38]: The current DEC Alpha boot loaders MILO and aboot are unmaintained and frequently break with newer tool chains and kernels. I have a machine for aboot, but I don't have a machine for MILO anymore. MILO is still up and running on

spanish grub wiki

2007-06-15 Thread adrian15
Can anyone with proper permissions edit PáginaInicial and put a link to FrontPage page ? Thank you. adrian15 ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: [PATCH] move prefix initialisation to grub-mkimage (Re: grub_prefix)

2007-06-15 Thread Robert Millan
I made some changes based on Marco's suggestions on IRC. Got rid of that FIXME ;-) It removes some redundancy, although the offsets are still duplicated in startup.S, but this isn't easy to fix (gas doesn't like C declarations, or even the preprocessor macros). If noone objects, I'll commit

Re: map command for grub2 draft

2007-06-15 Thread Marco Gerards
adrian15 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: adrian15 escribió: 1st) Where to save an array? = If I mimic the grub legacy map command I need to save an array with the map definitions. static unsigned short bios_drive_map[DRIVE_MAP_SIZE + 1]; So that each

Re: map command for grub2 draft

2007-06-15 Thread Bean
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 08:22:16PM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: adrian15 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: adrian15 escribió: 1st) Where to save an array? = If I mimic the grub legacy map command I need to save an array with the map definitions. static

Re: map command for grub2 draft

2007-06-15 Thread Marco Gerards
Bean [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 08:22:16PM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: adrian15 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: adrian15 escribió: 1st) Where to save an array? = If I mimic the grub legacy map command I need to save an array with

Re: map command for grub2 draft

2007-06-15 Thread Bean
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 08:56:00PM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: Bean [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 08:22:16PM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: adrian15 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: adrian15 escribió: 1st) Where to save an array? =