idea: use symbol database to keep track of module dependence

2009-04-20 Thread Bean
Hi, Currently, the module dependence is determined in the build process and inserted into the module file, there is several disadvantage about this approach: 1, The build system is quite complicated, here are the steps required to build module hello.mod. a. Compile all pre modules (pre-*.o) b.

Re: [PATCH] gptsync

2009-04-20 Thread Peter Cros
Hi, Compiled with rev 2121, --with-platform=efi but got no gptsync module. It could be a useful tool for macs, I would like to try it. On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Vladimir Serbinenko phco...@gmail.comwrote: Hello, this is a common way to boot non GPT-aware OS on GPT systems. For this

Re: [PATCH] bless command

2009-04-20 Thread Peter Cros
Hi, On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 6:05 AM, Vladimir Serbinenko phco...@gmail.comwrote: Hello You can use the bootable CD of your favourite distro. I hope that grub2.efi will become a default bootloader to install on efi system for major linux distributions The thought was just to avoid

Re: [PATCH] gptsync

2009-04-20 Thread Vladimir Serbinenko
My bad. Part of the patch was missing. Here is a corrected version with sanity checks for 2TB limit and some CHS fixes On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Peter Cros pxwp...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Compiled with rev 2121, --with-platform=efi but got no gptsync module. It could be a useful tool for

Re: [PATCH] bless command

2009-04-20 Thread Vladimir Serbinenko
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Peter Cros pxwp...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 6:05 AM, Vladimir Serbinenko phco...@gmail.comwrote: Hello You can use the bootable CD of your favourite distro. I hope that grub2.efi will become a default bootloader to install on efi

Booting to .iso? - Possible with GRUB4DOS - Please add this support to GRUB2

2009-04-20 Thread Chip Panarchy
Hello Please add support for booting to a .iso into GRUB2. More info: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=5041 Thanks in advance, Panarchy ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org

Re: Booting to .iso? - Possible with GRUB4DOS - Please add this support to GRUB2

2009-04-20 Thread Vladimir Serbinenko
Usefulness of this is limited to situation where payload uses bios calls which are quite few (dos and dos based tools, some booters). You can't boot a modern OS this way: it will fail the millisecond OS switches to its own drivers. Additionally to do such thing you need to leave kernel in memory.

Re: [PATCH]: grub: Partitions can start at zero.

2009-04-20 Thread Vladimir Serbinenko
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 2:30 AM, David Miller da...@davemloft.net wrote: With Sun partitions, individual partitions can start at disk address zero. That's right, zero. This works because UFS and EXT{2,3,4} superblocks are offset far enough into the partition that it won't overwrite the

Re: Booting to .iso? - Possible with GRUB4DOS - Please add this support to GRUB2

2009-04-20 Thread step21
Or maybe this makes it more clear: With wubi (which uses grub4dos) for example this only works, because the ubuntu installer and lateron the installed system provide additional software that enables the system to do so. (lupin/caspar) This only works if specifically supported by some iso, it will

Re: Booting to .iso? - Possible with GRUB4DOS - Please add this support to GRUB2

2009-04-20 Thread Vladimir Serbinenko
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 9:14 PM, step21 f...@terrorpop.de wrote: Or maybe this makes it more clear: With wubi (which uses grub4dos) for example this only works, because the ubuntu installer and lateron the installed system provide additional software that enables the system to do so.

Re: Booting to .iso? - Possible with GRUB4DOS - Please add this support to GRUB2

2009-04-20 Thread step21
also kernel will fail if it can't access/write to loopback (hfs+ comes to mind, or kernel which does not support ntfs) On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 9:30 PM, step21 f...@terrorpop.de wrote: I didn't mean you need an additional grub command ... but w/e On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 9:27 PM, Vladimir

[PATCH] Use symbol database to maintain module dependence

2009-04-20 Thread Bean
Hi, This patch add a new tool grub-symdb to manage symbol database and update module dependence as required. The build process is greatly simplified, moddep.lst, def-*.lst, und-*.lst are not generated anymore. grub-symdb will read the module files and update modsym.lst and moddep.lst

Trouble booting CF card in PCMCIA port from GRUB2

2009-04-20 Thread Stephan Henningsen
Hi, My goal is to make my old laptop boot a live Linux dist from the CF card inserted into an adapter in the PCMCIA port. After booting a GRUB2 image, the laptop's hard disk drive can be put to sleep and I'll have a silent netbook. I'm experimenting with this rather simple problem, but on a

Framebuffer/vbe separation

2009-04-20 Thread Vladimir Serbinenko
Hello, currently vbe module contains all the framebuffer functions which are actually adapter-independent and I think more adapters can be implementing by providing a function which sets mode and framebuffer. Additionally it provides an interface to retrieve framebuffer address for loaders: check

Re: [PATCH] bless command

2009-04-20 Thread Peter Cros
My reply was delayed by network going down. On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 9:52 PM, Vladimir Serbinenko phco...@gmail.comwrote: The bootable cd can have both eltorito (bios) and grub2.efi I like the grub.efi CD. But what happens if you do something like: blessed folder - /test1 contains

Re: Getting the silent=splash to work?

2009-04-20 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Montag, den 20.04.2009, 16:53 -0400 schrieb BandiPat: Ok, grub2 devs, I can't figure this out. The splash screen that covers the scrolling text when booting up, no longer works! I've tried several different things, but have not run across a solution yet. What's the trick? Another