IP addresses from PXE into grub2 enviroment

2009-10-22 Thread Aleš Kapica
Greetings, I don't care about your academical and also pointless discussions. I only care for working solution, because in current state there is no way in GRUB2 how to get IP address of the machine and the server from PXE to GRUBs environment. Our solution in the one which is less invasive

Re: [GITGRUB] New menu interface (implementation)

2009-10-22 Thread Michal Suchanek
2009/10/22 Bean bean12...@gmail.com: On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 4:47 AM, Michal Suchanek hramr...@centrum.cz wrote: 2009/10/21 Bean bean12...@gmail.com: On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 3:20 AM, Michal Suchanek hramr...@centrum.cz wrote: 2009/10/18 Bean bean12...@gmail.com: Hi, Update: Add mapkey

Re: using GRUB with FreeBSD gmirror

2009-10-22 Thread Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
Brian R. Jones wrote: I'm trying to get GRUB1.97~beta4 working with FreeBSD 8.0 RC1 amd64 and gmirror, but I'm not sure the correct way to to a kernel module. I'm guessing something like: freebsd_module=/boot/kernel/geom_mirror.ko type=??? or

Re: powerpc/sparc problems

2009-10-22 Thread rubisher
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 12:03 AM, rubisher wrote: Bean wrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Felix Zielcke wrote: David are you still there? And also anyone who has access to a powerpc machine (and experience)? In Debian we the problem that the `__ashldi3' and `__bswapsi2'

Experimental branch for GRUB

2009-10-22 Thread Bean
Hi, I think it could be beneficial to have a experimental branch for GRUB. Minor bug fixes can be applied to mainstream directly. But for big and intrusive changes, such as the new menu system, we can place it in the experimental branch first. Users interested in the latest fancy feature can use

Re: powerpc/sparc problems

2009-10-22 Thread Bean
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 5:12 PM, rubisher rubis...@scarlet.be wrote: On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 12:03 AM, rubisher wrote: Bean wrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Felix Zielcke wrote: David are you still there? And also anyone who has access to a powerpc machine (and experience)?

Feature Request: 32-bit mem write and 'setpci -s' type command in menu.lst

2009-10-22 Thread Nando
Hi everyone, I wanted to ask if the following features could be added to grub? 1/ Ability to write to 32-bit memory space === I need to set my ICH8M chipset to enable the SMBUS, since the bios disables it. Rather than add the code to the kernel, I'd prefer to do it

Re: Feature Request: 32-bit mem write and 'setpci -s' type command in menu.lst

2009-10-22 Thread Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
Nando wrote: Hi everyone, I wanted to ask if the following features could be added to grub? 1/ Ability to write to 32-bit memory space === I need to set my ICH8M chipset to enable the SMBUS, since the bios disables it. Rather than add the code to the kernel,

Sourcing scripts from lua

2009-10-22 Thread Jordan Uggla
Hi everyone, Is there a good way to source lua scripts from within lua? I've tried require() but the function doesn't exist. loadfile() and loadstring() exist but always return nil. -- Jordan Uggla ( Jordan_U on irc.freenode.net ) ___ Grub-devel

Re: Experimental branch for GRUB

2009-10-22 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 05:17:55PM +0800, Bean wrote: Hi, I think it could be beneficial to have a experimental branch for GRUB. Minor bug fixes can be applied to mainstream directly. But for big and intrusive changes, such as the new menu system, we can place it in the experimental branch

Re: [GITGRUB] New menu interface (implementation)

2009-10-22 Thread Peter Cros
I don't know what is the testing status for pc machines, but I have grub-install problem for platform pc on Apple with the current menu source. commit eb03e2575b2c0b1b4fd83f33a741f6fef3b93339 Author: Bean bean12...@gmail.com Date: Wed Oct 21 01:11:27 2009 +0800 Compiling for grub-pc test of