Re: Using GRUB2 for booting from CD

2007-08-20 Thread Alex Roman
be able to get it going after Summer of Code is finished and all is integrated in the CVS, or if Patrick can post a patch that'd work too. Thanks! -- Alex Roman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org

Re: Using GRUB2 for booting from CD

2007-08-13 Thread Alex Roman
wrong in my procedure or in my code... Thanks! -- Alex Roman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

rescue mode

2007-08-12 Thread Alex Roman
Is there any way to find out what is causing GRUB2 to enter rescue mode? Thanks! -- Alex Roman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: rescue mode

2007-08-12 Thread Alex Roman
On 12/08/07, Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 10:19:14AM -0400, Alex Roman wrote: Is there any way to find out what is causing GRUB2 to enter rescue mode? I generally try to get normal.mod loaded by hand, and in the process usually something preventing

Using GRUB2 for booting from CD

2007-08-12 Thread Alex Roman
already there, but how can I tell grub2 to actually mount the CD-ROM drive as an iso9660 filesystem? Thanks! -- Alex Roman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: GPL version 3

2007-07-21 Thread Alex Roman
list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel -- Alex Roman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Timed wait/sleep

2007-07-06 Thread Alex Roman
? Would there be any use, besides my driver, in developing an RTC interface? Thanks! -- Alex Roman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: CD-ROM booting staus update

2007-07-04 Thread Alex Roman
On 04/07/07, Uwe Hermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 11:14:40PM -0400, Alex Roman wrote: On 28/06/07, Alex Roman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does the code require a BIOS to work, i.e., do you rely on BIOS callbacks in the CDROM code? It would be great if you would _not_ do

Re: GPL version 3

2007-07-04 Thread Alex Roman
Legacy... That being said, we also need to encourage distros to migrate away from GRUB Legacy, and what other better incentive than no longer maintaining GRUB Legacy? -- Alex Roman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http

Re: CD-ROM booting staus update

2007-07-04 Thread Alex Roman
On 04/07/07, Alex Roman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 04/07/07, Uwe Hermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 11:14:40PM -0400, Alex Roman wrote: That will be the second stage of my Summer of Code project... Provided people have no objections against my patch, and all is well, I

Re: CD-ROM booting staus update

2007-07-03 Thread Alex Roman
On 28/06/07, Alex Roman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That being said, I will clean up the code I have so far and send it as a patch for review ASAP (tonight or tomorrow latest)... I've cleaned up the code and created a patch which will enable allow booting from the first CD-ROM on a system

CD-ROM booting staus update

2007-06-26 Thread Alex Roman
! PS: I know this has been a little slow going, but I have been doing a lot of learning in the process... -- Alex Roman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Loading boot image retrieved from CD-ROM

2007-06-23 Thread Alex Roman
, %ds movw%ax, %es movw%ax, %fs movw%ax, %gs movw%ax, %ss ljmp$0x07c0,$0 .code32 --end-- -- Alex Roman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub

Re: Loading boot image retrieved from CD-ROM

2007-06-23 Thread Alex Roman
On 24/06/07, Alex Roman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FUNCTION(grub_eltorito_boot) /* set up to pass boot drive */ popl%edx /* address in %ebx */ popl%ebx /* count in %ecx */ popl%ecx Oops.. these got a bit inverted, should pop in the order ecx, edx

Re: Loading boot image retrieved from CD-ROM

2007-06-23 Thread Alex Roman
in this case? The eltorito specs say the code should reside at segment 7c0h... -- Alex Roman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

QEMU and ElTorito and EDD 3

2007-06-13 Thread Alex Roman
with AX=4D00. Please report (see screenshot) ... which I will (report, that is) :) But I thought I'd share the find first.. Looks like I'm going to have to use either a different emulator (vmwareco.) or a real PC... What do you folks suggest? Cheers! -- Alex Roman [EMAIL PROTECTED] attachment

Re: QEMU and ElTorito and EDD 3

2007-06-13 Thread Alex Roman
On 13/06/07, Alex Roman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, it does not support ElTorito extensions... I called the 4D function (Return Boot Catalog) and the QEMU BIOS (I think) printed a nice informative message: FATAL: Int13 eltorito call with AX=4D00. Please report (see screenshot

Re: QEMU and ElTorito and EDD 3

2007-06-13 Thread Alex Roman
compatibility with many CD-ROM types, not only ATAPI (i.e. SCSI, USB, whatever the BIOS supports) :) -- Alex Roman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: QEMU and ElTorito and EDD 3

2007-06-13 Thread Alex Roman
On 13/06/07, Vesa Jääskeläinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alex Roman wrote: El Torito part of the EDD3 spec might not be accessible if you have not booted with such media that needs that support. At least this seems to be case with VMWare which uses Phoenix BIOS. I once tested out those CD-ROM

Vim rules for editing GRUB 2

2007-06-12 Thread Alex Roman
Does anyone have some vim rules for editing on GRUB 2? I've noticed some files use both tabs and spaces for indentation, so I'm not sure which to use to please everyone (or most people?)... Also how many spaces should be used for indentation? Thanks in advance! -- Alex Roman [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Variable assignment not working as expected

2007-06-09 Thread Alex Roman
it is built right into the kernel AFAIK... Cheers! -- Alex Roman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: Variable assignment not working as expected

2007-06-09 Thread Alex Roman
throughout the grub2 source code... It could be useful in some places... -- Alex Roman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: Variable assignment not working as expected

2007-06-09 Thread Alex Roman
On 09/06/07, Alex Roman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm, after some further thought, I think it would make more sense to put it in grub_env_set function because that allows the feature to be use throughout the grub2 source code... It could be useful in some places... I'm trying to code

Re: Variable assignment not working as expected

2007-06-09 Thread Alex Roman
On 09/06/07, Alex Roman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to code this feature but I'm noticing something peculiar... In command.c, function set_command I do the following just before var = args[0];: grub_printf( args[0]: %s\n, args[0] ); If args[0] contains a '$', the string is displayed

Re: Variable assignment not working as expected

2007-06-09 Thread Alex Roman
On 09/06/07, Marco Gerards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alex Roman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 09/06/07, Bean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I try the following command: set AA=1 set BB=$AA Taking a quick look at command.c where the set command is defined, it doesn't look like that feature

Re: Grub Loading Linux? kernel

2007-06-08 Thread Alex Roman
On 08/06/07, adrian15 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert Millan escribió: OTOH, if you replace: GRUB loading kernel with: Loading GRUB kernel Maybe this archieves to resolve both concerns? I vote for it. I also think that's a good idea. -- Alex Roman [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: GSoC: CD-ROM booting options

2007-06-07 Thread Alex Roman
ElTorito data structures from a bootable CD... Which brings me to the question: Is it possible to call int 13h functions from a GRUB2 module? If yes, what is the (preferred?) way to do it? Thanks in advance! -- Alex Roman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Grub

Re: GSoC: CD-ROM booting options

2007-06-04 Thread Alex Roman
On 04/06/07, Jeroen Dekkers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Mon, 04 Jun 2007 17:10:53 +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: Alex Roman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Personally, I think both are important to support, but I want to see what the majority of developers and users think we should support. Just

ls and xfs = unhandled exception / reset

2007-05-15 Thread Alex Roman
document to read or give me some advice how I could start working on this? Thank you in advance, ... regards! -- Alex Roman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: Feature Request: in x86, the ability to boot an arbitrary bootable CD from a grub boot menu

2007-05-10 Thread Alex Roman
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Re: My Summer of Code Project

2007-04-24 Thread Alex Roman
maybe you can salvage something. FILO supports booting from ElTorito bootable CD media, uses 32-bit mode, and it is free of bios calls. Unfortunately its x86 only, although some work has been done to get it running on PPC. regards DevH Alex Roman wrote: Hello list, My name is Alex Roman and I

My Summer of Code Project

2007-04-21 Thread Alex Roman
Hello list, My name is Alex Roman and I have been selected as a Summer of Code student for the GRUB2 project. I thought I'd introduce myself and my project. I am a second year student at the University of Waterloo (just finished 2A, first term of second year). I have experience developing in low