Re: [RFC] Don't pass filename in multiboot command line

2009-11-24 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 05:20:09PM +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: Committed with improvements as ACK'ed by Robert on IRC I wasted at least half of a working day due to this change! (As well as others wasted time, who where trying to help me.) Don't get me wrong -- in

Success report: GRUB2, LVM, GPT, AMD64, Debian Installer

2009-08-14 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! A short success report about using GRUB2 on a LVM-only system, with GPT instead of the usual MBR booting, on a AMD64 system, installed with the 20090531-7 Debian Installer. I had the DI create a GPT partition table, partitioned that into a small (1 MiB) GRUB booting partition (as

Re: [PATCH] GRUB2 does not provide Multiboot Legacy memory map

2008-04-19 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 03:11:43PM -0600, Julian Salazar wrote: I'm developing a small kernel and I've been using GRUB2 with the Legacy Multiboot Specification for some time now. I've noticed that it does not provide some of the things in the Multiboot Information structure that GRUB

Re: GPL version 3

2007-07-22 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 10:04:34AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 01:38:30AM +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: will make a new release in next weekend, if everything looks good. I don't think we're ready. There are serious outstanding issues on LVM and

Re: Update for NTFS file system driver

2007-06-10 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 09:57:44AM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: Bean [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 08:05:45PM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: The normal procedure for patches is to make them consistent with the GCS (GNU Coding Standards), include a changelog. That

Re: Moving to another SCM

2007-05-27 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 11:58:44PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: https://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/Git It will depend on when savannah starts offering it when we can switch. Support for git is already up and running: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/. I know from the GNU

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Question about the GNU Grub ideas]

2007-03-21 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! Forwarding this email to the correct mailing list, grub-devel@gnu.org. Note that to post on there, you first need to subscribe (I didn't invent that rule...): see http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel. Regards, Thomas ---BeginMessage--- I am not sure you are the right

Re: interested in fancy grub

2007-03-20 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 07:18:39AM -0700, vivek tv wrote: Iam a young linux enthusiast. I am interested in starting my work on fancy grub which is given in SOC. Thanks for your interest! Will u please give me tips towards this. Please see

Re: Google Summer of Code 2007

2007-03-13 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 06:36:11PM +0100, Marco Gerards wrote: Yoshinori K. Okuji [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyway, our list just shows examples. Students are free to propose new ideas. In addition, we can obtain only one student from the past experience. One note on that: it

Re: Google Summer of Code 2007

2007-03-06 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 11:44:21AM +0100, Johan Rydberg wrote: Yoshinori K. Okuji [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As you may know, Google Summer of Code 2007 is about starting: Are we suggesting any tasks that could be done by the student(s)? That's how it is supposed to work, yes. The

Re: Stack protection via GCC's `-fstack-protector'

2007-02-03 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 08:36:09PM +0100, I wrote: I created the following patch to be able to continue building GRUB2 on systems that have `-fstack-protector' enabled by default. (This patch is equal to what we've been using in GNU Mach for some time now.) 2006-12-15 Thomas

Xen vs. GRUB

2007-01-03 Thread Thomas Schwinge
) $(task-resume) module (hd0,5)/lib/ld.so.1 \ /hurd/exec \ $(exec-task=task-create) #v- On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 10:21:14PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: Thomas Schwinge, le Tue 02 Jan 2007 12:10:49 +0100, a ?crit : On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 01:11:05AM +, Samuel Thibault wrote: A crude

Re: Grub 1.95 configure fails on openSuSE 10.2

2006-12-20 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 05:36:33PM +0700, Alexander Herrmann wrote: I just compiled Grub 1.95 on openSuSE 10.2 and the following came to my attention. The ./configure failed that the ncurses devel files where not installed. You may include a check for ncurses.h in the configuration.

Re: Stack protection via GCC's `-fstack-protector'

2006-12-15 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Thomas Schwinge [EMAIL PROTECTED] * aclocal.m4 (grub_CHECK_STACK_PROTECTOR): New definition. * configure.ac: Use it for testing the HOST and TARGET compilers. Index: aclocal.m4 === RCS file: /cvsroot/grub/grub2

Re: user-defined hooks

2006-12-13 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 01:59:18PM -0600, Hollis Blanchard wrote: Defining the set of useful hooks, the arguments passed to each, and documenting them will be critical. Also, just like with commands, once we implement a hook we can't remove or change it without breaking config files.

Re: Stack protection via GCC's `-fstack-protector'

2006-11-13 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 11:36:20PM +0100, I wrote: On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 11:14:19PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: Thomas Schwinge, le Wed 08 Nov 2006 22:40:54 +0100, a ?crit : Is it feasible to have the `-fstack-protector' functionality in GNU Mach and GRUB2 (and how to do

Stack protection via GCC's `-fstack-protector'

2006-11-08 Thread Thomas Schwinge
[Please keep both bug-hurd@gnu.org and grub-devel@gnu.org in the recipients list.] Hello! For some time, GCC now offers the following feature: info Gcc #v+ `-fstack-protector' Emit extra code to check for buffer overflows, such as stack smashing attacks. This is done by adding a

Re: Stack protection via GCC's `-fstack-protector'

2006-11-08 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 11:14:19PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: Thomas Schwinge, le Wed 08 Nov 2006 22:40:54 +0100, a ?crit : Is it feasible to have the `-fstack-protector' functionality in GNU Mach and GRUB2 (and how to do that, then) or shall we unconditionally pass `-fno-stack

Conditionally building `grub-emu'

2006-10-22 Thread Thomas Schwinge
one. 2006-10-22 Thomas Schwinge [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Makefile.in (enable_grub_emu): New variable. * configure.ac (--enable-grub-emu): New option. Do the checks for (n)curses only if `--enable-grub-emu' is requested. * conf/i386-efi.rmk (sbin_UTILITIES): Add `grub

Re: Support for reading LVM volumes

2006-09-03 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 05:13:55PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: I've just commited the code for reading LVM volumes. Congratulations, Jeroen! :-) I'll be sure to check (and use!) that sooner or later, but then forever. Or so. Regards, Thomas signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: configure host and target

2006-05-29 Thread Thomas Schwinge
On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 09:04:55PM +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: According to a suggestion by an autoconf developer, I think we should change the build system in this way: [...] If there is no objection, I will work on this issue very soon. To give some feedback: I support this idea.

Re: TCP timers and telnet

2006-04-02 Thread Thomas Schwinge
On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 01:31:37PM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: Marco Gerards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So I was thinking, why not add such functionality to GRUB 2? It's easy to implement with the networking code I currently have. The only thing about it that sucks is that we have to