Re: [ppc] [patch] set environment from commandline

2005-05-26 Thread Marco Gerards
Olaf Hering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, May 23, Marco Gerards wrote: > >> perhaps the amount of memory, time and date, etc. > > Why would anyone care about that in a bootloader? Some people want to boot a specific OS depending on the time. There have been a lot of requests for this.

Re: [ppc] [patch] set environment from commandline

2005-05-25 Thread Olaf Hering
On Mon, May 23, Marco Gerards wrote: > perhaps the amount of memory, time and date, etc. Why would anyone care about that in a bootloader? ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: [ppc] [patch] set environment from commandline

2005-05-23 Thread Marco Gerards
Olaf Hering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, May 13, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > >> Do you have any other "essential parts" in mind? > > Showing or hiding images depending on cpu capabilities. > Essentially a 'title[64bit] install' and 'title[32bit] install'. > There is really no need to show

Re: [ppc] [patch] set environment from commandline

2005-05-18 Thread Olaf Hering
On Fri, May 13, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > Do you have any other "essential parts" in mind? Showing or hiding images depending on cpu capabilities. Essentially a 'title[64bit] install' and 'title[32bit] install'. There is really no need to show 64bit kernels on my ibook. So if you guys could exte

Re: [ppc] [patch] set environment from commandline

2005-05-13 Thread Hollis Blanchard
On May 13, 2005, at 7:43 AM, Olaf Hering wrote: On Mon, May 09, Hollis Blanchard wrote: Also, this patch allows you to boot from the OF commandline, overriding the defaults. Example: boot enet:,grubof prefix=foo; debug=bar Can one override essential parts of grub that way? Like loading a diff

Re: [ppc] [patch] set environment from commandline

2005-05-13 Thread Marco Gerards
Olaf Hering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Also, this patch allows you to boot from the OF commandline, overriding >> the defaults. Example: >> boot enet:,grubof prefix=foo; debug=bar > > Can one override essential parts of grub that way? > Like loading a different config file? The configfile

Re: [ppc] [patch] set environment from commandline

2005-05-13 Thread Olaf Hering
On Mon, May 09, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > We're doing a lot of useless work in cmain(). > > Also, this patch allows you to boot from the OF commandline, overriding > the defaults. Example: > boot enet:,grubof prefix=foo; debug=bar Can one override essential parts of grub that way? Like load

Re: [ppc] [patch] set environment from commandline

2005-05-11 Thread Marco Gerards
Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yeah, I consider it absolutely required, so that when users say "it > crashed before I could do anything" we can just ask them to boot with > "debug=all". What I want to use it for is setting the prefix. Usually I have grub.cfg stored on the HD and

Re: [ppc] [patch] set environment from commandline

2005-05-10 Thread Hollis Blanchard
On May 10, 2005, at 1:11 PM, Marco Gerards wrote: Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Also, this patch allows you to boot from the OF commandline, overriding the defaults. Example: boot enet:,grubof prefix=foo; debug=bar This looks like a nice feature to me, especially for development

Re: non boot-device was Re: [ppc] [patch] set environment from commandline

2005-05-10 Thread Hollis Blanchard
On May 10, 2005, at 2:59 PM, Paul Nasrat wrote: Ignore the Default catch that seems to be resolved for me. Hmm, if you have any ideas, I'd still like to know how you got that error... Experimental toolchain? -Hollis ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-dev

Re: non boot-device was Re: [ppc] [patch] set environment from commandline

2005-05-10 Thread Paul Nasrat
On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 20:16 +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: > Paul Nasrat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 0 > boot hd:2,\grubof.modules load-size=2e220 adler32=e04b6e6d > > What are load-size and adler32 used for? Don't you need a `;' here? > > > Loading ELF > > method not found; ihandle=ffbc6f8

Re: non boot-device was Re: [ppc] [patch] set environment from commandline

2005-05-10 Thread Paul Nasrat
On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 20:16 +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: > Paul Nasrat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 0 > boot hd:2,\grubof.modules load-size=2e220 adler32=e04b6e6d > > What are load-size and adler32 used for? Don't you need a `;' here? They were auto added to console by OF - not me. Hold on

Re: non boot-device was Re: [ppc] [patch] set environment from commandline

2005-05-10 Thread Marco Gerards
Paul Nasrat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 0 > boot hd:2,\grubof.modules load-size=2e220 adler32=e04b6e6d What are load-size and adler32 used for? Don't you need a `;' here? > Loading ELF > method not found; ihandle=ffbc6f80 phandle=ff848300 method > not found; ihandle=ffbc6f80 phandle=ff84830

Re: [ppc] [patch] set environment from commandline

2005-05-10 Thread Marco Gerards
Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We're doing a lot of useless work in cmain(). Agreed. > Also, this patch allows you to boot from the OF commandline, overriding > the defaults. Example: > boot enet:,grubof prefix=foo; debug=bar This looks like a nice feature to me, especially

non boot-device was Re: [ppc] [patch] set environment from commandline

2005-05-10 Thread Paul Nasrat
On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 00:05 -0500, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > We're doing a lot of useless work in cmain(). > > Also, this patch allows you to boot from the OF commandline, overriding > the defaults. Example: > boot enet:,grubof prefix=foo; debug=bar I thought this might work if I'm using grub

[ppc] [patch] set environment from commandline

2005-05-08 Thread Hollis Blanchard
We're doing a lot of useless work in cmain(). Also, this patch allows you to boot from the OF commandline, overriding the defaults. Example: boot enet:,grubof prefix=foo; debug=bar Comments? -Hollis Index: boot/powerpc/ieee1275/cmain.c ===