Re: Keyboards

2009-02-05 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Mittwoch, den 04.02.2009, 16:17 -0500 schrieb BandiPat: 1. Is it possible to set the keyboard layout for grub? It's always hard to find the right characters at lilo prompt. No. 2. The only real advantage is, that I don't have to run lilo after kernel updates? I still have to edit the

Re: Keyboards

2009-02-05 Thread BandiPat
Felix Zielcke wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 04.02.2009, 16:17 -0500 schrieb BandiPat: 1. Is it possible to set the keyboard layout for grub? It's always hard to find the right characters at lilo prompt. No. 2. The only real advantage is, that I don't have to run lilo after kernel updates? I

[Bugfix] vbetest doesn't return to text mode

2009-02-05 Thread phcoder
Hello. In text mode bits_per_pixel isn't set. Because of it grub_vbe_set_video_mode refuses to go back to text mode after vbetest command. Here is a bugfix Thanks Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko Index: video/i386/pc/vbe.c === ---

Re: [PATCH] 1/5 Multiple fallback entries

2009-02-05 Thread Colin D Bennett
Here is an updated patch based on Vesa's feedback. I will commit it in a few days if no one has any objections. This patch is against GRUB trunk revision 1973. On Sat, 31 Jan 2009 23:08:23 +0200 Vesa Jääskeläinen ch...@nic.fi wrote: What do you think if all text menu related would be moved to

Re: [Bugfix] vbetest doesn't return to text mode

2009-02-05 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
phcoder wrote: Hello. In text mode bits_per_pixel isn't set. Because of it grub_vbe_set_video_mode refuses to go back to text mode after vbetest command. Here is a bugfix Thanks for the report that there was a problem. I didn't like the hackishm in that patch so I rewrote that part of the

Re: Internationalization

2009-02-05 Thread Carles Pina i Estany
Hello, On Feb/04/2009, Varun Deshpande wrote: while going through todo list i came across Internationalization. http://grub.enbug.org/AboutInternationalization I would like to do translation or coding for indic languages. As i am very new so can someone guide me for this. Last month I did

[PATCH] try to avoid false positives on FAT filesystem

2009-02-05 Thread Felix Zielcke
Here's a little patch to check if bpb.version_specific.fat12_or_fat16.fstype or bpb.version_specific.fat32.fstype has the string FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 As can be seen on [0] and [1] Dell PCs have a small FAT partition containing some utilities. It seems like mkfs.ext2 isn't always clearing the first

Framebuffer address and kernel video mode

2009-02-05 Thread phcoder
Hello. First of all some good news: I managed to boot xnu kernel. To do so I need to set it to video mode and pass video mode info to kernel. Now I do it in adapter-specific way which is bad and ugly. So I would like to propose an interface to set video mode before loading kernel and then

Re: Framebuffer address and kernel video mode

2009-02-05 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:44:59 +0100 phcoder phco...@gmail.com wrote: Hello. First of all some good news: I managed to boot xnu kernel. To do so I need to set it to video mode and pass video mode info to kernel. Now I do it in adapter-specific way which is bad and ugly. So I would like to