Re: Multiple partition maps

2008-09-08 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 11:54:43PM +0200, phcoder wrote: BTW GPT module checks the protective MBR. In some cases when legay OS modified the MBR it's no longer protective MBR. And in theese cases GRUB will refuse to boot. Isn't the magic number check enough? If there's at least one protective

Re: renaming util/biosdisk.c

2008-09-08 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 10:06:40PM +0300, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: Robert Millan wrote: On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 02:07:08PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 18:49 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: Hi, I think we discussed before about util/biosdisk.c being a confusing name,

Re: [PATCH] bug fix for ata.c and scsi.c

2008-09-08 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 09:21:30PM +0800, Bean wrote: Hi, 2008-09-01 Bean [EMAIL PROTECTED] * disk/ata.c (grub_apapi_open): Initialize devfnd, no need to set scsi-name and scsi-luns, as they will be set in grub_scsi_open. * disk/scsi.c (grub_scsi_open): Don't call

[PATCH] Move normal, serial pci to i386.rmk

2008-09-08 Thread Robert Millan
This patch moves normal, serial and pci to conf/i386.rmk. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all.

Re: [PATCH] Move normal, serial pci to i386.rmk

2008-09-08 Thread Pavel Roskin
Quoting Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This patch moves normal, serial and pci to conf/i386.rmk. Why i386? That code is not i386 specific. Cannot we call it common2 or something like that? I believe we could declare SPARC broken, but keep PowerPC working. The PowerPC code can be

Re: [PATCH] Move normal, serial pci to i386.rmk

2008-09-08 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Pavel Roskin wrote: I believe we could declare SPARC broken, but keep PowerPC working. The PowerPC code can be cross-compiled and tested in qemu. I can send my testing scripts if you want. Can you put that on Wiki? ___ Grub-devel mailing list

Re: [PATCH] Move normal, serial pci to i386.rmk

2008-09-08 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 10:49:02AM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: Quoting Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This patch moves normal, serial and pci to conf/i386.rmk. Why i386? That code is not i386 specific. It is. Notice it's being moved from conf/i386-*.rmk, not common.rmk. normal:

Re: [PATCH] Move normal, serial pci to i386.rmk

2008-09-08 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Robert Millan wrote: On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 10:49:02AM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: Quoting Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This patch moves normal, serial and pci to conf/i386.rmk. Why i386? That code is not i386 specific. It is. Notice it's being moved from conf/i386-*.rmk, not

Re: Release Plan update...

2008-09-08 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Robert Millan wrote: On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 08:12:02PM +0300, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: Hi All, As our release plan is rotting a bit, I zapped current plan on Wiki and here is my proposal for plan targetting 2.0 gold release. == 1.97 == Estimate Date:: 2008-??-?? (ASAP) Release

Re: grub 1.96 svn 20080813 and circular lvm2 metadata

2008-09-08 Thread Hans Lambermont
Felix Zielcke wrote on 20080903: could you please address Marco's issues and send a new patch so the topic is brought up again? Yes, I'll make some time for it. regards, Hans Lambermont -- Hans Lambermont, M.Sc. - Newtec - OS-PlatformVAS http://newtec.eu/t:+31408519234

Re: [RFC] halt --no-apm

2008-09-08 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 16:11 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: Hi, I'm confused as to what halt --no-apm could be useful for. The code in startup.S seems to check for APM before using it. Is there any reason why users would want an infin loop even when power-off is possible? I guess the

Re: [PATCH] Move normal, serial pci to i386.rmk

2008-09-08 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 06:17:34PM +0300, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: Robert Millan wrote: On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 10:49:02AM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: Quoting Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This patch moves normal, serial and pci to conf/i386.rmk. Why i386? That code is not i386

Re: Multiple partition maps

2008-09-08 Thread phcoder
Robert Millan wrote: On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 11:54:43PM +0200, phcoder wrote: BTW GPT module checks the protective MBR. In some cases when legay OS modified the MBR it's no longer protective MBR. And in theese cases GRUB will refuse to boot. Isn't the magic number check enough? If there's

Re: [RFC] halt --no-apm

2008-09-08 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 12:58:57PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 16:11 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: Hi, I'm confused as to what halt --no-apm could be useful for. The code in startup.S seems to check for APM before using it. Is there any reason why users would want

Re: [RFC] halt --no-apm

2008-09-08 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 20:29 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: Though, for grub-emu the problem you describe is not significant, since the BIOS isn't there to missbehave. Perhaps we could make i386-pc's grub-emu use grub_halt (void) instead? Fine with me. If somebody really needs --no-apm (which I

Re: [PATCH] Move kern/loader.c to boot.mod and add preboot_support (was Re: Sendkey patch)

2008-09-08 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
phcoder wrote: Hello. As I said in another email there is no need for it. I send a patch for it. Doesn't this break our rescue mode ? ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: multiboot ELF section header table info passing missing in grub2?

2008-09-08 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 04:48:29PM +, Jonathan A. Kollasch wrote: hi, Robert noted that I should mention this: The ELF section header table MBI seems to not be implemented in grub2. NetBSD/i386 uses this to find symbol names in it's kernel debugger. For the record (Jonathan already

Re: [PATCH] Move kern/loader.c to boot.mod and add preboot_support (was Re: Sendkey patch)

2008-09-08 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Javier Martín wrote: El lun, 08-09-2008 a las 22:48 +0300, Vesa Jääskeläinen escribió: phcoder wrote: Hello. As I said in another email there is no need for it. I send a patch for it. Doesn't this break our rescue mode ? How would it? As with other commands, there would be two versions of

Re: [RFC] DISTLIST and gendistlist.sh

2008-09-08 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Donnerstag, den 04.09.2008, 20:21 +0200 schrieb Felix Zielcke: I think also that the SVN approach would be the better one. Shouldn't be too hard to replace that `make dist'/DISTLIST/gendistlist.sh stuff with a small script which uses SVN for this. I played now a bit with `git-svn' and

Re: [RFC] DISTLIST and gendistlist.sh

2008-09-08 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 12:02:30AM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote: There seems to be now a increased git interest floating around ;) Gah, no that was just me porting a program to Multiboot, which happened to be hosted on git ;-) So I think just ditching the old method completely and just depending

Re: Multiple partition maps

2008-09-08 Thread phcoder
Robert Millan wrote: On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 08:27:05PM +0200, phcoder wrote: Robert Millan wrote: On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 11:54:43PM +0200, phcoder wrote: BTW GPT module checks the protective MBR. In some cases when legay OS modified the MBR it's no longer protective MBR. And in theese cases

[PATCH] Re: Multiple partition maps

2008-09-08 Thread phcoder
Robert Millan wrote: On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 08:27:05PM +0200, phcoder wrote: Robert Millan wrote: On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 11:54:43PM +0200, phcoder wrote: BTW GPT module checks the protective MBR. In some cases when legay OS modified the MBR it's no longer protective MBR. And in theese cases

[BUG] Build system broken with i386.rmk

2008-09-08 Thread phcoder
Hello. I had conflicts in .mk files after svn up so I removed all the .mk. common.mk and i386-pc.mk were regenerated correctly but not i386.mk $ make conf/i386-pc.mk:3394: conf/i386.mk: No such file or directory make: *** No rule to make target `conf/i386.mk'. Stop. Can someone familiar with

RE: Grub-devel Digest, Vol 55, Issue 35

2008-09-08 Thread Greg White
As far as I know, the root= line is passed as one of the parameters to the booting kernel, so it shouldn't matter what version of Grub you're using. For instance, if you're running Linux, look at the Linux kernel documentation for the kernel in /Documentation/kernel-paraemeters.txt -- you'll

Re: grub and root=label=

2008-09-08 Thread Chris Knadle
On Monday 08 September 2008 9:26:54 pm Greg White wrote: As far as I know, the root= line is passed as one of the parameters to the booting kernel, so it shouldn't matter what version of Grub you're using. For instance, if you're running Linux, look at the Linux kernel documentation for the