Hi,
just a quick comment to the grub note:
Adam Stirk wrote:
...
FYI I think you might want to remove the GPT patch, as I believe you can't
install then GRUB on a non GPT disk. (I had this fix in my build system already)
The patched looked to check for GPT if protected or none classic DOS
partitions
are found, and I just double checked this on a aging 1GHz Athlon with just 3
normal primary partitions, GRUB installed and booted just fine with
t2/trunk:HEAD.
Thanks again for pointing me to the GPT issue and to have me double check
the current patchset on mainstream / old PCs.
Yours,
René
Regards
Adam
-----Original Message-----
From: René Rebe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 20 August 2008 13:53
To: Adam Stirk
Cc: T2 developers mailing list
Subject: Re: [t2] RE: [t2-svn] rev 30132 - trunk/package/x86/grub
HI Adam,
I don't think it includes GPT support, yet. However, with mostly Intel
Macs over
here in the office it would make sense even for us to backport support
for this -
should not be too hard.
What machines do you use there to have GPT in use?
Tweaking all code paths of GRUB to use non 32bit indexes for disc access
will
be harder. What is your disc configuration to get 2TB storage? E.g. our main
server has 4 single 500G discs to form 2G of RAW storage thru RAID5.
Honestly I think GRUB 2 should have been a gradual transformation instead
this never ending rewrite. That GRUB 1 is sort of unmaintained does not
exactly
help it's popularity either (e.g. most distributions already use
isolinux for CD
booting, while we already spent multiple days quirking various USB CD
related
BIOS bugs, and recently imported the grub-suns as well as the grub-os
patchset
to fix even more, and get PXE UNDI BIOS stack network boot support, ...
I started a grub2 package already on my latop, but given it recently had no
CD boot code and all the rest is also incomplete and in flux it only makes
sense to have it optional in addition to other, stable boot loaders.
Thus I did
not yet finished a grub2 package as it requires quite some tweaks to install
files named grub2 to make it possible to install it along grub(1).
Comments (and patches) welcome,
René
Adam Stirk wrote:
Rene,
Does this patch set include GPT support? Also are there any plans to add GRUB
2? I know this has GPT support and support for partitions bigger than 2Tb. (my
system has 4Tb of disk space and was a royal pain in the arse to get working)
Thanks
Adam
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 20 August 2008 12:51
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [t2-svn] rev 30132 - trunk/package/x86/grub
Author: rene
Date: 2008-08-20 13:51:25 +0200 (Wed, 20 Aug 2008)
New Revision: 30132
Log:
* updated grub to the "accumulated /fixes/" patchset 0.97-os.7
(which also includes PXE UNDI network stack support as the new
grub-sunos package, as well as other accumulated fixes)
Review the ChangeSet with:
svn diff -c 30132 https://svn.exactcode.de/t2
Added:
trunk/package/x86/grub/default-menu.patch
trunk/package/x86/grub/netboot-fixes.patch
Removed:
trunk/package/x86/grub/2g_limit.patch
trunk/package/x86/grub/mactel.patch
Modified:
trunk/package/x86/grub/gcc-4.0.patch
36 +++++++-----------------
trunk/package/x86/grub/grub-0.95-graphics.patch
13 ++++----
trunk/package/x86/grub/grub.conf
12 ++++++++
trunk/package/x86/grub/grub.desc
6 +++-
trunk/package/x86/grub/no-menu-border.patch
19 ++++++++++++
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René Rebe - ExactCODE GmbH - Europe, Germany, Berlin
http://exactcode.de | http://t2-project.org | http://rene.rebe.name
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