Hi, I would like to contribute my Cygwin port of grub2.
A patch vs. current CVS (cvs co -D "2007-10-16 UTC" ...) is available here: http://franke.dvrdns.org/cygwin/grub/grub2-20071016-cygwin.patch A proposed changelog entry is located in the patch itself (Changelog.cygwin). A compiled version is here: http://franke.dvrdns.org/cygwin/grub/grub2-20071016-cygwin.tar.bz2 (Caution: grub-setup/install only tested in a VM yet ;-) Major changes: - Option -N of Cygwin ld has no effect. This is handled by a linker script detected by configure. - Cygwin gas supports only PE format, not ELF. The ".previous" and ".type" directive have been removed and the loader changed accordingly. - For Cygwin, ELF .mod files are produced by an extra objcopy step. Unfortunately, objcopy has a bug when converting PE to ELF: The pc relative relocation offsets are not adjusted. This is handled by an ugly hack in the loader. I hope to find a fix for objcopy. - The HAVE_ASM_USCORE case is now handled properly. It actually works to load modules compiled on Linux by a kernel compiled on Cygwin and vice versa. - Added options "-t prefix" and "-t all" to grub-probe. - grub-emu curses KEY_*s work now. - Fixed 2 bugs in "(host)" filesystem, grub-emu now finds partitions. - Two fixes in the memory map evaluation, added a primitive memory existence test. Open issues found during testing: - Cygwin "prefix" detection does no work for path below /cygdrive/. - update-grub does not work on Cygwin yet. - A memtest86+ zImage (from grml 1.0) does not boot when loaded with "linux" command. Same image works with "kernel" command from grub 0.97. - "terminal gfxterm", "videotest" and "vbetest" do not work. Characters are not visible. This could also be reproduced when compiled on Linux. Thanks for any comment. Cheers, Christian _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
