Re: [PATCH]: grub: Partitions can start at zero.
From: Vladimir Serbinenko
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:53:35 +0200
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 2:30 AM, David Miller wrote:
>
>>
>> With Sun partitions, individual partitions can start at disk
>> address zero. That's right, zero.
>>
>> This works because UFS and EXT{2,3,4} superblocks are offset
>> far enough into the partition that it won't overwrite the
>> disk label nor the boot block.
>>
>> I added an, arguably hackish, heuristic to handle this properly.
>> Basically if the OS device name does not end in a digit we'll believe
>> that a zero hdg.start value can be a partition.
>>
>> If anyone has a better way to handle this, let me know :-)
>>
> What about the way I proposed in thread on implementing nested partitions?
Yes it seems that it should be able to handle this situation.
I cannot say %100 for sure until I see the code you end up
writing, of course :)
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Re: Trouble booting CF card in PCMCIA port from GRUB2
Hi, > grub> ls > (ata0) (ata0,1) (ata0,2) (ata0,3) > > As you see, only ata0 is shown, which is the target laptop's harddrive. > The PCMCIA slot or the card in it isn't shown! The problem is that grub2 would need a driver for the PCMCIA host controller - that would enable the PCMCIA CF-card to be seen by the ata driver (AFAIK). I'm thinking that you have 3 options: - boy a laptop IDE<->CF adapter and put the CF card to where the laptop's main hard disk is (install grub2 on the CF) - use linux+kexec (as already said) - or wait for somebody to write (or write it yourself) a PCMCIA subsystem for grub2 ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
Re: [PATCH]: grub: Handle the case where the root node has size-cells but not address-cells.
From: David Miller Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 17:24:54 -0700 (PDT) > 2009-04-19 David S. Miller > > * kern/ieee1275/mmap.c (grub_machine_mmap_iterate): If size_cells > is larger than address_cells, use that value for address_cells too. Committed. ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
Re: [PATCH]: grub: Exliminate fixed length string buffers in child and devalias iterators.
From: David Miller Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 17:27:53 -0700 (PDT) > 2009-04-19 David S. Miller > > * include/grub/ieee1275/ieee1275.h (IEEE1275_MAX_PROP_LEN, > IEEE1275_MAX_PATH_LEN): Define. > * kern/ieee1275/openfw.c (grub_children_iterate): Dynamically > allocate 'childtype', 'childpath', 'childname', and 'fullname'. > (grub_devalias_iterate): Dynamically allocate 'aliasname' and > 'devtype'. Explicitly NULL terminate devalias expansion. Committed. ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
Re: [PATCH]: grub: Add sparc64 support code.
From: David Miller Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 17:42:18 -0700 (PDT) > 2009-04-19 David S. Miller > > * util/sparc64/ieee1275/misc.c: New file. > * util/sparc64/ieee1275/grub-setup.c: New file. > * util/sparc64/ieee1275/grub-ofpathname.c: New file. > * util/sparc64/ieee1275/grub-mkimage.c: New file. > * util/sparc64/ieee1275/grub-install.in: New file. > * util/ieee1275/ofpath.c: New file. > * util/ieee1275/devicemap.c: New file. > * util/devicemap.c: New file. > * util/deviceiter.c: New file. > * kern/sparc64/ieee1275/init.c: New file. > * include/grub/util/ofpath.h: New file. > * include/grub/util/deviceiter.h: New file. > * util/grub-mkdevicemap.c: Include deviceiter.h. > Implement using grub_util_emit_devicemap_entry and > grub_util_iterate_devices. > * conf/i386-corebook.rmk: Build util/deviceiter.c and > util/devicemap.c into grub-mkdevicemap > * conf/i386-efi.rmk: Likewise. > * conf/i386-ieee1275.rmk: Likewise. > * conf/i386-pc.rmk: Likewise. > * conf/powerpc-ieee1275.rmk: Likewise. > * conf/sparc64-ieee1275.rmk: Add rules to build boot block > images and installation utilities. Build kernel as image > instead of as elf binary. Use common rules as much as possible. Committed. ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
Re: [PATCH] FreeBSD 64-bit kernel support
Hi Thanks Great, I'll be waiting till it's committed! WOOT Panarchy On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 7:10 AM, Vladimir Serbinenko wrote: > Hello, here is the version with changelog, fix for freebsd_module and > licencing corrections. > If nobody objects I'll commit it soon > Enjoy > > > On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Bean wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> This patch allows you to load amd64 freebsd kernel directly, here is an >> example: >> >> set root=(hd0,1,a) >> freebsd /boot/kernel/kernel >> freebsd_loadenv /boot/device.hints >> set FreeBSD.vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/ad0s1a >> boot >> >> Test successfully on FreeBSD 7.1 amd64. >> >> -- >> Bean >> >> ___ >> Grub-devel mailing list >> Grub-devel@gnu.org >> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel >> > > > ___ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > > ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
