Bug#473401: grub-installer: grub2 config for Windows partition does not boot

2008-12-05 Thread Guido Günther
On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 12:12:42AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > For multipath, I'm not familiar with how it works, and speficically what > does grub-installer do to support it, so I don't know. Support for multipath in grub-installer is modeled straight after dmraid. It gets the relevant disk and

Bug#473401: grub-installer: grub2 config for Windows partition does not boot

2008-11-30 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 07:41:50PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 08:55:18AM +0100, Guido Günther wrote: > >> On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 10:56:28PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > >> [..snip..] > >> > Status update: > >> > > >>

Bug#473401: grub-installer: grub2 config for Windows partition does not boot

2008-11-30 Thread Otavio Salvador
Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 08:55:18AM +0100, Guido Günther wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 10:56:28PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: >> [..snip..] >> > Status update: >> > >> > - vdX and xvdX are supported >> > - ida is supported >> > - i2o is suppor

Bug#473401: grub-installer: grub2 config for Windows partition does not boot

2008-11-30 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 08:55:18AM +0100, Guido Günther wrote: > On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 10:56:28PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > [..snip..] > > Status update: > > > > - vdX and xvdX are supported > > - ida is supported > > - i2o is supported > > - I don't know the status of multipath, ex

Bug#473401: grub-installer: grub2 config for Windows partition does not boot

2008-11-30 Thread Guido Günther
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 10:56:28PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: [..snip..] > Status update: > > - vdX and xvdX are supported > - ida is supported > - i2o is supported > - I don't know the status of multipath, except that GRUB never supported it. > I know grub-installer has some hack wh

Bug#473401: grub-installer: grub2 config for Windows partition does not boot

2008-11-29 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 12:08:12PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > 2) does it support _all_ the different device types that grub-installer > >supports, _including_ the recently added ones (vdX and xvdX) and for > >example multipath (/dev/mapper/mpath*); if not these should be added > >i

Bug#473401: grub-installer: grub2 config for Windows partition does not boot

2008-06-02 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 03:08:20PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > Looking at grub-probe I also think we might be able to further simplify > grub-installer by calling it with a path instead of a device, but that can > wait until later. Adding a comment for that could be useful though. Path resoluti

Bug#473401: grub-installer: grub2 config for Windows partition does not boot

2008-06-02 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 11:51:03AM +0200, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: > On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 11:38:56PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > This patch gets rid of the problem by simplifiing the convert() function > > like > > we did for grub-install/update-grub. Although maybe it's a bit too radical. > >

Bug#473401: grub-installer: grub2 config for Windows partition does not boot

2008-06-02 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 02:46:58PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > IMO the following should be checked _before_ we merge this patch: > 1) does grub-probe produce the same output for the same input Short answer is "no promises"; but I should ellaborate. Both methods are basically flawed; they try to gu

Bug#473401: grub-installer: grub2 config for Windows partition does not boot

2008-05-07 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 01 May 2008, Frans Pop wrote: > 2) does it support _all_ the different device types that grub-installer >supports, _including_ the recently added ones (vdX and xvdX) and for >example multipath (/dev/mapper/mpath*); if not these should be added >in grub-probe *first* Alterna

Bug#473401: grub-installer: grub2 config for Windows partition does not boot

2008-05-01 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 01 May 2008, Frans Pop wrote: > It should however then also update these preceding comments, and probably > the function itself should be renamed. I also miss some kind of error > handling in case grub-probe fails. It should also probably be run using log-output so errors get recorded

Bug#473401: grub-installer: grub2 config for Windows partition does not boot

2008-05-01 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Robert Millan wrote: > Comments? That whole section is preceded by these comments: ## This is copied from update-grub; we've requested that it be moved ## to a utility or shell library Seems like this has now happened and that grub-probe is the utility we've been wait

Bug#473401: grub-installer: grub2 config for Windows partition does not boot

2008-05-01 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 11:38:56PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > This patch gets rid of the problem by simplifiing the convert() function like > we did for grub-install/update-grub. Although maybe it's a bit too radical. > > But since we're committed to use this approach in the grub package, I th

Bug#473401: grub-installer: grub2 config for Windows partition does not boot

2008-04-30 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 11:38:56PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > This patch gets rid of the problem [...] argh. There was supposed to be a patch... -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) Index: grub-in

Bug#473401: grub-installer: grub2 config for Windows partition does not boot

2008-04-30 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 09:01:18PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > Package: grub-installer > Version: 1.29 > Severity: normal > X-Debbugs-CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I did an install from debian.exe with d-i dailies to install sid > (#473364). Unfortunately the /etc/grub.d/30_otheros that was generated >

Bug#473401: grub-installer: grub2 config for Windows partition does not boot

2008-03-30 Thread Paul Wise
Package: grub-installer Version: 1.29 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I did an install from debian.exe with d-i dailies to install sid (#473364). Unfortunately the /etc/grub.d/30_otheros that was generated did not allow me to boot Windows. Simply changing (hd0,0) to (hd0,1) fixed