Re: Results of the second run of research about ext4 support in bootloaders

2009-07-03 Thread Guido Günther
On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 06:58:14PM +0200, Stefano Canepa wrote: > Hi all, > I continued my research about ext4 support in bootloaders and this is > the result till now: > ext4 support > > * grub: amd64, i386, powerpc w/ ubuntu patch > * grub2: amd64, i386, powerpc > * lilo-instal

Re: Results of the second run of research about ext4 support in bootloaders

2009-06-23 Thread Wartan Hachaturow
2009/6/2 Stefano Canepa : > Looks without ext4 support > >    * yaboot: powerpc BTW, while I am at it: yaboot's second stage uses libext2fs to access ext2/ext3 filesystems, so I guess (since modern e2fsprogs seem to include ext4 support) it should be okay with ext4. I didn't test it myself yet, th

Re: Results of the second run of research about ext4 support in bootloaders

2009-06-23 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 11:17:04AM +, Etienne Lorrain wrote: > > Hello, > > May I ask what would it take to have the Gujin bootloader added to > this list, URL: http://gujin.sourceforge.net. It is a "newer" > bootloader, but there isn't any Debian package for it, That would be a first s

Re: Results of the second run of research about ext4 support in bootloaders

2009-06-22 Thread Etienne Lorrain
Hello, May I ask what would it take to have the Gujin bootloader added to this list, URL: http://gujin.sourceforge.net. It is a "newer" bootloader, but there isn't any Debian package for it, I have never made a Debian package before. Just fetching the source code and typing "make" will produ

Re: Results of the second run of research about ext4 support in bootloaders

2009-06-03 Thread Otavio Salvador
Hello, 2009/6/2 Stefano Canepa : [...] > Looks without ext4 support > >    * aboot: alpha >    * yaboot: powerpc >    * arcboot: mips >    * silo: sparc >    * delo: mipsel >    * sibyl: mips, mipsel >    * prep: powerpc >    * palo: hppa What people think we ought to do in this case? I think th

Re: Results of the second run of research about ext4 support in bootloaders

2009-06-02 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Stefano Canepa [2009-06-02 18:58]: > Looks without ext4 support colo (mipsel) is probably missing from that list. > * delo: mipsel delo is not used in d-i anymore (the devices supported by delo are no longer supported by d-i or the Debian kernel). -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.co