Bug#491376: recipe for BIOS-based boot on gpt

2009-08-28 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 02:10:42PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > Firstly, at this point I am thoroughly convinced that something like > this patch is necessary, and I think the tone being taken with the > original submitter has been out of order; driving people away from > making improvements to d-i

Bug#491376: recipe for BIOS-based boot on gpt

2009-08-28 Thread Colin Watson
Firstly, at this point I am thoroughly convinced that something like this patch is necessary, and I think the tone being taken with the original submitter has been out of order; driving people away from making improvements to d-i is not what we want to do, considering our limited developer base! Ye

Bug#491376: recipe for BIOS-based boot on gpt

2008-08-09 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 10:17:34PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > 1) The use-case is insufficiently clear > > The reason _why_ a separate partition is required at all has (at least for > me) not been sufficiently explained. So far my impression is that all > this is just one huge ugly hack needed

Bug#491376: recipe for BIOS-based boot on gpt

2008-08-09 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 06 August 2008, Robert Millan wrote: > Attached patch makes it generate the x86 variant dynamicaly at build > time, as requested by Jérémy on IRC. This patch gets a huge NACK from me. 1) The use-case is insufficiently clear The reason _why_ a separate partition is required at all ha

Bug#491376: recipe for BIOS-based boot on gpt

2008-08-06 Thread Robert Millan
Attached patch makes it generate the x86 variant dynamicaly at build time, as requested by Jérémy on IRC. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to

Bug#491376: recipe for BIOS-based boot on gpt

2008-08-04 Thread Robert Millan
So what do we do about this? I wouldn't want to miss the deadline... On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 06:41:13PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 01:59:40PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > > > on a system where core.img was embedded, nothing will happen. OTOH if you > > do > > the

Bug#491376: recipe for BIOS-based boot on gpt

2008-07-27 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 01:59:40PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > on a system where core.img was embedded, nothing will happen. OTOH if you do > the same on a system where core.img was referenced via blocklists, boot will > start crashing as soon as the (now free) blocks that held the old core.i

Bug#491376: recipe for BIOS-based boot on gpt

2008-07-27 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 05:03:01PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 09:08:56AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > > > Ok, so here are two patches. One of them using recipes-x86, and the other > > simply modifiing recipes. > > > > The first one expects recipes-x86 has been creat

Bug#491376: recipe for BIOS-based boot on gpt

2008-07-25 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 09:08:56AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > Ok, so here are two patches. One of them using recipes-x86, and the other > simply modifiing recipes. > > The first one expects recipes-x86 has been created previously via "svn copy". So is either of these okay? -- Robert Mill

Bug#491376: recipe for BIOS-based boot on gpt

2008-07-20 Thread Robert Millan
Ok, so here are two patches. One of them using recipes-x86, and the other simply modifiing recipes. The first one expects recipes-x86 has been created previously via "svn copy". -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What good is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (

Bug#491376: recipe for BIOS-based boot on gpt

2008-07-19 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 02:10:30PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Saturday 19 July 2008, Robert Millan wrote: > > This patch adds a recipe for creating a BIOS boot partition when > > installing on GPT. Note the amd64 directory is not included with the > > patch, as I would suggest just using a symli

Bug#491376: recipe for BIOS-based boot on gpt

2008-07-19 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 19 July 2008, Robert Millan wrote: > This patch adds a recipe for creating a BIOS boot partition when > installing on GPT. Note the amd64 directory is not included with the > patch, as I would suggest just using a symlink for that (or otherwise > copying it). I assume that you did an

Bug#491376: recipe for BIOS-based boot on gpt

2008-07-18 Thread Robert Millan
Package: partman-auto Version: 79 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hi, This patch adds a recipe for creating a BIOS boot partition when installing on GPT. Note the amd64 directory is not included with the patch, as I would suggest just using a symlink for that (or otherwise copying it). -- System