Re: [SFS breaks PPC build] Re: GRUB 1.91 is released

2005-10-15 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 10/15/05, Cyril Plisko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > apparently sfs addition breaks PPC build. The attached patch fixed it for me, > but I am not sure I didn't miss something important. > Thank you Cyril. You probably saved me a pile of time scratching my head and wondering. Denn

ARM alignment fixes and Linux loader

2005-10-15 Thread Timothy Baldwin
First, unlike other ARM assemblers I've seen, GNU AS does not align sections to a 4 byte boundary by default. IMHO it should. This is fixed for grub2-patch3.diff (RISC OS core) by: http://www.majoroak.f2s.com/tim/grub/patches/grub2-patch7.diff.gz And for grub2-patch6.diff (Address space abstract

Re: gzio is broken

2005-10-15 Thread Timothy Baldwin
On Saturday 15 Oct 2005 21:53, Marco Gerards wrote: > Timothy Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Saturday 15 Oct 2005 18:34, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > >> On Saturday 15 October 2005 10:07 am, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > >> > > Problem 2: Reading gzip files all at once results in corruptio

[SFS breaks PPC build] Re: GRUB 1.91 is released

2005-10-15 Thread Cyril Plisko
On 10/15/05, Yoshinori K. Okuji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm happy to announce the release of GRUB 1.91. This is the second of > our prereleases leading up to GRUB 2.0. We encourage you to try it, as > we have done a significant amount of work towards GRUB 2. Note that this > release is mainly

Re: Fun abusing grub...

2005-10-15 Thread Christopher Caldwell
Greetings, The major thing preventing me from installing more was simply the amount of disk space on this poor thing. I wanted to have reasonably full installations (since this is a reference machine). Given smaller subsets of the varios OSs, I could surely have done more... I would like to ha

Re: Booting homebrew ELF kernel on NewWorld OpenFirmware 3.0?

2005-10-15 Thread Andrei Warkentin
Thanks for your help. Right now I've gotten to the point where I can print ``hello world'' and exit back to OpenFirmware. It is interesting though that I cannot ``boot'' it again (or for that matter launch BootX and procede back into OS X) until I reboot the machine. When I boot my own kernel

Re: gzio is broken

2005-10-15 Thread Marco Gerards
Timothy Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Saturday 15 Oct 2005 18:34, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: >> On Saturday 15 October 2005 10:07 am, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: >> > > Problem 2: Reading gzip files all at once results in corruption of the >> > > data. It can be exposed by this patch: >> >

Re: gzio is broken

2005-10-15 Thread Timothy Baldwin
On Saturday 15 Oct 2005 18:34, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > On Saturday 15 October 2005 10:07 am, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > > > Problem 2: Reading gzip files all at once results in corruption of the > > > data. It can be exposed by this patch: > > > > Can you investigate this problem? > > I don't

GRUB 1.91 is released

2005-10-15 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
I'm happy to announce the release of GRUB 1.91. This is the second of our prereleases leading up to GRUB 2.0. We encourage you to try it, as we have done a significant amount of work towards GRUB 2. Note that this release is mainly for developers who are willing to contribute to our project. If y

Re: Fun abusing grub...

2005-10-15 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Saturday 15 October 2005 06:59 pm, Dennis Clarke wrote: > On 10/15/05, Christopher Caldwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > I didn't try to break any records, but I did try to make a good > > reference machine for each of these operating systems and > > get real experience abou

Re: gzio is broken

2005-10-15 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Saturday 15 October 2005 10:07 am, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > > Problem 2: Reading gzip files all at once results in corruption of the > > data. It can be exposed by this patch: > > Can you investigate this problem? I don't see any problem on my laptop (i386). So this might be specific to ARM.

Re: XFS support

2005-10-15 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Saturday 15 October 2005 11:28 am, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > grub> cat /home/yo/hobby/grub2/objs/fs-menu.lst > error: attempt to seek outside of the file > > I will take a look at this problem. Sorry. This problem was not concerned with XFS at all. It was due to a small bug in grub_file_seek

Re: Fun abusing grub...

2005-10-15 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 10/15/05, Christopher Caldwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, > > I didn't try to break any records, but I did try to make a good > reference machine for each of these operating systems and > get real experience about handling real devices. > > Enclosed, read the touching tale of my att

Fun abusing grub...

2005-10-15 Thread Christopher Caldwell
Greetings, I didn't try to break any records, but I did try to make a good reference machine for each of these operating systems and get real experience about handling real devices. Enclosed, read the touching tale of my attempts at installing 9 different operating systems under Grub. --Chris

Re: XFS support

2005-10-15 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Saturday 15 October 2005 01:11 pm, Marco Gerards wrote: > "Yoshinori K. Okuji" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Thursday 29 September 2005 01:12 am, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > >> Besides ls /dev and the slowness, it seems to be working. I will do more > >> tests on a native environment in thi

Re: XFS support

2005-10-15 Thread Marco Gerards
"Yoshinori K. Okuji" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thursday 29 September 2005 01:12 am, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: >> Besides ls /dev and the slowness, it seems to be working. I will do more >> tests on a native environment in this weekend. > > I fixed a few bugs, but it is still buggy. > > grub

XFS support

2005-10-15 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Thursday 29 September 2005 01:12 am, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > Besides ls /dev and the slowness, it seems to be working. I will do more > tests on a native environment in this weekend. I fixed a few bugs, but it is still buggy. grub> cat /home/yo/hobby/grub2/objs/fs-menu.lst error: attempt t

Re: gzio is broken

2005-10-15 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Saturday 15 October 2005 02:47 am, Timothy Baldwin wrote: > Problem 1: In the function test_header, the array buf is accessed via > pointers to grub_uint32_t and grub_uint16_t without ensuring correct > alignment of the pointers. This does not work on ARM. Fixed by: Thank you for your report.