Re: how to increase commandline size (patch + changelog)

2006-10-09 Thread Marco Gerards
Jeff Chua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > >>> Shall I use '#ifdef __linux__' to include only on linux, and >>> '#define COMMAND_LINE_SIZE 255' for non-linux system? >> > 5B> Well, does this number change often? If not, let's just copy it. >> >> If so, t

Re: how to increase commandline size (patch + changelog)

2006-10-09 Thread Marco Gerards
Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 11:08 +0800, Jeff Chua wrote: >> On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, Hollis Blanchard wrote: >> >> >> +#include >> > >> > I don't think this is a good idea because it requires we build on a >> > Linux host. >> >> Shall I use '#ifdef __linux__

Re: how to increase commandline size (patch + changelog)

2006-10-09 Thread Jeff Chua
On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, Hollis Blanchard wrote: Shall I use '#ifdef __linux__' to include only on linux, and '#define COMMAND_LINE_SIZE 255' for non-linux system? 5B> Well, does this number change often? If not, let's just copy it. If so, then we're screwed anyways because asm/param.h would o

Re: how to increase commandline size (patch + changelog)

2006-10-09 Thread Hollis Blanchard
On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 11:08 +0800, Jeff Chua wrote: > On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > > >> +#include > > > > I don't think this is a good idea because it requires we build on a > > Linux host. > > Shall I use '#ifdef __linux__' to include only on linux, and > '#define COMMAND_LINE

Re: how to increase commandline size (patch + changelog)

2006-10-09 Thread Jeff Chua
On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, Hollis Blanchard wrote: +#include I don't think this is a good idea because it requires we build on a Linux host. Shall I use '#ifdef __linux__' to include only on linux, and '#define COMMAND_LINE_SIZE 255' for non-linux system? Sorry, I only thought of using grub2 on

Re: how to increase commandline size (patch + changelog)

2006-10-09 Thread Hollis Blanchard
On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 09:03 +0800, Jeff Chua wrote: > > +#include I don't think this is a good idea because it requires we build on a Linux host. -Hollis ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-deve

Re: how to increase commandline size (patch + changelog)

2006-10-09 Thread Jeff Chua
On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Jeff Chua wrote: Here's with ChangeLog included. On Sun, 8 Oct 2006, Marco Gerards wrote: It seems to stop at 256 characters counting the input length That's weird. Could you please have a look at loader/i386/pc/linux.c to see if it gets the entire line or just a pa

Re: how to increase commandline size (fwd)

2006-10-09 Thread Jeff Chua
On Sun, 8 Oct 2006, Marco Gerards wrote: It seems to stop at 256 characters counting the input length That's weird. Could you please have a look at loader/i386/pc/linux.c to see if it gets the entire line or just a part. Perhaps this limitation is in the protocol used to pass the command li

Re: Reiserfs v3 support for grub 2 (alpha version)

2006-10-09 Thread Hollis Blanchard
Thanks for sending this out Vincent! I had an opportunity to test it. It works well enough to mount a filesystem, but unfortunately beyond that it was rather flaky: grub> ls -l (disk,3)/boot DIR symtypes-2.6.16.21-0.8-ppc64.gz/ DIR vmlinux-2.6.16.21-0.8-ppc6

,Grub & Windows

2006-10-09 Thread Dick Barmann
As usuall I had to reinstill Windows. Now I cannot get to Kubuntu. I can use a start disck to gae to the install section and open a terminal. The last time this happened I could go to a terminal in kubuntu and get to grub. I do not remember how I proceeded from there. Please help/ Thanks Dick Barm

Re: Scripting (IMPORTANT!)

2006-10-09 Thread tgingold
Quoting Marco Gerards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi, a few remarks: [...] > > Menu entries > > > Menu entries are added with `menuentry' (or its alias `@'). It's > important to notice this is not a command. Because it's part of the > scripting syntax, it can have unique feat

net boot howto ?

2006-10-09 Thread Frédéric BOITEUX
Hello, I'd like to test grub2 through netboot (I previously succesfully use old grub with etherboot or pxe interfaces). I've downloaded latest grub2 Debian source package (version 1.94+20060926-1) and compiled it, and look for information on the wiki, but without success now. In the wi