Re: Command extension suggestions

2007-06-14 Thread Marco Gerards
Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 01:50:38PM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: >> Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 12:49:26PM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: >> >> Well, I see the problem but I do not agree with the solution. >> >> >> >> The problem

Re: Command extension suggestions

2007-06-14 Thread Bean
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 01:50:38PM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: > Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 12:49:26PM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: > >> Well, I see the problem but I do not agree with the solution. > >> > >> The problem for GRUB 2 is that initrd is very linux s

Re: QEMU and ElTorito and EDD 3

2007-06-14 Thread Alex Roman
On 13/06/07, Alex Roman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We might have to read the boot catalog manually, not with the 4Dh function to achieve more compatibility. Tonight I'll try to do an "Extended Read", function 42h, to get the boot catalog and parse it in a structure and see if it "makes sense".

Re: Command extension suggestions

2007-06-14 Thread Marco Gerards
Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 12:49:26PM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: >> Well, I see the problem but I do not agree with the solution. >> >> The problem for GRUB 2 is that initrd is very linux specific. It's >> part of a loader. Perhaps we either have to extend loopb

Re: Command extension suggestions

2007-06-14 Thread Bean
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 12:49:26PM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: > Well, I see the problem but I do not agree with the solution. > > The problem for GRUB 2 is that initrd is very linux specific. It's > part of a loader. Perhaps we either have to extend loopback to load a > file into memory on befo

Re: Command extension suggestions

2007-06-14 Thread Marco Gerards
Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 11:42:24AM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: >> Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> [...] >> >> >> That sounds much cleaner IMHO. But IIRC (md) is already in use by the >> >> RAID/LVM stuff ? >> >> >> > >> > Maybe (mem) ? >> >> When woul

Re: Command extension suggestions

2007-06-14 Thread Bean
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 11:42:24AM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: > Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > >> That sounds much cleaner IMHO. But IIRC (md) is already in use by the > >> RAID/LVM stuff ? > >> > > > > Maybe (mem) ? > > When would this be useful? You can use it to dump physi

Re: Command extension suggestions

2007-06-14 Thread Marco Gerards
Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] >> That sounds much cleaner IMHO. But IIRC (md) is already in use by the >> RAID/LVM stuff ? >> > > Maybe (mem) ? When would this be useful? > Also, I don't know if GRUB2 kernel support initrd. You can start grub4dos > like this: > > kernel /grub.exe > i