Re: grub-setup Segmentation fault

2007-08-07 Thread Magnus Granberg
Sounds like I made the wrong guess, then. You need to figure out where's that null pointer coming from. Doesn't seem to be root_dev.. #1 0x08049385 in setup (prefix=0x80670b0 "(md0)(vg-boot)/grub", dir=0x8067008 "/boot/grub", boot_file=, core_file=0x805cb2a "core.img", root=0x8067050 "vg-b

Re: grub2 ChangeLog conf/i386-pc.rmk conf/powerpc-i...

2007-08-07 Thread Jerone Young
That sounds reasonable. So perhaps having a multiboot directory as Marco specified is the best way to go then. Let me know if this is an a way everyone agrees on and I'll get a patch together to make things nice for everyone. On 8/7/07, Yoshinori K. Okuji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > On

pending patches

2007-08-07 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
Hello, As you know, I am quite inactive these days, and haven't dealt with pending patches at all. But I am willing to solve them as soon as possible, thus I would appreciate if somebody could assist me. Unfortunately, due to my short memory, I even don't remember all of them. In addition, I no

Re: grub2 ChangeLog conf/i386-pc.rmk conf/powerpc-i...

2007-08-07 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
Hello, On Thursday 26 July 2007 00:28, Jerone Young wrote: > This was no mistake. So here is the thinking here (I figured this > would come up). The multiboot heads outside of the grub directory are > not grub specific. This gives other operating systems or programs (in > this case GPL 3 compatibl

Re: [PATCH] password command implementation

2007-08-07 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
Hello, > - md5.c/h comes from Grub Legacy, just a bit adapted to use Grub2 memory > functions (malloc, memset, endianness). Therefore, code works correctly, or > at least in a coherent way with respect to Grub Legacy. I can try to make > the code clearer if needed... Other code is made from scrat

Re: [PATCH] password command implementation

2007-08-07 Thread Jordi Mallach
On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 02:17:16PM +0200, Julien Ranc wrote: > - plain text passwords are indeed very insecure, but I kept them, as it was > possible in Grub legacy. Should I remove them ? I think there's plenty of people who will have use for plain, insecure passwords. The first security proble

Re: [PATCH] password command implementation

2007-08-07 Thread Marco Gerards
Julien RANC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi, > Here is my first patch for Grub2, so I hope it won't be too bad, and > by advance, all my apologies for the probable errors ;-) So, please, > comment gently... I'll try... :-) > These 2 patch add support for the 'password' command, with the syntax >

Re: [RFC] Porting of "password" and "lock" commands to Grub2

2007-08-07 Thread Marco Gerards
"Julien Ranc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi, > In my point of view, this is more consistent than the current Grub Legacy > implementation ('password sets a password, and "lock" locks until > authentification is OK) . It would also be easier to implement because when > executing a command, we cur