Re: grub2 efi patches

2007-11-05 Thread Alexandre Boeglin
On Sun, 4 Nov 2007 01:21:24 +0100, Alexandre Boeglin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 01:04:24AM +0100, Alexandre Boeglin a écrit : >> Sorry, there was a mistake in the previous one ... > Oops, and line 91 of this one should be Hi, here is a "more correct" version of this patch

Re: Outline menu

2007-11-05 Thread Markus Elfring
> And then add something like: > set menumode=outline > set menumode=hierarchical (or normal, default) Can a data format like it is specified by the outline markup language be supported by the GRUB 2 boot loader? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OML Is an alternative specification needed in this cont

Re: How do I boot a standalone program in grub (a password checker via serial input) before allowing grub to continue booting?

2007-11-05 Thread Christopher Walker
I know someone was working on this. I need to create my own program for personal use. On 11/5/07, Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 09:58:37AM -0700, CurlyCoconutTree wrote: > > > > How do I boot a standalone program in grub (1.95) (a password checker > via > >

Re: How to display more than 8 menu entries?

2007-11-05 Thread Markus Elfring
> Or otherwise switch to GRUB 2 for what you were trying to do. Which configuration options provide support for adjustable list boxes? Regards, Markus ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: How do I boot a standalone program in grub (a password checker via serial input) before allowing grub to continue booting?

2007-11-05 Thread Andrei E. Warkentin
I think the actual question should have been worded more like "is it possible to return control to GRUB from a booted (say) Multiboot kernel, provided nothing (say) below 1MB is touched...". Is it possible? I'm curious myself. Andrei Evgenievich Warkentin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: (+1)

LinuxBIOS port in the wiki

2007-11-05 Thread Robert Millan
Hi, I've added a page in the GRUB wiki for tracking the status of the LinuxBIOS port: http://grub.enbug.org/LinuxBIOS -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) __

Re: PC partitions and big disks

2007-11-05 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 04:17:50PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > > void > +grub_util_warn (const char *fmt, ...) > +{ > + va_list ap; > + > + fprintf (stderr, "%s: warning: ", progname); > + va_start (ap, fmt); > + vfprintf (stderr, fmt, ap); > + va_end (ap); > + fputc ('\n', stderr)

Re: Outline menu

2007-11-05 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Markus Elfring wrote: > I suggest to add the capability to present the menu as an outline. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline#Sample_alphanumeric_outline > > Example boot menu: > A) Windows: > - XP > - Vista > > B) Linux: > - Knoppix > - Debian > * Etch > - Red Hat > * Fedora > - openSUSE

Re: Outline menu

2007-11-05 Thread Robert Millan
Vesa asked for feedback on GUI design a while ago. CCing! On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 08:20:22PM +0100, Markus Elfring wrote: > Hello, > > I suggest to add the capability to present the menu as an outline. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline#Sample_alphanumeric_outline > > Example boot menu: >

Re: How do I boot a standalone program in grub (a password checker via serial input) before allowing grub to continue booting?

2007-11-05 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 09:58:37AM -0700, CurlyCoconutTree wrote: > > How do I boot a standalone program in grub (1.95) (a password checker via > serial input) before allowing grub to continue booting? I'm trying to > develop a program that will run, stand alone or with the libraries Grub > gives

Re: How to display more than 8 menu entries?

2007-11-05 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 07:03:52PM +0100, Markus Elfring wrote: > Hello, > > I get up to eight boot menu entries presented on the graphical user interface > at > the moment. But I need more options to select between the bootable systems. I > do > not see a command for the specification of a high

Re: Compile Grub2 in pure 64 bits ?

2007-11-05 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 03:32:24PM +, Ghotcom wrote: > Re, > > well, there isn t much more in config.log. anyhow, from what I understand I > won t go anywhere with Grub and pure 64 bits ? Not untill someone volunteers to debug the problem (it really isn't trivial). Besides, you can never get

Re: Grub 2 functionality

2007-11-05 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 01:43:19PM -0700, Scott A Tovey wrote: > Hi, > > I have two questions. > > 1. Will grub2 be taking over the hard drive > recognition from the BIOS? > > I believe that the Max OS X boots without using > the BIOS hard drive IO. This allows the OS to > boot on any hardware r

Re: Grub Memory Map - Processor

2007-11-05 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 12:14:53PM -0500, Andrei E. Warkentin wrote: > Juan, > > You may use the CPUID instruction to correctly identify the processor > your code is executing on. GRUB does not provide such information as > part of the Multiboot info. Ah, uhm right. I was thinking in terms o

Re: Grub Memory Map - Processor

2007-11-05 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 10:00:43AM -0700, Juan_2007 wrote: > > I need to make a Project for the University and i wanted to know if any of > you guys, knew if the Grub left any information regarding the type of > microprocessor that the computer is using. i know the grub leaves > information about

PC partitions and big disks

2007-11-05 Thread Robert Millan
This should make the error much clearer when partition exceeds 2 TiB on a PC partition map (currently, all user gets is a "out of partition" error which is hard to figure out if you're unaware of the 2 TiB limit). Comments? -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What use is