Re: grub-pc: installation failure under linux + udev

2008-01-03 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 11:14:23PM +0100, Pascal A. Dupuis wrote: > Hello, > > this is a copy of debian bug 450709 > (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=450709) at > debian maintainer's (Robert Millan ) request: Thanks Pascal. > But ... util/biosdisk.c has another issue with detec

Re: Using UTF-8 in grub2 env

2008-01-03 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 06:29:54PM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 00:18 +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > > > I can't reproduce this. What's in your grub.cfg ? > > My bad. It has "terminal console" in it. It's just a standard grub.cfg > generated by update-grub. :-) -- Ro

Re: Using UTF-8 in grub2 env

2008-01-03 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 00:18 +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > I can't reproduce this. What's in your grub.cfg ? My bad. It has "terminal console" in it. It's just a standard grub.cfg generated by update-grub. Now I'm getting the graphical menu! -- Regards, Pavel Roskin __

Re: Using UTF-8 in grub2 env

2008-01-03 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 03:35:57PM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 21:22 +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 12:49:04PM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote: > > > > > > The menu doesn't work in gfxterm yet. > > > > It works for me. What problem did you find? > >

Re: Using UTF-8 in grub2 env

2008-01-03 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 21:22 +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 12:49:04PM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote: > > > > The menu doesn't work in gfxterm yet. > > It works for me. What problem did you find? When in qemu, "configfile (ata2)/grub.cfg" switches to the text mode and then sh

Re: Using UTF-8 in grub2 env

2008-01-03 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 12:49:04PM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote: > > The menu doesn't work in gfxterm yet. It works for me. What problem did you find? -- 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: Using UTF-8 in grub2 env

2008-01-03 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 04:55:16PM +, Oleg Strikov wrote: > Good day! > Is there any way to grub_printf() UTF-8 string? > I wanna make some i18n output using cyrillic symbols (with L"strings"), but > i get only "?" :( Did you setup gfxterm as per instructions in http://grub.enbug.org/gfxte

Re: Conditional Statement in Grub 2

2008-01-03 Thread Antonio Dupont
I think I found the archives in bug-grub. Sorry I didn't see it earlier. Antonio ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: git mirror available

2008-01-03 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Mon, 2007-12-24 at 14:29 +0800, Bean wrote: > I guess we could put the mirror in a public hosting, such as: > > http://repo.or.cz/ > > so that it's more reliable. Thanks for the suggestion. I wasn't aware that it's so easy to resister a project on that site. I have created a mirror there:

Re: Using UTF-8 in grub2 env

2008-01-03 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 16:55 +, Oleg Strikov wrote: > Good day! > Is there any way to grub_printf() UTF-8 string? > I wanna make some i18n output using cyrillic symbols (with > L"strings"), but i get only "?" :( > Thanks! You need to load a Unicode font and switch to the graphical mode wi

Using UTF-8 in grub2 env

2008-01-03 Thread Oleg Strikov
Good day! Is there any way to grub_printf() UTF-8 string? I wanna make some i18n output using cyrillic symbols (with L"strings"), but i get only "?" :( Thanks! ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-d

Re: [PATCH] allow user-configurable menucolor

2008-01-03 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 06:04:59PM +0200, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: > > About error handling: > > Why not call grub_error() with error message and just return from > callback, and let prompt handle error processing (grub_print_error()). > This would keep error reporting centralized. One thing I d

Re: Conditional Statement in Grub 2

2008-01-03 Thread Antonio Dupont (Moose Factory)
Thanks for the reply Gregg. I think 0.97 is the path I will explore further. One last question. Do you know where the legacy archives are. I couldn't find them. Regards, Antonio - Original Message - From: "Gregg Levine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "The development of GRUB 2" Sent: W

Re: Testing on PowerMac G4

2008-01-03 Thread Pavel Roskin
Quoting Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 10:28:46AM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote: Quoting Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>The module base address is calculated separately in kernel.elf and in >>grub-mkimage. kernel.elf uses the "_end" symbol, whereas grub-mkimage >

Re: [PATCH] allow user-configurable menucolor

2008-01-03 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Robert Millan wrote: > On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 02:04:14AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: >>> So, if you don't hesitate to create so many variables, you can simply >>> create "normal_color", "normal_background_color", "highlight_color" >>> and "highlight_background_color", although I don't know who w

Re: Testing on PowerMac G4

2008-01-03 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 10:28:46AM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote: > Quoting Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >>The module base address is calculated separately in kernel.elf and in > >>grub-mkimage. kernel.elf uses the "_end" symbol, whereas grub-mkimage > >>looks for the ELF segment with the h

Re: Transparent decompression with file system filter

2008-01-03 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Bean wrote: > On Jan 3, 2008 7:19 AM, Yoshinori K. Okuji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Please wait a minute. Personally, I don't want grub_file_open to decompress a >> content automatically. The name should stand for what it does. That was why I >> named grub_file_open and grub_gzfile_open like thi

Re: [PATCH] allow user-configurable menucolor

2008-01-03 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 02:04:14AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > > So, if you don't hesitate to create so many variables, you can simply > > create "normal_color", "normal_background_color", "highlight_color" > > and "highlight_background_color", although I don't know who would like it. > > Soun

Re: variable hooks & global variables

2008-01-03 Thread Robert Millan
I propose this patch to preserve hooks only when variables are already marked as global. Additionally, it exports "root" variable. On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 04:05:58PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 04:03:11PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > > > > When you set a variable hook

Re: Testing on PowerMac G4

2008-01-03 Thread Pavel Roskin
Quoting Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: The module base address is calculated separately in kernel.elf and in grub-mkimage. kernel.elf uses the "_end" symbol, whereas grub-mkimage looks for the ELF segment with the highest end address. Ok, so you mean this setting: phdr->p_vaddr = grub_

multiboot.texi

2008-01-03 Thread Robert Millan
I'd like to copy grub/docs/multiboot.texi into grub2 CVS, and start providing it as part of the docs. The copyright holders are: Copyright @copyright{} 1995,96 Bryan Ford Copyright @copyright{} 1995,96 Erich Stefan Boleyn Copyright @copyright{} 1999,2000,2001,2002,2005,2006 Free Softwa

Re: variable hooks & global variables

2008-01-03 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 04:03:11PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > > When you set a variable hook (grub_register_variable_hook), this hook isn't > preserved after someone (e.g. configfile command) opens a new context > (grub_env_context_open), unless the variable has been set as global > (grub_env_e

variable hooks & global variables

2008-01-03 Thread Robert Millan
When you set a variable hook (grub_register_variable_hook), this hook isn't preserved after someone (e.g. configfile command) opens a new context (grub_env_context_open), unless the variable has been set as global (grub_env_export). Is this what we want? The only current user of variable hooks i

Re: Transparent decompression with file system filter

2008-01-03 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 08:53:19PM +0800, Bean wrote: > On Jan 3, 2008 7:35 PM, Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How does grub_zfile_open differ from grub_gzfile_open ? > > grub_gzfile_open only handle gzip file, while grub_zfile_open handle > compressed file in general. when module li

Re: Transparent decompression with file system filter

2008-01-03 Thread Bean
On Jan 3, 2008 7:35 PM, Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How does grub_zfile_open differ from grub_gzfile_open ? grub_gzfile_open only handle gzip file, while grub_zfile_open handle compressed file in general. when module like gzio starts, it register a structure that grub_zfile_open wou

Re: Testing on PowerMac G4

2008-01-03 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 03:09:17AM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote: > Quoting Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >just take the grub-mkimage.c part of it and try to revert it on CVS HEAD, > >that would confirm it's a grub-mkimage problem. Then apply the hunks > >selectively untill you find the exac

Re: [PATCH] grub-probe && FreeBSD

2008-01-03 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 08:59:04PM -0500, Francis Gendreau wrote: > > Also, if someone can email-me how to uses diff so I can create patch in > a single file, it would be greatly appreciated. :) diff -urp grub.old grub.new -r for recursive. -u is needed to prevent everyone's eyes from bleedin

Re: Conditional Statement in Grub 2

2008-01-03 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 01:11:56AM -, Antonio Dupont wrote: > > > Hello, > > I apologize if this is the wrong list, but this is the list I have found > through my searches. Please tell me where to go if this is not the proper > place. > > I would like to have grub do a conditional stateme

Re: spam in commit-grub

2008-01-03 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 11:19:20PM -0500, Gregg C Levine wrote: > Hello! > Who's the list-admin for commit-grub? I am thinking I can take that cover > for a few weeks and see what happens. And what about resetting the list so > that it requires a moderator to accept all posts, that way if something

Re: Transparent decompression with file system filter

2008-01-03 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 04:49:24PM +0800, Bean wrote: > On Jan 3, 2008 7:19 AM, Yoshinori K. Okuji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Monday 31 December 2007 17:59, Bean wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Changes in this new patch: > > > > > > 1, change function name grub_file_open_raw to grub_file_ro

Re: Transparent decompression with file system filter

2008-01-03 Thread Bean
On Jan 3, 2008 7:19 AM, Yoshinori K. Okuji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday 31 December 2007 17:59, Bean wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Changes in this new patch: > > > > 1, change function name grub_file_open_raw to grub_file_ropen > > 2, replace grub_file_open in command/blocklist.c and > > util/

Re: Testing on PowerMac G4

2008-01-03 Thread Pavel Roskin
Quoting Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: just take the grub-mkimage.c part of it and try to revert it on CVS HEAD, that would confirm it's a grub-mkimage problem. Then apply the hunks selectively untill you find the exact change that broke it. And finally it's just a matter of "looking hard"