Re: [PATCH] grub2 for Cygwin

2008-04-07 Thread Christian Franke
Pavel Roskin wrote: On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 14:44 +0200, Christian Franke wrote: OK, then I would suggest to (re)start with the small change for grub-mkdevicemap. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2007-12/msg00179.html The patch is still current and already got positive feedback

Re: Infinite loop regression due to recent change in hostfs.c

2008-04-07 Thread Christian Franke
Pavel Roskin wrote: Quoting Christian Franke <...>: You should either undo this change or remove extra calls to grub_hostfs_init/fini from grub-emu.c and grub-fstest.c. The latter might not work if it is necessary to init hostfs first for some reason. I've removed the extra calls. I don't se

Re: Some GRUB ideas

2008-04-07 Thread Colin D Bennett
komputes wrote: Something like that would be nice. Or at least a passing mention in menu.lst that Grub starts counting from 0 not 1 in its drive/partition designations--i.e. (hd0,1) = /dev/sda2, etc. That confuses a lot of newcommers to linux, who would appreciate a command that will help them

Re: Some GRUB ideas

2008-04-07 Thread komputes
Hi Robert, I had a few more ideas for GRUB that may be useful. A way for the user to know which hard drives/partitions are available to the computer in a "(hd0,0)" format which can then be used in a menu.lst file. This would greatly save time and confusion in the grub configuration process. T

Re: [NEW PATCH] os-prober output parser

2008-04-07 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Fabian Greffrath schrieb: Fine! However, should the script utilize the 'which' command or not? Allright, since I haven't heard any further complaints regarding the usage of the 'which' command, here's my proposed script. Please remove the UTF-8 crap from the shebang line if it is still there.