Re: [PATCH] Loading windows in macbook

2008-06-25 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Wednesday 25 June 2008 12:53:17 Bean wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 6:19 PM, Marco Gerards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 4:38 AM, Javier Martín <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> El mié, 25-06-2008 a las 04:11 +0800, Bean escribió:

Re: Failure to embed core.img is fatal now

2008-06-25 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 17:48 -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > It turns out following happens in grub-setup: > > - core.img is read by the OS facilities > - the memory image is modified > - the memory image is compared to core.img read by GRUB FS code and fails > - the memory image is modified again >

Re: Failure to embed core.img is fatal now

2008-06-25 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 03:02 +0200, Javier Martín wrote: > El mié, 25-06-2008 a las 17:48 -0400, Pavel Roskin escribió: > > I'm also surprised that the code alternately uses dir and > > DEFAULT_DIRECTORY to calculate core_path. core_path is calculated 3 > > times in one function! If dir and DEFAUL

Re: Failure to embed core.img is fatal now

2008-06-25 Thread Javier Martín
El mié, 25-06-2008 a las 17:48 -0400, Pavel Roskin escribió: > I'm also surprised that the code alternately uses dir and > DEFAULT_DIRECTORY to calculate core_path. core_path is calculated 3 > times in one function! If dir and DEFAULT_DIRECTORY are used correctly, > I suggest that two different v

Failure to embed core.img is fatal now

2008-06-25 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hello! I have a system with a hard drive with a geometry that doesn't leave space for GRUB to be embedded: Disk /dev/sda: 30.0 GB, 30020272128 bytes 64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 28629 cylinders Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes Disk identifier: 0xfafa98d2 Device Boot Start

Re: Can grub2 support c++ module? (Patch)

2008-06-25 Thread Christian Franke
Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: On Wednesday 18 June 2008 06:09:10 Pavel Roskin wrote: On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 10:22 +0800, y.volta wrote: Hi, I just wondering, can grub2 support module coded with c++? Let's suppose we are trying to apply the fancy menu. ;-) I think it can be done,

Re: [PATCH] New x86_64 EFI patch

2008-06-25 Thread Bean
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 8:50 PM, Isaac Dupree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bean wrote: >> >> I take a look at 0.9 source, the handling is the same. Are you sure >> you type the command exactly as it is ? >> >> appleloader HD >> boot > > what should I expect the result to be, given that refit is the

Re: [PATCH] New x86_64 EFI patch

2008-06-25 Thread Isaac Dupree
Bean wrote: I'm using the 2.6.25 kernel from debian sid, it works fine. I think ubuntu can use debian packages as well. To solve the screen problem, you need the following command line: video=efifb agp=off If you're interested, you can also try amd64 kernel. You can use it on 686 linux directly

Re: [PATCH] New x86_64 EFI patch

2008-06-25 Thread Isaac Dupree
Bean wrote: I take a look at 0.9 source, the handling is the same. Are you sure you type the command exactly as it is ? appleloader HD boot what should I expect the result to be, given that refit is the only thing that's ever touched my MBR since Apple's manufacturing? (so there's a fake par

Re: [PATCH] Loading windows in macbook

2008-06-25 Thread Bean
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 6:19 PM, Marco Gerards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 4:38 AM, Javier Martín <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> El mié, 25-06-2008 a las 04:11 +0800, Bean escribió: 2. Macbook will halt if we disable a20, so I add

Re: [PATCH] Loading windows in macbook

2008-06-25 Thread Marco Gerards
Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 4:38 AM, Javier Martín <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> El mié, 25-06-2008 a las 04:11 +0800, Bean escribió: >>> 2. Macbook will halt if we disable a20, so I add a new option >>> --keep-a20 to keep the a20 gate open. >> Does any OS fail to bo