Re: Linking

2008-07-24 Thread Pavel Roskin
Quoting Viswesh S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi Pavel, Could you please attach the modified file ? Viswesh No, I'm just giving you an idea what you may be doing wrong. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.

Re: Linking

2008-07-24 Thread Viswesh S
Hi Pavel, Could you pleaseĀ attach the modified file ? Viswesh - Original Message From: Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: grub-devel@gnu.org Sent: Friday, 25 July, 2008 11:05:49 AM Subject: Re: Linking Quoting Viswesh S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I have modified the conf/common.mk accor

Re: Linking

2008-07-24 Thread Pavel Roskin
Quoting Viswesh S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I have modified the conf/common.mk accordingly as shown below. It's a generated file. Please modify conf/common.rmk instead and run autogen.sh. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-de

Linking

2008-07-24 Thread Viswesh S
Hi, I am quite new to grub2 anf I find some issue in make of grub2 I modify the hello module by adding a new file a.c, with a function test() in it. I call the function test from hello entry point - grub_cmd_hello() When I do a make, I get the error that test in hello is not defined make: *** [mo

Re: Next release?

2008-07-24 Thread Christian Franke
Pavel Roskin wrote: On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 19:02 +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: Hi, Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ... By the way, that check could be generalized to allow more symbols, such as "Ltext0" on Cygwin. It would be great if GRUB 1.97 compiled on Cygwin out-of-box.

Re: gfxterm distinction between fg color and cursor color

2008-07-24 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:18:40 +0200 Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why does gfxterm make a distinction between foreground color and > cursor color? Do we really want this? > > Currently, the variable-based hooks for changing colors have no > effect in cursor color because of this. >

Re: [PATCH] update-grub for Cygwin

2008-07-24 Thread Christian Franke
Christian Franke wrote: This patch allows to run update-grub on Cygwin. ... and here is a simple example for /etc/grub.d/10_cygwin Only adds current OS yet. Christian diff --git a/util/grub.d/10_cygwin.in b/util/grub.d/10_cygwin.in new file mode 100644 index 000..1dd1116 --- /dev/null ++

[PATCH] update-grub for Cygwin

2008-07-24 Thread Christian Franke
This patch allows to run update-grub on Cygwin. Christian 2008-07-24 Christian Franke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * util/update-grub.in: Add a check for admin group for Cygwin. Add `-f' to `rm' and `mv' of grub.cfg to handle the different filesystem semantics on Window

Re: [PATCH] Abort grub-install if prefix cannot be determined

2008-07-24 Thread Christian Franke
Christian Franke wrote: grub-install does not check error return from make_system_path_relative_to_its_root() fails. BTW: Unlike the other scripts, grub-install does not 'set -e'. Is this intentional or historic ?-) Christian 2008-07-24Christian Franke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [PATCH] grub-probe -t prefix, fix update-grub_lib for Cygwin

2008-07-24 Thread Christian Franke
Christian Franke wrote: Robert Millan wrote: On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 02:40:14PM +0200, Christian Franke wrote: The shell function make_system_path_relative_to_its_root() does not work on Cygwin due to path mapping (e.g. /boot/grub/ is actually /cygwin/boot/grub). This patch adds '-t prefix

Re: Issue with boot != root and chainloading

2008-07-24 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 13:00 +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote: > Sorry for my third mail, I really should think more before writing :( > sdb needs to be in device.map else grub-install luckly complains about it. grub-install always complains about device.map. Even if it does a single-drive install and

Re: Next release?

2008-07-24 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 19:02 +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: > Hi, > > Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Now that we have lzma compression, we should probably consider making > > another release in a week or two. > > > > Before it happens, I'd like to add a configure test for working targ

Re: Next release?

2008-07-24 Thread Marco Gerards
Hi, Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now that we have lzma compression, we should probably consider making > another release in a week or two. > > Before it happens, I'd like to add a configure test for working target > compiler, so that users of pure x86_64 machines are not surprised b

gfxterm distinction between fg color and cursor color

2008-07-24 Thread Robert Millan
Why does gfxterm make a distinction between foreground color and cursor color? Do we really want this? Currently, the variable-based hooks for changing colors have no effect in cursor color because of this. How about supressing separate handling of cursor color, and simply use the foreground co

Re: [PATCH] New tool to convert pe image to elf

2008-07-24 Thread Bean
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Christian Franke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bean wrote: >>> >>> ... >>> Another real world test (grub-install on an USB flash drive and boot) >>> works. >>> >>> Patch is IMO good to go. >>> >>> >>> Then only the fix for >>> update-grub-lib:make_system_path_relativ

Re: Issue with boot != root and chainloading

2008-07-24 Thread Felix Zielcke
From: "Felix Zielcke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Maybe this Debian bug ? :) For the reporter fd0 wasn't in device.map http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=467501 Sorry for my third mail, I really should think more before writing :( sdb needs to be in device.map else grub-install luc

Re: Issue with boot != root and chainloading

2008-07-24 Thread Felix Zielcke
From: "Felix Zielcke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ... Now did the same with my other disk and it worked. I forgot I did first the mistake grub-install /dev/sdb which I never did before. I'll try if I can reproduce this somehow. the VM hasn't a floppy assigned, and I've disabled floppy disk and controlle

Re: [PATCH] File readahead buffering

2008-07-24 Thread Bean
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:56 PM, Colin D Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:33:32 -0700 > Colin D Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:05:36 +0800 >> Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 3:06 AM, Colin D Bennett <[EMAIL

Re: Issue with boot != root and chainloading

2008-07-24 Thread Felix Zielcke
From: "Felix Zielcke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 4:01 PM To: "The development of GRUB 2" Subject: Re: Issue with boot != root and chainloading From: "Pavel Roskin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I've seen that fd1 somewhere, but I don't remember where. I guess GRUB just defaults