Re: Windows boot

2008-08-10 Thread Bean
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Viswesh S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I tried the loadbin,according to the instructions which you had given in > osdir.com > > " > linux loadbin.bin > initrd ntldr > > This method is not limited to grub2, it can also be used in boot > loaders which support

Re: Windows boot

2008-08-10 Thread Viswesh S
- Original Message From: Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: The development of GRUB 2 Sent: Friday, 8 August, 2008 4:00:41 PM Subject: Re: Windows boot On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Viswesh S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks,let me have a look at the chainloader command in gru

Re: grub-probe detects ext4 wronly as ext2

2008-08-10 Thread Javier Martín
El mié, 06-08-2008 a las 12:36 +0200, Felix Zielcke escribió: > Am Dienstag, den 05.08.2008, 19:23 +0200 schrieb Felix Zielcke: > > Am Freitag, den 04.07.2008, 03:20 +0200 schrieb Javier Martín: > > > > > That was it. I will post no more in this thread. Do whatever you please > > > with the patch

Re: [PATCH] grub-mkelfimage

2008-08-10 Thread Robert Millan
If there are no objections, I will check this in soon. The implicit idea is that later we could do the same renames for: efi -> grub-mkpeimage pc -> grub-mkrawimage or something like that. So if someone doesn't like this, it's better to bring it up now. On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 03:15:42PM

Re: [PATCH] New command checktime

2008-08-10 Thread Marco Gerards
Hi, Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I implement this command for grub4dos some time ago, now it's ported to grub2. > > Usage: > > checktime min hour day_of_month month day_of_week Personally I would prefer it if it worked a bit more GRUB2/bash like. So can you make this variables? For exam

Re: [PATCH] New command checktime

2008-08-10 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 11:15:53AM -0400, Isaac Dupree wrote: > > also, even if one's computer always stays in the same place, > Daylight Savings can change the timezone you're in, while > grub.cfg stays the same. > > What is it that we're doing when we "ignore" it > specifically? Assuming loc

Re: [PATCH] New command checktime

2008-08-10 Thread Isaac Dupree
Bean wrote: On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It wouldn't be hard to make update-grub gather time zone information from the host system and put it in a variable in grub.cfg, or something like that. Hi, Oh right, but the handling of timezone is not trivi

Re: [PATCH] Split of raid scan code

2008-08-10 Thread Bean
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 10:29 PM, Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 07:52:22PM +0800, Bean wrote: >> kern/partition.c partmap/pc.c partmap/apple.c partmap/gpt.c \ >> kern/fs.c kern/env.c fs/fshelp.c disk/lvm.c disk/raid.c \ >> + disk/mdraid.c \ >

Re: [PATCH] Split of raid scan code

2008-08-10 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 07:52:22PM +0800, Bean wrote: > kern/partition.c partmap/pc.c partmap/apple.c partmap/gpt.c \ > kern/fs.c kern/env.c fs/fshelp.c disk/lvm.c disk/raid.c \ > + disk/mdraid.c \ Perhaps it'd be a good idea to take the opportunity to add a "linux" prefix ther

Re: Decompressing error on latest rev. of svn?

2008-08-10 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 05:54:27PM +0800, y.volta wrote: > Hi, > > i check-out the latest revsion, and confiure it using all default > settings, but i failed to get the core.img to run. > by using the bochdbg, i get to know the decompress with sth. wrong, when i > jump to the grub_main(), t

Re: Problem booting grub2: can't find fd1

2008-08-10 Thread Sander Marechal
Sander Marechal wrote: > When I boot I get dropped into a rescue shell because grub can't find > fd1. The output of `ls`: > > (linuxvg-boot) (linuxvg-root) (linuxvg-swap) (hd0) (hd0,1) (hd0,2) > (hd0,3) (fd0) (fd1) > > Thing is, my server has no floppy drive. Thanks to Felix Zielcke it's now wor

Re: Bug#494383: grub-pc: Grub2 cannot find LVM volume groups with a dash (-) in the name

2008-08-10 Thread Sander Marechal
Felix Zielcke wrote: > Hello, > > Am Freitag, den 08.08.2008, 22:23 +0200 schrieb root: > >> grub-probe: error: Unknown device linux--vg-boot >> Autodetection of a file system module failed >> Please specify the module with the option "--modules" explicitly >> > > I never used LVM before so mayb

Re: [PATCH] Split of raid scan code

2008-08-10 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Sonntag, den 10.08.2008, 19:52 +0800 schrieb Bean: > Hi, > > This patch seperate the scan code from raid.c, and move it to > mdraid.c. raid.c only contain generic raid handling code now. This > make it much easier to extend to other raid layout, like various > fakeraids. > Really great that y

[PATCH] Split of raid scan code

2008-08-10 Thread Bean
Hi, This patch seperate the scan code from raid.c, and move it to mdraid.c. raid.c only contain generic raid handling code now. This make it much easier to extend to other raid layout, like various fakeraids. I also extend the function of grub-fstest so that it can be used to debug raid, for exam

Re: [PATCH] New command checktime

2008-08-10 Thread Bean
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 07:37:02PM +0800, Bean wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> The efi time service have time zone info, but pc cmos don't, although >> we can assume it's 0. But since pc is the platform for most user, I >> guess it'

Decompressing error on latest rev. of svn?

2008-08-10 Thread y.volta
Hi, i check-out the latest revsion, and confiure it using all default settings, but i failed to get the core.img to run. by using the bochdbg, i get to know the decompress with sth. wrong, when i jump to the grub_main(), the debug screen shows me "CPU_LOOP 1", the asm code is: "int 0xe8".

Re: [PATCH] New command checktime

2008-08-10 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 07:37:02PM +0800, Bean wrote: > > Hi, > > The efi time service have time zone info, but pc cmos don't, although > we can assume it's 0. But since pc is the platform for most user, I > guess it's not very useful. It wouldn't be hard to make update-grub gather time zone inf