Help with Grub2

2009-01-31 Thread BandiPat
Ok, I've poured over this for 2 days now, so find myself needing some expert help! Let me go over what I have done. I'll try to give as much details as possible. If you don't see it, just ask. Compiled and installed grub2. Remove LILO from MBR. Ran grub-install /dev/sda. Run grub-setup /

Re: what RAID levels does GRUB2 support?

2009-01-31 Thread Dave Abrahams
Felix Zielcke z-51.de> writes: > > Will GRUB2 boot a Linux system from such RAID levels without a separate > > /boot partition? > > the SVN version supports everything from the Linux Software RAID > RAID 0,1,10,4,5,6 and multipath which is just mapped to RAID 1 in > grub2's code Sooo... * Wil

[PATCH] Allow to install in non-default prefixes

2009-01-31 Thread phcoder
This patch adds -p option for grub-setup on i386-pc. Without it install to any prefix different from /boot/grub failed Thank Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko Index: util/i386/pc/grub-setup.c === --- util/i386/pc/grub-setup.c (revision

Re: [PATCH] 5/5 Graphical menu (gfxmenu)

2009-01-31 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Hi, As this patch is quite large and I am going go to sleep soon so I only comment your message on this run... Colin D Bennett wrote: > This long-awaited patch adds graphical menu support to GRUB 2. It is > largely the result of my work during the Google Summer of Code 2008. And thanks for it!

Re: [PATCH] 4/5 Videotest enhancements

2009-01-31 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Colin D Bennett wrote: > This patch improves the videotest command by adding a number of > different tests for particular features. The 'videotest text' test > tests the rendering of Unicode UTF-8 text, for instance, and the > 'videotest bench' command runs a video performance benchmark. The > or

Re: [PATCH] 3/5 Bitmap scaling

2009-01-31 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Colin D Bennett wrote: > This patch adds bitmap scaling support to GRUB. > > It also adds support to gfxterm for scaling the background image to fit > the screen. The background_image command supports a new -m/--mode > option, which takes "stretch" (the default) or "normal" as values. > > The pa

Re: [PATCH] 2/5 VBE double buffering

2009-01-31 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Colin D Bennett wrote: > This patch adds double buffering support support to the VBE > video driver including page flipping and blitting from an offscreen back > buffer. > > The patch is against GRUB trunk revision 1964. Unless we come up with better idea we can go with this time being... Check t

Re: [PATCH] 1/5 Multiple fallback entries

2009-01-31 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Colin D Bennett wrote: > This patch adds support for multiple fallback entries in grub.cfg. > > I'll prepare the ChangeLog entry when the patch is approved to be > committed. > > The patch is against GRUB trunk revision 1964. What do you think if all text menu related would be moved to own file,

[PATCH] 4/5 Videotest enhancements

2009-01-31 Thread Colin D Bennett
This patch improves the videotest command by adding a number of different tests for particular features. The 'videotest text' test tests the rendering of Unicode UTF-8 text, for instance, and the 'videotest bench' command runs a video performance benchmark. The original videotest command is acces

[PATCH] 3/5 Bitmap scaling

2009-01-31 Thread Colin D Bennett
This patch adds bitmap scaling support to GRUB. It also adds support to gfxterm for scaling the background image to fit the screen. The background_image command supports a new -m/--mode option, which takes "stretch" (the default) or "normal" as values. The patch is against GRUB trunk revision 19

[PATCH] 2/5 VBE double buffering

2009-01-31 Thread Colin D Bennett
This patch adds double buffering support support to the VBE video driver including page flipping and blitting from an offscreen back buffer. The patch is against GRUB trunk revision 1964. Regards, Colin === modified file 'include/grub/video.h' --- include/grub/video.h 2009-01-02 15:26:06 + ++

[PATCH] 1/5 Multiple fallback entries

2009-01-31 Thread Colin D Bennett
This patch adds support for multiple fallback entries in grub.cfg. I'll prepare the ChangeLog entry when the patch is approved to be committed. The patch is against GRUB trunk revision 1964. Regards, Colin === modified file 'include/grub/normal.h' --- include/grub/normal.h 2009-01-31 09:15:43 +0

Re: [PATCH] GSoC #05 Menu entry class attribute (v2)

2009-01-31 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Sat, 31 Jan 2009 11:19:51 +0200 Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: > I combined your menu entry and menu viewer patches and committed them in > with slight modifications. See if you are happy with it :) Looks good. > Oh. And btw. I think I am out of sync what is still missing. So let me > know if you

Re: [PATCH] GSoC #05 Menu entry class attribute (v2)

2009-01-31 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Colin D Bennett wrote: > Thanks for the argument parsing improvement. I'm glad to rip out the > '|class=' title kludge. Here is the result of merging your patch into > the menu entry class code. Hi Colin, I combined your menu entry and menu viewer patches and committed them in with slight modif