Where?

2009-02-11 Thread BandiPat
Hey guys, where does it specify the initial screen border title? (GNU GRUB version 1.96) I would at least like to change that for the Zenwalk build, if that's ok? I've looked in several pieces of the code, but can't seem to find it. Thanks, Pat -- ---Zenwalk v6.0--Linux 2.6.28---

Install scripts?

2009-02-11 Thread BandiPat
I'm hoping maybe one of you guys have written or know of something written from a ncurses point of view. A script that is interactive when installing a Linux distro with Grub2? Something that queries the user which is the boot partition or where to install Grub2 to the MBR, etc. Hopefully, I'

Re: [PATCH] Corrections to affs and sfs

2009-02-11 Thread Krzysztof Smiechowicz
Hello, Any news about applying this patch? :) Hello, I'm resubmitting the updated patch. Changelog: 2009-02-11 Krzysztof Smiechowicz * fs/sfs.c (grub_sfs_read_extent) : Correction to traversing extent b-tree Index: fs/sfs.c

Re: [PATCH] make partition active

2009-02-11 Thread phcoder
Pavel Roskin wrote: On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 14:43 +0100, phcoder wrote: Here's the patch to add a replacement for old "makeactive" command New syntax is activate PARTITION E.g. activate hd0,1 Is it necessary to change the name? I think "makeactive" is a better name for what it does. Actually I

Re: grub.efi x86_64 on Apple 64bit efi models - status of testing

2009-02-11 Thread step21
O.k. I tracked it down a bit more, but would like some input. Command executed: "insmod uhci; echo 1; insmod usb_keyboard; echo 2; terminal_input usb_keyboard; echo 3" Basically uhci and usb_keyboard load consistently now, for whatever reason. (I suspect it was sth about some weird device just taki

Re: [PATCH] mtools-like FAT-label behaviour

2009-02-11 Thread phcoder
With this patch fat became case-sensitive which is probably wrong. Corrected version of patch attached Sorry Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko phcoder wrote: Hello. Now the handling of FAT-labels keeps the trailing spaces and ignores VFAT label generated by mlabel tool. Here is the patch to correct

Re: [PATCH] make partition active

2009-02-11 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 14:43 +0100, phcoder wrote: > Here's the patch to add a replacement for old "makeactive" command > New syntax is > activate PARTITION > E.g. > activate hd0,1 Is it necessary to change the name? I think "makeactive" is a better name for what it does. Maybe we could use a mor

[PATCH] make partition active

2009-02-11 Thread phcoder
Here's the patch to add a replacement for old "makeactive" command New syntax is activate PARTITION E.g. activate hd0,1 Regards Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko Index: ChangeLog === --- ChangeLog (revision 1989) +++ ChangeLog (working c

Re: [PATCH] Long linux kernel command lines

2009-02-11 Thread Jan Alsenz
Hi again! I checked the boot protocol documentation and found that since version 2.06 (kernel 2.6.22) there is a field with the supported command line size. I updated my patch to respect this field if it is present, otherwise the maximum 4k buffer is used. Greets, Jan Jan Alsenz schrieb: > He

[PATCH] mtools-like FAT-label behaviour

2009-02-11 Thread phcoder
Hello. Now the handling of FAT-labels keeps the trailing spaces and ignores VFAT label generated by mlabel tool. Here is the patch to correct this. Unfortunately m$ when user set a mixed case label only uppercase one is saved to FS, moreover m$ keeps the mixed case label in the registry fooling

[Patch] Move multiboot helpers out of the kernel

2009-02-11 Thread phcoder
Hello. multiboot helpers have no real reason to stay in kernel. So here is the proposition to move them out of it to _multiboot.mod. Changelog: 2009-02-11 Vladimir Serbinenko Move multiboot helper out of kernel * conf/i386-pc.rmk: Add loader/i386/multiboot.S to _multi

Re: [Patch] remove bsd asm helper functions

2009-02-11 Thread phcoder
Sorry, forgot changelog entry. Here it is: 2009-02-11 Vladimir Serbinenko Move BSD helper out of kernel * conf/i386-pc.rmk: Add loader/i386/bsd_helper.S to _bsd.mod * kern/i386/loader.S: Removed BSD helpers * include/grub/i386/loader.h: Removed declaration of

[Patch] remove bsd asm helper functions

2009-02-11 Thread phcoder
Hello. Asm helper functions for bsd aren't really needed. Actually BSD entry point may be called directly as cdecl function. With this approach theese helper functions don't take place in kernel anymore. Tested with freebsd, openbsd and netbsd. However my tests were limited to launching kernel

Re: hfs patch (Re: State of GRUB on PowerPC)

2009-02-11 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 15:47 +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:54:55AM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > > Michel may know better, but I think it's the order of characters. > > > Those with the lower order go first in the sorted binary tree. Those > > > with the same or