Re: Announcing GNU GRUB 1.97 beta1

2009-08-31 Thread Michal Suchanek
Hello With 1.97 beta1 I cannot use config files like the one attached. The message is 'You need to load the kernel first.' I did not try with 1.97 beta1 yet but with recent trunk I could not use the config file but I still could boot using these commands. linux /boot/vmlinuz-... root=/dev/sda7

Re: Report: compil error on OSX for target=i386

2009-08-31 Thread Yves Blusseau
What about following compromise: diff --git a/loader/i386/linux.c b/loader/i386/linux.c index 4144384..1380eb8 100644 --- a/loader/i386/linux.c +++ b/loader/i386/linux.c @@ -543,7 +543,8 @@ grub_linux_boot (void) asm volatile ("lgdt %0" : : "m" (gdt_desc)); /* Enter Linux. */ - asm volatile

possible? load extension ROMs when BIOS doesn't (e.g. laptops)

2009-08-31 Thread richardvo...@gmail.com
I searched and couldn't find anything like this in the archives, apologies if this has already been discussed or is far off-topic. Many notebook computers can't boot from PCI-express expansion cards (example ExpressCard SATA controllers) for the simple reason that, although the card contains an ex

Re: [RFC] Long environment variables.

2009-08-31 Thread Yves Blusseau
Currently we don't have a reliable autodetector to pass hardware info to xnu kernel. I wanted to let user specify it through environment variables - it allows user to e.g. correct wrong entry in dump at boot time. E.g: XNU.DeviceProperties.0.path.0=ACPI:167985616:0 XNU.DeviceProperties.0.path.1=PC

Re: [Bug Report] loadenv module

2009-08-31 Thread Yves Blusseau
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 10:03 PM, Yves Blusseau wrote: Hi, i have compiled the current version of grub2 under OSX. I have an error when using the loadenv module: I don't have any grub.cfg file. When i was at the prompt i do a save_env timeout and grub return me an "out of partition" err

Re: [PATCH] reset USB controller

2009-08-31 Thread Mikko Rantalainen
Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Robert Millan wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:51:55PM +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko >> wrote: >>> Hello, some BIOSes don't conform semaphore specification about handing >>> over the control on UHCI and/or EHCI cont

Re: [PATCH] SDL

2009-08-31 Thread Michal Suchanek
2009/8/30 Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko : > Rediffed SDL patch. On top of my videomask, autogfx and doublebuf > patches. HTH for debugging before making release > Does SDL support rotation/mirroring of the graphical output? It would be nice if we could test that in SDL as well. Thanks Michal _

64bit division/remainder in fsys_*.c

2009-08-31 Thread Jochen
Hi, I'm trying to port Edward Shishkin's btrfs patch to Gentoo. However, when trying to compile, I get the following errors: undefined reference to "__udivdi3" undefined reference to "__udivdi3" This is because the code is doing 64bit divisions. What can I use to do those in grub? Regards,