Re: [PATCH] save_env variable_name=value

On Sat, 2009-09-12 at 09:54 -0500, richardvo...@gmail.com wrote: > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Pavel Roskin wrote: > > I don't see how grub-mkconfig could compensate for a missing feature in > > save_env. Perhaps I'm missing the context here. > > AFAICT, it's grub.cfg that has to work aroun

Re: [PATCH] Fix 'acpi' command loading tables from disk

On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 2:27 AM, Robert Millan wrote: > On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 02:21:14PM +0200, xose wrote: >> The 'acpi' command currently fails to add ACPI tables loaded from >> disk. The files are read and parsed correctly, but the tables are >> never actually added to the tables list. >> >>

Re: [PATCH] Fix 'acpi' command loading tables from disk

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 02:21:14PM +0200, xose wrote: > The 'acpi' command currently fails to add ACPI tables loaded from > disk. The files are read and parsed correctly, but the tables are > never actually added to the tables list. > > The following patch fixes this bug: > > > diff --git a/comm

Re: grub-mkconfig fails on every non i386-pc because of gfxterm/vbe

Hello 2009/9/12 Felix Zielcke : > Am Samstag, den 12.09.2009, 14:58 +0200 schrieb Robert Millan: >> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 05:54:19PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: >> > On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 13:03 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: >> > >> > > Pavel, if you could confirm that you're ok with checking for mo

Re: [PATCH] Change clean rules to properly remove files

Le 6 sept. 09 à 16:57, Robert Millan a écrit : On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 02:19:54PM +0200, Yves Blusseau wrote: Is it ok to commit ? Please wait a few more days. It's doubtful that anyone would be interested (and capable) of reviewing ruby code, but it's still worth a try. If noone objec

Re: [PATCH] save_env variable_name=value

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 17:08 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > >> Pavel, please comment on this when you can.  It seems to me that doing it >> in grub-mkconfig would require less ad-hoc code in loadenv.mod and make it >> more efficient. > > I don't

Re: [PATCH] save_env variable_name=value

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 05:43:06PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 17:08 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > Pavel, please comment on this when you can. It seems to me that doing it > > in grub-mkconfig would require less ad-hoc code in loadenv.mod and make it > > more efficient. >

[PATCH]: Save boot record before writing to the dest_drive

Greetings! I have added the following new features: 1) when grub-setup runs, it automatically stores the areas of (mbr + embed) region, which are overwritten, into the file (in the following specified format) in root directory. 2) grub-setup can restore the stored mbr in the following format bac

Re: ~3TB ext4 volume not read correctly by ext2-fs driver in GRUB2

On Mon, 2009-09-07 at 20:13 +0100, Tony Vroon wrote: > It would appear that the ext2-fs driver is not reliably able to read > directories on my ~3TB / filesystem: > /dev/root 3.4T 1.7T 1.6T 52% / > /dev/root on / type ext4 (rw,noatime,barrier=1,data=ordered) Specifically, directorie

Re: grub-mkconfig fails on every non i386-pc because of gfxterm/vbe

Am Samstag, den 12.09.2009, 14:58 +0200 schrieb Robert Millan: > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 05:54:19PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > > On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 13:03 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > > > > Pavel, if you could confirm that you're ok with checking for module > > > existance, maybe Felix' pat

Releasing 1.97~beta3

Hi, 1.97~beta3 is out. Enjoy. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all." signature.asc Description:

Re: [PATCH] move DAC register setting to linux.c

Committed. On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 11:03:16PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > It didn't really seem right that we were *setting* values in the DAC palette > register in a function that was only meant to retrieve video mode information. > > So I would rather move this to the Linux loader. In th

Re: [PATCH] fix memory corruption issues in grub_vbe_bios_getset_dac_palette()

Committed. Btw, revision of the existing code in this function still welcome (not all memory corruption bugs associated with it are fixed). On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 09:48:16PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > These were spotted by Colin Watson. Unfortunately, users report that it > doesn't fix t

Re: grub-mkconfig fails on every non i386-pc because of gfxterm/vbe

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 05:54:19PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 13:03 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > > Pavel, if you could confirm that you're ok with checking for module > > existance, maybe Felix' patch can be made simpler. > > Generally, I would prefer not to rely on the

About firmware facilities

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 02:07:10PM -0700, Seth Goldberg wrote: > > I strongly disagree with you in this specific case. Our experience in > Solaris has demonstrated that PXE firmware is surprisingly robust (when > the right combination of API calls (i.e. those tested by Windows) are > used).

Re: [PATCH] save_env variable_name=value

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 05:43:06PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 17:08 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > > Pavel, please comment on this when you can. It seems to me that doing it > > in grub-mkconfig would require less ad-hoc code in loadenv.mod and make it > > more efficient.