Re: [solved] Re: USB device not seen by grub

2009-12-22 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 04:16:45AM EST, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > Chris Jones wrote: Hello Vladimir, [..] > > Also, is there any way I can run the grub command line on a system > > that's already booted, so I can explore its possibities in a context > > where I have interne

Re: Fix for grub_assert_fail undefined on NetBSD and other platforms

2009-12-22 Thread BVK Chaitanya
2009/12/22 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko : >> ./include/grub/list.h:44: warning: 'error' attribute directive ignored > This situation is acceptable. In unlikely case that cast is indeed bad > you will get runtime error instead of compile error. But it would be a > benefit if abort message w

Re: Problems with grub-reboot/savedefault/default=saved

2009-12-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 02:28:03PM -0800, Jordan Uggla wrote: > There are multiple problems with grub-reboot/savedefault/default=saved. Hi, I do intend to follow up on this; however, due to Christmas holidays and the like it won't be until the new year. I'm just sending this message to let you kn

New Indonesian PO file for 'grub' (version 1.97+20091221)

2009-12-22 Thread Translation Project Robot
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Re: grub_error messages

2009-12-22 Thread Carles Pina i Estany
Hi, On Dec/22/2009, Vladimir '??-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > Jordi Mallach wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:19:16PM +, Carles Pina i Estany wrote: > > > >> b) At beginning I thought that we would not gettext error messages, but > >> I see that lot of these messages appears to t

New template for 'grub' made available

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New French PO file for 'grub' (version 1.97+20091122)

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Re: How to install grub on fakeraid (raid 0) which spans 2 TB?

2009-12-22 Thread Bruce Dubbs
André Heynatz wrote: I have bought two 1 TB harddisks and one 2 TB harddisk (backup). I want to use the 1 TB harddisks in a RAID 0 array (Intel ICH8R Fakeraid). OS: Win XP SP3, Win 7, Ubuntu Linux 9.10 32 Bit My partition plan 1: P ntfs 300 GB Windows XP SP3 32 Bit P ntfs 300 GB Windows 7 32

Re: How to install grub on fakeraid (raid 0) which spans 2 TB?

2009-12-22 Thread André Heynatz
Original-Nachricht > Datum: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:24:20 +0100 > Von: Felix Zielcke > An: The development of GNU GRUB > Betreff: Re: How to install grub on fakeraid (raid 0) which spans 2 TB? > Am Dienstag, den 22.12.2009, 18:02 +0100 schrieb "André Heynatz": > > I have bought tw

Re: Fix for grub_assert_fail undefined on NetBSD and other platforms

2009-12-22 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Grégoire Sutre wrote: > Hi, > > > Unfortunately, I couldn't test this on NetBSD, where old technique was > > reported failing as GCC optimizations didn't happen. Can Grégoire > > Sutr or anybody else try this out on NetBSD and confirm? > > Thanks for looking into this. > > I tested the second vers

Re: Fix for grub_assert_fail undefined on NetBSD and other platforms

2009-12-22 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Dienstag, den 22.12.2009, 18:07 +0100 schrieb Grégoire Sutre: > This is on NetBSD 5.0 with gcc 4.1.3 (the default). > If I use gcc 4.4 instead, then I do not get any warning. It looks like gcc 4.3 introduced the error attribute. But this isn't documented at the gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.X/changes.htm

Re: How to install grub on fakeraid (raid 0) which spans 2 TB?

2009-12-22 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Dienstag, den 22.12.2009, 18:02 +0100 schrieb "André Heynatz": > I have bought two 1 TB harddisks and one 2 TB harddisk (backup). > I want to use the 1 TB harddisks in a RAID 0 array (Intel ICH8R > Fakeraid). > > I wanted to install Linux, then create the data partition with > Win XP SP3 Disk

Re: Fix for grub_assert_fail undefined on NetBSD and other platforms

2009-12-22 Thread Grégoire Sutre
Hi, > Unfortunately, I couldn't test this on NetBSD, where old technique was > reported failing as GCC optimizations didn't happen. Can Grégoire > Sutr or anybody else try this out on NetBSD and confirm? Thanks for looking into this. I tested the second version of the patch. Linking now works

How to install grub on fakeraid (raid 0) which spans 2 TB?

2009-12-22 Thread André Heynatz
I have bought two 1 TB harddisks and one 2 TB harddisk (backup). I want to use the 1 TB harddisks in a RAID 0 array (Intel ICH8R Fakeraid). OS: Win XP SP3, Win 7, Ubuntu Linux 9.10 32 Bit My partition plan 1: P ntfs 300 GB Windows XP SP3 32 Bit P ntfs 300 GB Windows 7 32 Bit E L swap2 GB L

Re: grub_error messages

2009-12-22 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Jordi Mallach wrote: > On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:19:16PM +, Carles Pina i Estany wrote: > >> b) At beginning I thought that we would not gettext error messages, but >> I see that lot of these messages appears to the end user. Do we gettext >> using N_(" ") and then where it's printed I use

Re: pci-e config register modification in grub

2009-12-22 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Nando wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Wondering if grub2 can have an additional module added to do various > pci-e Configuration Register fixups/modifications before launching > into XP/Win7/Linux. Are PCI configuration registers enough? If not can you research the specifications? > Specifically I requi

Re: grub_error messages

2009-12-22 Thread Jordi Mallach
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:19:16PM +, Carles Pina i Estany wrote: > b) At beginning I thought that we would not gettext error messages, but > I see that lot of these messages appears to the end user. Do we gettext > using N_(" ") and then where it's printed I use _(" ") ? I would say > yes. No

Re: Fix for grub_assert_fail undefined on NetBSD and other platforms

2009-12-22 Thread BVK Chaitanya
grub_fatal already calls grub_abort, so grub_abort line is removed. -- bvk.chaitanya === modified file 'include/grub/handler.h' --- include/grub/handler.h 2009-03-01 17:51:44 + +++ include/grub/handler.h 2009-12-22 13:34:38 + @@ -55,6 +55,6 @@ GRUB_FIELD_MATCH (ptr, grub_

Re: Feature Request: 32-bit mem write and 'setpci -s' type command in menu.lst

2009-12-22 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Nando wrote: > Hi Vlad, > > > able to do the equivalent of setpci by calculating the addresses > > needing memory writes. > > Except pciconf space > > > Are you saying that write_dword will not write to pciconf space? > > > > > > write_dump ADDRESS FILE > > eg: write_dump

[PATCH] Re: Feature Request: 32-bit mem write and 'setpci -s' type command in menu.lst

2009-12-22 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Nando wrote: > Hi everyone, > > > 2/ Ability to do a setpci -s type command > == > > Also, if possible, could a small subset of 'setpci' be incorporated as > well? I guess I could figure out the address I need to write to by > calculation, but would be nice if I could do

Fix for grub_assert_fail undefined on NetBSD and other platforms

2009-12-22 Thread BVK Chaitanya
Hi Attached is the patch, which removes use of undefined grub_assert_fail function for catching bad-type-cast errors, with a better version __attribute__((error("msg"))) gcc extension. With this extension, gcc can give the exact location of the bad type cast at compile time. Unfortunately, I co

Re: how 'default=saved' should work ?

2009-12-22 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Dienstag, den 22.12.2009, 15:15 +0100 schrieb Frédéric Boiteux: > Le Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:51:30 +0100, > Frédéric Boiteux a écrit : > > > > Ah a french page on the wiki has this. > > > Unfortunately I don't know more then 1-2 french words. > > > Would be nice if someone could note there that th

Fwd: Bug#562036: grub-pc: Add support for GFXPAYLOAD same as for GFXMODE

2009-12-22 Thread Jan Muszynski
-- Forwarded message -- From: Jan Muszynski To: Debian Bug Tracking System Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 01:12:54 -0500 Subject: Bug#562036: grub-pc: Add support for GFXPAYLOAD same as for GFXMODE Package: grub-pc Version: 1.98~20091210-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch Currently console r

Re: how 'default=saved' should work ?

2009-12-22 Thread Frédéric Boiteux
Le Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:51:30 +0100, Frédéric Boiteux a écrit : > > Ah a french page on the wiki has this. > > Unfortunately I don't know more then 1-2 french words. > > Would be nice if someone could note there that this currently only > > applies to the experimental branch. > Done. Fre

Re: PXE booting: no such disk

2009-12-22 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Alkis Georgopoulos wrote: > I'm trying to follow the instructions on this wiki page: > http://grub.enbug.org/PXEBOOT > and I'm getting "error: no such disk", followed by the "grub rescue>" > prompt. If I try `pxe --info` on that prompt, I get: > "error: no pxe environment" > > gpxe detects g

[PATCH] byte-addressable grub_pci_make_address

2009-12-22 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Hello, I noticed that grub_pci_make_address addresses register on dword boundaries whereas some important byte registers aren't dword-aligned. It's impossible to access such registers in opaque way which is required when using grub-emu with PCI support. Here is a fix -- Regards Vladimir 'φ-coder/

Re: how 'default=saved' should work ?

2009-12-22 Thread Frédéric Boiteux
Le Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:47:23 +0100, Felix Zielcke a écrit : > Am Dienstag, den 22.12.2009, 13:36 +0100 schrieb Frédéric Boiteux: > > Le Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:28:02 +0100, > > Felix Zielcke a écrit : > > > > > It's only in the experimental branch avaible, which is in Debian > > > experimental. > >

Re: how 'default=saved' should work ?

2009-12-22 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Dienstag, den 22.12.2009, 13:36 +0100 schrieb Frédéric Boiteux: > Le Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:28:02 +0100, > Felix Zielcke a écrit : > > > It's only in the experimental branch avaible, which is in Debian > > experimental. > > We only do trunk uploads to sid. > Ok, thanks for the precision : I found

Re: how 'default=saved' should work ?

2009-12-22 Thread Frédéric Boiteux
Le Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:28:02 +0100, Felix Zielcke a écrit : > It's only in the experimental branch avaible, which is in Debian > experimental. > We only do trunk uploads to sid. Ok, thanks for the precision : I found the doc on the Grub2 wiki, but didn't notice it doesn't apply to current Sid pac

Re: boot directory prefix in grub-install (even with --root-directory)

2009-12-22 Thread Grégoire Sutre
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: The main problem is with scripts already using --root-directory and relying on existing behaviour. Yes, you're right. I propose add a new option --grub-directory=DIR which defaults to ROOTDIR/boot/grub What do you think about this? Nice, I'm loo

Re: how 'default=saved' should work ?

2009-12-22 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Dienstag, den 22.12.2009, 13:25 +0100 schrieb Frédéric Boiteux: > Hello, > > I've recently updated my grub-legacy bootloader to Grub2 (using > latest grub-pc from Debian Sid), and I can't have the > 'default=saved' > option working with Grub2 :-( It's only in the experimental branc

how 'default=saved' should work ?

2009-12-22 Thread Frédéric Boiteux
Hello, I've recently updated my grub-legacy bootloader to Grub2 (using latest grub-pc from Debian Sid), and I can't have the 'default=saved' option working with Grub2 :-( I've put following definition in /etc/default/grub : GRUB_DEFAULT=saved and I get it in the beginning of my

Re: boot directory prefix in grub-install (even with --root-directory)

2009-12-22 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Grégoire Sutre wrote: > Hi, > > grub-install copies GRUB images into ${rootdir}/boot/grub (where > ${rootdir} is empty by default and can be changed with --root-directory). > > To install GRUB files on a partition that contains a /boot file, one > must specify a non-empty --root-directory, and grub

boot directory prefix in grub-install (even with --root-directory)

2009-12-22 Thread Grégoire Sutre
Hi, grub-install copies GRUB images into ${rootdir}/boot/grub (where ${rootdir} is empty by default and can be changed with --root-directory). To install GRUB files on a partition that contains a /boot file, one must specify a non-empty --root-directory, and grub files are then copied into /