Hi,
On Dec/24/2009, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 01:31:55AM +, Carles Pina i Estany wrote:
> >
> > If ok I would commit.
>
> Was this checked in? ISTR having OKed it on IRC, but I don't see it
> in ChangeLog.
it's already applied but not in the way that I was suggesting
On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 05:37:11PM +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> Hello. I'm implementing video part of multiboot specification.
> Currently the only defined interface is for providing VBE info. I
> propose following way to set fields if video is non VBE:
> vbe_control_info=0xfff
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 01:18:42PM +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
wrote:
> 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 file
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 06:02:08PM +0100, "André Heynatz" wrote:
> I wanted to install Linux, then create the data partition with
> Win XP SP3 Disk Management Tool. The Linux install failed
> because Ubuntu wanted to install GRUB1 which is not part of
> the install CD. I wonder that Ubuntu uses GRU
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 02:17:06PM -0800, Seth Goldberg wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Your problem is probably lack of executable stack support, or at least
> you haven't linked your application with a linker mapfile that specifies
> an executable stack -- the callbacks require the use of trampolines to
>
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 12:53:46PM +0100, Grégoire Sutre wrote:
> The problem arises e.g. with NetBSD which uses /boot for its own
> bootloader. The script util/grub-install.in contains lines to take care
> of that situation (lines 160-172), but these lines rely on a variable
> ${host_os} th
What's the basis for these writes, btw? I askesd a while ago but no one
seemed to know. Feel free to point me to a chipset datasheet, but right now
this code truly a black box :).
--S
Quoting Robert Millan, who wrote the following on Thu, 24 Dec 2009:
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 03:12:09PM
+1 :).
--S
Quoting Robert Millan, who wrote the following on Thu, 24 Dec 2009:
Hi,
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 08:26:01PM +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
wrote:
--- ChangeLog.pxeenv1970-01-01 00:00:00 +
+++ ChangeLog.pxeenv2009-12-20 19:23:11 +
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 09:39:07PM +0530, BVK Chaitanya wrote:
> 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
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 03:12:09PM +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
wrote:
> === modified file 'commands/efi/loadbios.c'
> --- commands/efi/loadbios.c 2009-12-21 22:06:04 +
> +++ commands/efi/loadbios.c 2009-12-22 12:03:12 +
> @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
>return 0;
> }
>
Hi,
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 08:26:01PM +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
wrote:
> --- ChangeLog.pxeenv 1970-01-01 00:00:00 +
> +++ ChangeLog.pxeenv 2009-12-20 19:23:11 +
> @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
> +2009-12-19 Vladimir Serbinenko
> +
> + Support for (pxe[:server[:gateway]])
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 07:03:31PM +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
wrote:
> Bean wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > This patch would check for drive number and use drivemap to map disks,
> > this is required to boot DOS/Windows from secondary drive.
> Committed with exception for Vista (it neith
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 05:28:32PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> into memory. The memory location is an absolute physical address of
> 0x07C000, which is one 512-byte sector below the 1st 32K memory
> boundary. I think, but cannot confirm, that this memory location is for
> historical reasons
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 11:56:21AM +, Colin Watson wrote:
> The simplest fix is to add '&& [ -e /boot/grub/grub.cfg ]' to the test
> in memtest86+;
Uhm should we make this check part of update-grub? Or even part of
grub-mkconfig?
> that is, if the configuration file hasn't been generated
> a
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 01:31:55AM +, Carles Pina i Estany wrote:
>
> If ok I would commit.
Was this checked in? ISTR having OKed it on IRC, but I don't see it
in ChangeLog.
> === modified file 'ChangeLog'
> --- ChangeLog 2009-12-12 00:43:32 +
> +++ ChangeLog 2009-12-13 00:44:09 +
It seems this just didn't belong to relocator branch. Nothing to see here ;-)
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 12:20:17AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
>
> Not sure if I missed something obvious, but this commit (relocator branch)
> seems to break compilation rather than fix it. Was grub_elf32_size()
> n
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 05:26:01PM +0800, Zhu Yi wrote:
> Add a feature to backup the old boot sectors before overwritting
> them with grub2 boot and core images. Users can later recover the
> previous boot sectors with grub-install --recover option.
>
> P.S. I found this might be a useful feature
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 08:12:52AM +, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 01:55:27AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 11:04:43PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
> > > I'm trying to figure out how to make Debian's grub-installer operate
> > > without a device.map; it
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 11:12:58AM +0100, Felix Zielcke wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 10.12.2009, 01:55 +0100 schrieb Robert Millan:
> > But first we'd need to figure out what we do with the "set root=xxx"
> > backward compatibility hack. Has it been a while long enough that
> > we can remove suppor
On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 10:45:16PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 10:23:51PM +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder'
> Serbinenko wrote:
> > Seth proposed a hinting technique:
> > search --fs_uuid ... -s root --hint hd0,1
> > then hd0,1 will be checked first and only on failure it
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 10:20:21AM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Felix Zielcke wrote:
>> Am Donnerstag, den 10.12.2009, 00:05 -0600 schrieb Bruce Dubbs:
>>> On the other hand, config.guess is used to get build_cpu and build_os
>>> and I don't see that being used at all right now by grub.
>>
>> Well
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 12:36:24PM +0530, BVK Chaitanya wrote:
> I don't have much knowledge in multiboot yet, but this case comes to my mind:
>
> Since GRUB2 is extensible (using modules),
Modules don't really make GRUB extensible. We don't make any promises about
ABI and it's very impractical
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 11:16:11PM +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
wrote:
> Bogdan wrote:
> > Is it just me or does this whole thing on abandoning Multiboot 2 seem like
> > a terrible idea? (That's a retorical question since I've already talked to
> > several people in the OSDev com
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:17:22AM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 01:16:04PM +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder'
>> Serbinenko wrote:
>>> === modified file 'commands/halt.c'
>>> --- commands/halt.c 2009-12-03 23:07:29 +
>>> +++ commands/halt.c 2009-12-
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 09:30:31PM +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
wrote:
> Colin Ian King wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've noticed only just recently that an EFI BIOS has been ported to
> > QEMU http://www.qemu.org/efi-bios.tar.bz2 from the TianoCore EFI
> > sources.
> >
> Thi
Hi,
Attached patch adds for-loop support to GRUB script. It is based on
r/grub/people/bvk/grub-script branch. Please review it and let me
know your comments.
Unfortunately, there is a bug in GRUB script string arguments
expansion, which is causing grub_script_for1.in test case to fail. I
will
Hi,
Version 0.6.96 of the Multiboot specification has been released.
Multiboot is a specification document which attempts to unify bootloading
across Operating System kernels. Its reference implementation, GNU GRUB,
is the most widely deployed free software bootloader, as a consequence of
thi
Seth Goldberg wrote:
>
>
> Quoting Bruce Dubbs, who wrote the following on Thu, 24 Dec 2009:
>
>> Seth Goldberg wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Dec 23, 2009, at 9:37 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>>>
Seth Goldberg wrote:
> While the BIOS call supports 48-bit LBA, the MBR partition table
> is limi
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