Re: grub-mkrescue no longer supports adding extra files

2010-01-18 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Dienstag, den 19.01.2010, 03:03 +0100 schrieb Michal Suchanek: > Hello > > in the past grub-mkrescue allowed for adding files into the rescue medium. > > This is no longer supported which I find quite annoying. The rescue > image does not support any font and I cannot put any menu on it. > >

Re: Bazaar workflow for GRUB

2010-01-18 Thread BVK Chaitanya
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Colin Watson wrote: > > I recommend using a checkout for trunk, because that way bzr takes out a > write lock on the branch when you start committing and doesn't release > it until it's finished; it also warns you immediately if you're out of > date rather than ma

Re: Bazaar workflow for GRUB

2010-01-18 Thread BVK Chaitanya
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:19 PM, Colin D Bennett wrote: >> >> * For Occasional Contributors >> >> This workflow is recommended for users/developers who want to fix >> just-one GRUB issue.  This involves a trunk checkout, some local >> commits (as necessary for fixing the issue) and sending the pa

grub-mkrescue no longer supports adding extra files

2010-01-18 Thread Michal Suchanek
Hello in the past grub-mkrescue allowed for adding files into the rescue medium. This is no longer supported which I find quite annoying. The rescue image does not support any font and I cannot put any menu on it. It would be nice if the overlay functionality could be restored. Thanks Michal

Re: keyboard layout patches

2010-01-18 Thread Carles Pina i Estany
Hi, On Jan/18/2010, Carles Pina i Estany wrote: > I've done a first version of keyboard_layout. Find a patch attached, or Thanks to the comments from different people in the thread, I send a new version. It does, on from my head: a) Constants used in util/ and Grub are in a common header file.

Re: keyboard layout patches

2010-01-18 Thread Carles Pina i Estany
Hi, On Jan/18/2010, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 07:25:37PM +, Carles Pina i Estany wrote: > > a) very short term: what about to register a command to "something" > > (like "1234", numbers doesn't usually change between keyboard, right? > > The standard counterexample is Fre

RFC: Support Linux command line variants in grub-mkconfig

2010-01-18 Thread Martin Orr
I would like to be able to choose between alternative Linux command lines in my GRUB menu (specifically, I want a "selinux=0" option, but I can imagine that people might want other things). I could add an extra script to /etc/grub.d to do this, but then I have to copy the logic in 10_linux to

Re: [PATCH] make 'sleep --interruptible 0' interruptible

2010-01-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 09:17:41PM +0100, Szymon Janc wrote: > Attached patch makes sleep -i 0 "interruptible". > It allows to have 0 sleep yet selectable multiboot config > i.e. > > if sleep --interruptible 0 ; then > set timeout=0

Re: Bazaar workflow for GRUB

2010-01-18 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:15:37 + Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 09:49:15AM -0800, Colin D Bennett wrote: > > Do you want to mention how GRUB committers should merge features to > > the official trunk branch? I think the appropriate process, > > assuming (1) either a merge direct

[PATCH] make 'sleep --interruptible 0' interruptible

2010-01-18 Thread Szymon Janc
Hello, Attached patch makes sleep -i 0 "interruptible". It allows to have 0 sleep yet selectable multiboot config i.e. if sleep --interruptible 0 ; then set timeout=0 fi -- Szymon K. Janc szy...

Re: keyboard layout patches

2010-01-18 Thread Carles Pina i Estany
Hi, On Jan/18/2010, Vladimir '??-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > + grub_util_write_image ("GRUBLAY", 7, fp); > + grub_util_write_image ((char *) &version, 4, fp); > > should be macroified and put somewhere in a header instead of duplicating I agree. Any reason that I don't see that in uti

Re: keyboard layout patches

2010-01-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 07:25:37PM +, Carles Pina i Estany wrote: > a) very short term: what about to register a command to "something" > (like "1234", numbers doesn't usually change between keyboard, right? The standard counterexample is French. Function keys do stay constant, though. -- C

Re: keyboard layout patches

2010-01-18 Thread Carles Pina i Estany
Hi, On Jan/18/2010, Vladimir '??-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > Carles Pina i Estany wrote: > > Actually if prefix (that it's a variable) is "/" then args[0] acts as a > > filename. Would be like "///test/filename" and it's a valid directory. > > > > > Perhaps we should remove prefix var

RE: Trouble booting from a large USB hard drive

2010-01-18 Thread Daniel Richard G.
Colin Watson wrote: > > Unfortunately it seems that often even recent machines > suffer from them. > The date doesn't appear to be a good guideline. BIOS barriers for IDE/SATA/SCSI disks, still? Nine years on since 137GB? Now that's just laziness... > I believe, but am not sure, that ata.mod is

Re: Bazaar workflow for GRUB

2010-01-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 09:49:15AM -0800, Colin D Bennett wrote: > Do you want to mention how GRUB committers should merge features to the > official trunk branch? I think the appropriate process, assuming > (1) either a merge directive or a feature branch provides the change > the we want to merg

Re: IA64 port

2010-01-18 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 06:48:11AM +0100, Tristan Gingold wrote: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 03:46:50PM +0100, Marco Gerards wrote: > > If you send in a new patch that addresses Robert's concerns + > > Changelog entry, I will go over it ASAP :-). Giving the same comments > > as Robert does seems lik

Re: Bazaar workflow for GRUB

2010-01-18 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:01:41 +0530 BVK Chaitanya wrote: > Hi, > > > Attached is the initial version of workflow document for GRUB > contributions. I am yet to get right DVCS right, so I suspect it > might have minor differences from what other developers are following > already. > > Let me kn

Re: keyboard layout patches

2010-01-18 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Carles Pina i Estany wrote: > Hi, > > I answer in fast way... more at evening. Items that I don't comment I > understand and agree. > > On Jan/18/2010, Vladimir '??-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > > >>> How could grub-mkinstall (00_header.in) know the current keyboard in the >>> system? >>>

Re: keyboard layout patches

2010-01-18 Thread Carles Pina i Estany
Hi, I answer in fast way... more at evening. Items that I don't comment I understand and agree. On Jan/18/2010, Vladimir '??-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > > How could grub-mkinstall (00_header.in) know the current keyboard in the > > system? > setxkbmap -print will give you the x layout b

Re: keyboard layout patches

2010-01-18 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Carles Pina i Estany wrote: > Hello, > > I've done a first version of keyboard_layout. Find a patch attached, or > check the branch: > bzr.savannah.gnu.org/srv/bzr/grub/people/cpina/keyboard_layouts > > I've tested only in at_keyboard. Using something like: > > insmod at_keyboard > terminal_input a

Re: Trouble booting from a large USB hard drive

2010-01-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 08:54:42PM -0500, Daniel Richard G. wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > There are many different possible BIOS limitations (see > > http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO-4.html) and I doubt that we > > can sensibly warn about all of them or even necessarily evaluate > > accura

Re: [PATCH] [RESEND] grub-script-check tool to validate grub.cfg syntax

2010-01-18 Thread BVK Chaitanya
On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 10:02 PM, BVK Chaitanya wrote: > > Attached patch adds a new utility, grub-script-check that can be used > to validate syntax of grub.cfg file generated using grub-mkconfig (or > update-grub).  I had sent this patch earlier based on experimental > branch, but resending it no

compile trunk with lua and gfxmenu

2010-01-18 Thread edgar . soldin
over the weekend I tried to figure out how to compile gfxmenu and lua together with grub from trunk. I didn't find an easy way. I tried to make an extra package similar to lua out of gfxmenu but stopped as I didn't knew how to integrate the missing header files. My knowledge so far is how to c

Re: keyboard layout patches

2010-01-18 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Montag, den 18.01.2010, 00:10 + schrieb Carles Pina i Estany: > Hello, > > I've done a first version of keyboard_layout. Find a patch attached, or > check the branch: > bzr.savannah.gnu.org/srv/bzr/grub/people/cpina/keyboard_layouts Nice work, though I haven't yet looked at the patch itsel