grub 0.97 and squashfs

2010-04-07 Thread Dmitry Baryshev
Hello. I'm using grub 0.97 with some work made for squashfs support. It can read data from squash partitions. I have one separate small ext2 partition for all grub data. It stores menu.lst, stage* files and so on. Menu.lst points to squashfs parttions. I can call grub-install with this ext2 partit

[bug #29464] util/i386/pc/grub-setup: fails to write Buggy BIOS boot-sector drive-number detection in boot.img

2010-04-07 Thread TJ
I wonder if someone that is familiar with the setting of disk->id for pc could take a look at this bug. Although I think I've found the reason for the bug I'm not clear on what the correct solution would be. In summary: disk->id has not been set by the time util/i386/pc/grub-setup.c does the bug

Re: [Patch] [bug #26237] multiple problems with usb devices

2010-04-07 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Aleš Nesrsta wrote: > > >> + * So we should: >> + * - allow WritebackDoneHead interrupt (WDH) by proper setting of last TD >> + * token - it is done above in transaction settings >> + * - detect setting of WDH bit in HcInterruptStatus register >> + * - compare HccaDoneHead value w

Re: [PATCH] grub + FreeBSD's loader(8) + ZFS root

2010-04-07 Thread Navdeep Parhar
2010/4/7 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko : > Navdeep Parhar wrote: >> Hello grub-devel, >> >> Right now it's not possible to boot using FreeBSD's loader(8) from a ZFS >> root filesystem.  Grub doesn't indicate to the loader that there is a >> ZFS root involved and consequently the loader fail

Re: [Patch] [bug #26237] multiple problems with usb devices

2010-04-07 Thread Aleš Nesrsta
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > Aleš Nesrsta wrote: > > Hello, > > > > according to e-mail from Vladimir Serbinenko I am sending patch related > > to (mostly) OHCI problem (bug #26237). > > Workaround related to grub_memalign problem is removed from patch > > because Vladimir Serbine

Re: grub2

2010-04-07 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
ed ramani wrote: > Hi, I have a problem on my dual mode installation, win7 and ubuntu > 9.10. When I hibernate in win 7 the pc, after a few hours, boots > itself on automatically into the os selected. Is there a fix for this. > I have the latest SW and bios installed. > This mailing list isn't a su

Re: How to prepare an ISO 9660 CD for booting via GRUB ?

2010-04-07 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > > Are there other media types [...] ? > Floppy. (supported for image sizes smaller than 1.44 MiB) > [...] > We probably need a way to choose a subset of modules for floppies If i squeeze out the overhead, then xorriso writes 754 * 2048 bytes rather than 757 * 2048 by grub-mkisofs. At the e

grub2

2010-04-07 Thread ed ramani
Hi, I have a problem on my dual mode installation, win7 and ubuntu 9.10. When I hibernate in win 7 the pc, after a few hours, boots itself on automatically into the os selected. Is there a fix for this. I have the latest SW and bios installed. Also, would it be possible, in a dual boot system, to

Re: How to prepare an ISO 9660 CD for booting via GRUB ?

2010-04-07 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > i have roughly implemented the missing options > of grub-mkisofs in xorriso and am now comparing > the results. > > The ISO image by xorriso boots from CD and from > USB stick. Are there other media types which > would impose a further challenge ? > > Floppy. (sup

Re: [PATCH] Testcase for checking msdos and gpt partitions logic

2010-04-07 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
BVK Chaitanya wrote: > This new patch has checks for sun and apple partition types. > > > > Please resync before comitting. Now the partitions are named as .e.g. hd0,msdos1 and not hd0,1. Can you add a check that no unexpected partitons are found. Perhaps you can put an fs on partitions and chec

Re: [PATCH] Testcase for checking msdos and gpt partitions logic

2010-04-07 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
BVK Chaitanya wrote: > Hi, > > > Attached patch adds a testcase for checking msdos and gpt partition > modules, part_msdos and part_gpt. This testcase uses parted tool to > create disk images with different partitions and uses grub-shell to > check whether grub is able to recognize them or not. >

Re: [PATCH] grub + FreeBSD's loader(8) + ZFS root

2010-04-07 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Navdeep Parhar wrote: > Hello grub-devel, > > Right now it's not possible to boot using FreeBSD's loader(8) from a ZFS > root filesystem. Grub doesn't indicate to the loader that there is a > ZFS root involved and consequently the loader fails to find the kernel. > The attached patch fixes this.