Re: grub2 back to lilo ?

2010-05-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Colin D Bennett wrote: Perhaps instead of pre-generating the entire GRUB configuration (e.g. from a particular Distro like Ubuntu 9.10) things could be inserted into the main grub.cfg at GRUB boot time. Here's just a portion of what Ubuntu 10.04 puts in the generated grub.cfg (of course with a s

Re: grub2 back to lilo ?

2010-05-14 Thread Colin D Bennett
Perhaps instead of pre-generating the entire GRUB configuration (e.g. from a particular Distro like Ubuntu 9.10) things could be inserted into the main grub.cfg at GRUB boot time. Here's just a portion of what Ubuntu 10.04 puts in the generated grub.cfg (of course with a stern warning not to hand

Re: grub2 back to lilo ?

2010-05-14 Thread BVK Chaitanya
I tend to agree. IIRC, with grub-legacy (on debian), we could simply add any user customizations at the end of the menu.lst (after auto generated list markers) which would remain there even after update-grub operations. Thus user had an easier way to add his customizations (without even need to r

grub2 back to lilo ?

2010-05-14 Thread bc w
Hi I think the problem proposed by this article is very important. The article URL is http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/7004/1/ http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/7004/2/ It said "In the distant past, Linux used a boot loader called lilo. Lilo was a p

Re: [RFC] Multiboot2 drafting

2010-05-14 Thread Rafal Jaworowski
On 2010-05-14, at 14:44, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <4becee31.3060...@gmail.com> >Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko writes: > : Yes and No. multiboot2 describes some aspects of the host system > : hardware but I've never heard of device trees outside of IEEE1275 or > : x

Re: [RFC] Multiboot2 drafting

2010-05-14 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <4becee31.3060...@gmail.com> Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko writes: : 2) Keep the things as advanced as they need to but not more advanced. : E.g. when you supply an info about serial port you tell: it's at I/O : port N rather than: it's in PCI bar X of device Y offs

Re: [RFC] Multiboot2 drafting

2010-05-14 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <4becee31.3060...@gmail.com> Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko writes: : Yes and No. multiboot2 describes some aspects of the host system : hardware but I've never heard of device trees outside of IEEE1275 or : xnu, where it's probably a historical leftover. It is far

Re: [RFC] Multiboot2 drafting

2010-05-14 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <20100514132142.252b0...@ernst.jennejohn.org> Gary Jennejohn writes: : As an example of what I think Andrew was addressing, U-Boot can pass a : Flattened Device Tree to the Linux kernel. This basically allows a : Linux kernel to handle variants of a board without having to

Re: [RFC] Multiboot2 drafting

2010-05-14 Thread Gary Jennejohn
On Fri, 14 May 2010 08:31:13 +0200 Vladimir '__-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > I know next to nothing about GRUB, and have not yet read the > > multiboot spec, but I wonder if you could comment on how or > > whether this is related to either the Open Firmware Device Tree >

Re: RTL Languages support

2010-05-14 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Yaron Shahrabani wrote: > > Be sure to use gfxterm (insmod vbe; loadfont /unifont.pf2) because VGA > doesn't support any non-ASCII characters. > This should have been insmod vbe; loadfont /unifont.pf2; terminal_output gfxterm > I got into some building problems > I installed flex and bison

Re: RTL Languages support

2010-05-14 Thread Yaron Shahrabani
2010/5/14 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko > ‎‏ׂשלום, ירון. > You spelled it perfectly! > I hope I spelled your name correctly > Yaron Shahrabani wrote: > > Hello everyone > > I would like to ask if anyone has any experience with translation of > > grub to RTL language > > > No such transla