Fix for Debian Bug#574863: boot failure with lvm2 and snapshot volumes

2010-06-02 Thread sean finney
okay, I think the attached patch should fix the problem. I haven't tested it thoroughly, though my system does boot. It seems there may be a seperate issue with os-prober that results in some junk entries being added to grub.conf if the snapshot volumes happen to be root filesystems, but that pro

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

2010-06-02 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Hello, Aleš. Today I merged usb branch into mainline. Now I've started some work towards hotplugging and module autoloading. Currently it just checks portsstatus to see newly connected devices. Touble is that if you disconnect a device and plug a new one at its place this routine won't notice anyth

Re: [RFC] Multiboot2 drafting

2010-06-02 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: Andrew Reilly 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 Ope

[PATCH] Fix root device detection for lvm2

2010-06-02 Thread sean finney
If you have a single / filesystem on lvm2, the boot process will hang waiting for a root filesystem that never appears. This patch modifies the logic in deciding what the root device actually is, and allows the initramfs to succesfully load the root filesystem. The attached patch has been in use

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

2010-06-02 Thread Aleš Nesrsta
Hi Vladimir, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > There were few special cases. (Hopefully) fixed and ccomitted into "usb". You are successful, great work, all devices are working (with some known exceptions on UHCI - see below in point 2.). But better will be if somebody else also te

grub-mkconfig documentation

2010-06-02 Thread Colin Watson
I've committed Texinfo documentation for grub-mkconfig to trunk (nodes "Configuration" and "Invoking grub-mkconfig"). Please take a look and comment. I've also left a slot for documenting the full scripting language, and may or may not get round to that in the near future. Thanks, -- Colin Wat

Re: [PATCH] grub-emu-lite tool instead of --enable-grub-emu-modules

2010-06-02 Thread BVK Chaitanya
Updated patch with review comments (on IRC) is attached. -- bvk.chaitanya # Bazaar merge directive format 2 (Bazaar 0.90) # revision_id: bvk.gro...@gmail.com-20100602091507-1ue7h482akbs3w5b # target_branch: ../mainline/ # testament_sha1: b64ba6563eb16fb1ff5ae97d2102dc8f20c6b61d # timestamp: 20