Reverse video highlighting oddity under grub EFI 64-bit

2010-09-01 Thread meta tech
Hi, I compiled grub2 from bzr for EFI 64-bit and installed it. The command line mode works normally, but the menu selection has some graphical oddity. When a line is selected, its characters should normally be video reversed. However, instead of that, each normal letter is replaced by two dark gre

Re: status of grub netboot in GRUB2

2010-09-01 Thread Manoel Rebelo Abraches
That branch is a bit outdated, I'll update id until next week at most. We have so far the tftp protocol and a pseudo driver for open firmware. It worked grate in our tests so far. Though it is aimed only for sequential transfer at the moment, I'll talk with vladimir next week some about some change

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Add some usefull variables

2010-09-01 Thread BVK Chaitanya
You forget to attach the patch? bvk.chaitanya ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: status of grub netboot in GRUB2

2010-09-01 Thread Turner, Ian
John, What happens when you load GRUB from media and then load the pxe module? Do you get access to the PXE filesystem? I think you can even specify the tftp server to use by setting some variables. --Ian (Apologies for the HTML mail - this mail client doesn't support composing plain text mes

Re: Grub-devel Digest, Vol 79, Issue 2

2010-09-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs
James Miller wrote: If you've any comments on the document I've attached then let me know. Can you put it into a more open source friendly format please. -- Bruce ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinf

Re: Grub-devel Digest, Vol 79, Issue 2

2010-09-01 Thread James Miller
I've written an easy(ish) to understand paper on installing windows 7(primarily) and linux side by side on a gpt partitioned disk. When I've finished (it's from a clean install) I can boot windows from bootmgr and when I press escape ubuntu loads but from boot using grub-pc. I'd like to be able t

Re: release notes for 1.99 ?

2010-09-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 08:40:05AM -0700, Bruce Edge wrote: > Is there a release notes page for the upcoming 1.99 release? > (Or any other 1.99 specific info either for that matter) There was only one entry for 1.99 in our NEWS file. I've gone through ChangeLog and fleshed that out a lot. Here's

release notes for 1.99 ?

2010-09-01 Thread Bruce Edge
Is there a release notes page for the upcoming 1.99 release? (Or any other 1.99 specific info either for that matter) Thanks -Bruce ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: status of grub netboot in GRUB2

2010-09-01 Thread John Lumby
Thanks for the numerous replies.    Some comments interspersed and one question at the end. Lennart Sorensen wrote: |  What is the point of having a bootloader that needs to sit on a disk on |  a box, when then network boots?  With PXE and the like you don't need |  any disk and means you are r

Re: Grub-devel Digest, Vol 79, Issue 1

2010-09-01 Thread Tom Davies
Booting an iso image Can grub2 be installed on a partition (perhaps on a usb-stick) and boot up to a boot-menu with options to boot into any iso files it finds in a particular folder? Could grub2 boot up a set iso file that is always in a same place? Regards from Tom :) _

[PATCH] Bash completion script for util commands

2010-09-01 Thread Yves Blusseau
* Makefile.am: Add util/bash-completion.d directory * configure.ac: Likewise. * util/bash-completion.d/Makefile.am: New file. * util/bash-completion.d/grub-completion.bash.in: Likewise. --- ChangeLog.completion.bash |6 Makefile.am

[PATCH 1/2] Define some usefull variables

2010-09-01 Thread Yves Blusseau
* configure.ac: Define some usefull variables. --- ChangeLog.new-variables |2 ++ configure.ac| 15 +++ 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 ChangeLog.new-variables diff --git a/ChangeLog.new-variables b/ChangeLog.new-variables

[PATCH 2/2] Use the new created variables

2010-09-01 Thread Yves Blusseau
* util/grub-install.in: Use default variables. * util/grub-mkconfig.in: Likewise. * util/grub-reboot.in: Likewise. * util/grub-set-default.in: Likewise. --- ChangeLog.use-new-variables |6 ++ util/grub-install.in| 19 +++ util/grub-

[PATCH 0/2] Add some usefull variables

2010-09-01 Thread Yves Blusseau
Hi, i have defined some usefull variables in configure.ac, so they can be used in the script or source files. --- ChangeLog.new-variables |2 ++ ChangeLog.use-new-variables |6 ++ configure.ac| 15 +++ util/grub-install.in| 19 +++--