How to use xzio?

2010-12-27 Thread Seth Goldberg
Hi, I'm trying to experiment with loading xz-compressed multiboot modules and cannot figure out how to do it so that the xzio module can actually deal with the compressed file (after instrumenting it, the problem is "unsupported xz options"), I've tried simply compressing the file I'm inter

Re: `"prefix" is not set` error message in early GRUB startup

2010-12-27 Thread Seth Goldberg
however there's a problem -- if gzio does exist on the tftp server and it's loaded, when we hit gzio during the grub_load_modules() iteration, a fatal error occurs (we should be able to detect this and just ignore the fact that the module as already been loaded). Sorry -- this is wrong. I

Re: `"prefix" is not set` error message in early GRUB startup

2010-12-27 Thread Seth Goldberg
Hi, Following up on this, I tried moving the calls to grub_machine_set_prefix() and grub_set_root_dev() before the call to grub_load_modules(), and while it does result in the prefix and root variables getting set earlier, it's still possible to have error messages emitted, depending on the

Re: GRUB2 fails when booting from CD

2010-12-27 Thread Andreas Born
Ok, here you go. I created the same iso image I referred to earlier in this thread with grub 1.98 and cdfailinf/cdfailwa patch applied. cdfailinf (broken machine): 0 0 0 cdfailinf (working machine): 0 0 9f cdfailwa brings up the menu on the broken machine and on another working machine, where