Re: Contribution: a file loading module

2011-06-24 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 25.06.2011 05:35, Graeme Russ wrote: > Hi Vladimir, > > On 25/06/11 13:23, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: >> This is perfectly accomodated by multiboot specification. Just add a >> small structure somewhere in the first 8K of the file and your image is >> multiboot-compliant. > Tha

Re: Contribution: a file loading module

2011-06-24 Thread Graeme Russ
Hi Vladimir, On 25/06/11 13:23, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > This is perfectly accomodated by multiboot specification. Just add a > small structure somewhere in the first 8K of the file and your image is > multiboot-compliant. Thanks for the advice, but I have a few questions (p

Re: Contribution: a file loading module

2011-06-24 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 25.06.2011 04:24, Graeme Russ wrote: > would fit my needs perfectly. The U-Boot images are raw (not ELF) with a > 32-bit entry point at the first byte of the file but this may change (I may > put the version string at the start of the file) so the optional > execute_address could come in handy.

Re: Contribution: a file loading module

2011-06-24 Thread Graeme Russ
On 24/06/11 01:42, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > On 17.06.2011 18:11, Pierre-Nicolas Clauss wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> I subscribed to this list in order to share with you a humble >> contribution of mine to grub. >> >> As an OS developer enthusiastic, I needed to load a file to mem

Re: [PATCH] Font antialiasing v2

2011-06-24 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Was this the latest version? I wanted to apply this feature but this seems to be latest version but doesn't contain requested corrections. On 24.02.2010 14:52, Evgeny Kolesnikov wrote: > Hello! > > Here is improved patch for fonts anti-aliasing. Includes: > > 1) Optimized blending blitters for 8-bi

[PATCH] CRCR64

2011-06-24 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
-- Regards Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko === modified file 'Makefile.util.def' --- Makefile.util.def 2011-06-24 20:16:05 + +++ Makefile.util.def 2011-06-24 21:29:27 + @@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ common = grub-core/lib/LzmaEnc.c; common = grub-core/lib/pbkdf2.c; common = grub-core/

Re: Mounting a virtual hard-disk and booting from it

2011-06-24 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 03:02:14PM -0400, Swapnesh Chaubal wrote: > I use a script from VMWare to read a virtual hard-disk and then mount it to > a drive in Linux. How can I boot from this mounted drive using grub (I need > to mount the drive before booting to any OS). I could have all the mounting

Re: [MERGE] * util/grub-mkconfig_lib.in: Add some more missing quotes.

2011-06-24 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 25.05.2011 20:52, Alexander Kurtz wrote: > Dear GRUB developers, > > please merge the attached patch adding some more quoting to > grub-mkconfig_lib. This should really fix Debian bug #612417. > > Best regards > > Alexander Kurtz Applied, thanks. Next time please add a Changelog entry > > >

Re: Contribution: a file loading module

2011-06-24 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 24.06.2011 11:33, Pierre-Nicolas Clauss wrote: > 2011/6/24 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko : >> On 23.06.2011 23:45, Pierre-Nicolas Clauss wrote: You need to just add a small header to make this kernel multiboot-compliant (read multiboot header and multiboot kludge) >>> I know, b

Re: Contribution: a file loading module

2011-06-24 Thread Brendan Trotter
Hi, Note: I am me. I speak on behalf of myself only, and don't represent the views of the GRUB team in any way. On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 7:03 PM, Pierre-Nicolas Clauss wrote: > Are you saying that : > > kernel /my_multiboot_kernel > chainloader /my_chainloader > boot > > will load the kernel as p

Re: Problem with at_keyboard module

2011-06-24 Thread Yves Blusseau
Le 20/06/2011 09:18, Yves Blusseau a écrit : Hi all, i have some problems with the at_keyboard module: when the at_keyboard is loaded in memory (via insmod or directly include in core.img) the keyboard is freezed when i start another "kernel" with multiboot command for example. My keyboard is

Re: Contribution: a file loading module

2011-06-24 Thread Pierre-Nicolas Clauss
2011/6/24 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko : > On 23.06.2011 23:45, Pierre-Nicolas Clauss wrote: >>> You need to just add a small header to make this kernel >>> multiboot-compliant (read multiboot header and multiboot kludge) >> I know, but I have to give up my chainloader if I want to use a >