[PATCH] Don't install empty starfield directory

2012-03-05 Thread Mike Gilbert
If the starfield theme is disabled, the build system currently creates an empty directory when you run make install. This confuses grub-install, which simply checks for -d $pkgdatadir/themes/starfield. The attached patch avoid creating the empty directory by moving the definition of starfielddir t

Re: grub-probe seems to be having problems

2012-03-05 Thread Lennart Sorensen
e any hints: root@rceng03new:~/grub2-1.99+20120305/build/grub-ieee1275# ./grub-probe --target=fs --device /dev/md1 grub-core/kern/disk.c:230: Opening `hostdisk//dev/sda'... grub-core/kern/disk.c:230: Opening `hostdisk//dev/sda'... grub-core/disk/diskfilter.c:127: Scanning for DISKFILT

Re: grub-probe seems to be having problems

2012-03-05 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sat, Mar 03, 2012 at 11:00:28PM +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > On 01.03.2012 20:47, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > >root@rceng03new:~# /usr/sbin/grub-probe --device /dev/md1 --target=partmap > >/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: disk `mduuid/dc00bd3a0e9491bb0b66fa8b9246c2e8' > >not

Re: Ideas for the future

2012-03-05 Thread Andreas Vogel
Am 05.03.2012 13:54, schrieb Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko: 5) menuentry --silent 0|1 When using menuentries which just sets some variables or do some other (non booting tasks), it's really bothering to see a flickering empty terminal box just for nothing. When this flag

Re: Ideas for the future

2012-03-05 Thread Andreas Vogel
Am 05.03.2012 13:54, schrieb Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko: >> option with an optional argument. By this we would have had what you >> preference and my way too. Regarding optional arguments the option >> handling in GRUB is actually broken by design, so this is, >> unfortunately, not an op

Re: Frozen

2012-03-05 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Mar 04, 2012 at 01:17:29PM +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > On 01.03.2012 20:15, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > >On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 01:37:10PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > >>gcc-4.4 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../../grub-core -I.. -Wall -W > >>-I../../../include -I.

Re: hey all

2012-03-05 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Mar 04, 2012 at 02:16:52PM +, Chris C wrote: > I is new here and thought it would be a good idea to contribute to the > project seen as i been using grub for so long. > > Not sure what the current status or idea is for setting the install > environment, eg qemu, multiboot, pc etc. Ther

Re: Ideas for the future

2012-03-05 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
(CC'ing Colin because of theme stuff and it overlaps with what he needs for Ubuntu) By this it would be possible to use a quite generic theme.txt file for different resolutions, etc. This is already possible. Use percent notation for desired size and BTW, another point which might be address

Re: Device instability, gettext and default

2012-03-05 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 05.03.2012 12:51, Andreas Vogel wrote: Am 05.03.2012 01:34, schrieb Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko: On 05.03.2012 01:20, Andreas Vogel wrote: Am 05.03.2012 01:03, schrieb Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko: options? Any special reason? 2) Why do you refuse to allow short options

Re: Device instability, gettext and default

2012-03-05 Thread Andreas Vogel
Am 05.03.2012 01:34, schrieb Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko: > On 05.03.2012 01:20, Andreas Vogel wrote: >> Am 05.03.2012 01:03, schrieb Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko: options? Any special reason? >>> 2) Why do you refuse to allow short options for all of the menuentry >>> Becau

Re: Ideas for the future

2012-03-05 Thread Andreas Vogel
Am 05.03.2012 02:30, schrieb Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko: >> this works already. For submenus this doesn't work as the submenu >> entries are not re-evaluated after execution of it's menuentries. >> Example: >> set lang=us >> menuentry 'Boot with lang=$lang' { ... ; linux lang=$

Re: Ideas for the future

2012-03-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko, le Mon 05 Mar 2012 02:40:57 +0100, a écrit : > On 05.03.2012 02:35, Samuel Thibault wrote: > >Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko, le Mon 05 Mar 2012 02:30:11 +0100, a > >écrit : > >>>6) menuentry --enabled 0|1 > >>>It's a good practice to show menuentries