multi-boot

2014-06-13 Thread Gene Czarcinski
In second 5.3 of the GNU GRUB 2.00 manual, there is a statement "Currently autogenerating config files for multi-boot environments depends on os-prober and has several shortcomings." I agree. Os-prober and the way it works with 30_os-prober is fragile at best and sometimes produces incorrect c

How should 30_os-prober be working?

2014-06-13 Thread Gene Czarcinski
This deals with 30_os-prober and the os-prober package itself. In days of old, it was linux and initrd for linux systems (ignoring linuxefi and initrdefi). Fedora 21 is in the process of starting up and it brings in grub2-2.02-0.3 and os-prober-1.58-7. While these updates bring in improved s

Re: BUGS: btrfs multi-device support fixes

2013-10-27 Thread Gene Czarcinski
On 10/27/2013 11:24 AM, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: В Sun, 27 Oct 2013 10:47:45 -0400 Gene Czarcinski пишет: On 10/27/2013 02:54 AM, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: В Sat, 26 Oct 2013 16:16:19 -0400 Gene Czarcinski пишет: On 10/26/2013 12:27 PM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:

Re: BUGS: btrfs multi-device support fixes

2013-10-27 Thread Gene Czarcinski
On 10/27/2013 02:54 AM, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: В Sat, 26 Oct 2013 16:16:19 -0400 Gene Czarcinski пишет: On 10/26/2013 12:27 PM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: Rejected, similar patches is in trunk since some time. Thanks. I was not aware that the problem had been

Re: BUGS: btrfs multi-device support fixes

2013-10-26 Thread Gene Czarcinski
On 10/26/2013 12:27 PM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: Rejected, similar patches is in trunk since some time. Thanks. I was not aware that the problem had been addressed. Can you point me where to look to see what has been addressed? Gene On 26.10.2013 17:36, Gene

BUGS: btrfs multi-device support fixes

2013-10-26 Thread Gene Czarcinski
There are two patches needed in grub2 to support multi-device btrfs volumes. This first patch (previously submitted) involves the parameters passed to grub2-probe. If not correctly passed, grub2-probe issues an error message. The related problem report is: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_

BUG: root on BTRFS multi-volume

2013-10-20 Thread Gene Czarcinski
grub2 has a problem handling the case where root ("/") resides on a BTRFS multi-volume storage. The patch below corrects the problem. This has been tested on both real and virtual hardware on Fedora 18, Fedora 19, and Fedora 20-Beta. I submitted this last January but it appears to have falle