Re: patches not acted upon

2009-01-24 Thread Jerone Young
Next week I was going to hunt all the patches I personally missed or had not been commited yet by someone else. Been so busy lately havn't had time. But I did commit one of your patches. 1)[PATCH] grub-install message should mention --recheck This one really isn't necessary. Kind of agreed with t

EFI through virtualization?

2009-01-11 Thread Jerone Young
You guys wouldn't happen to know any good ways to test out EFI through virtualization. I see some Qemu stuff that is rather old. But I'm not too trusting of it's funcationality now. I'd like to play around and test/debug some of the grub2 efi support, without having to buy a Mac. Any ideas? ___

Re: [PATCH] Converter for the new font engine

2009-01-07 Thread Jerone Young
Collin does your java converter need to stay in the repo now that grub-mkfont is there? Any benefits to it over grub-mkfont? On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Colin D Bennett wrote: > On Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:18:15 +0200 > Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: > > > Bean wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > This patch

Re: [PATCH] GSoC #10 new font engine (UTF-8 support+bugfix)

2009-01-05 Thread Jerone Young
e On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 1:59 AM, Colin D Bennett wrote: > On Sun, 4 Jan 2009 23:05:40 -0600 > "Jerone Young" wrote: > > > File util/fonttool/src/org/gnu/grub/fonttool/PFF2Loader.java didn't > > make it into the repository. > > > > J

Re: [PATCH] --build-id= none in newer ld versions PowerPC

2009-01-04 Thread Jerone Young
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2008-12/msg00024.html It is the attachment. On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 12:53 AM, Pavel Roskin wrote: > Quoting Jerone Young : > > Did anyone have any objections to this patch. Not sure if anyone had any >> craving to use --build-id. If

Re: [PATCH] --build-id= none in newer ld versions PowerPC

2009-01-04 Thread Jerone Young
Did anyone have any objections to this patch. Not sure if anyone had any craving to use --build-id. If not I'll check it in in the next week. Jerone On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 8:08 AM, Manoel Rebelo Abranches < mrab...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrot

Re: [PATCH] menu.c clearer instructions

2009-01-04 Thread Jerone Young
Committed a variant of this patch into the repository. Thanks, Jerone On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 4:54 PM, wrote: > 2008-12-27 jida...@jidanni.org > >* normal/menu.c: print clearer instructions on the screen > > --- menuORIG.c 2008-12-

Re: [PATCH] GSoC #10 new font engine (UTF-8 support+bugfix)

2009-01-04 Thread Jerone Young
File util/fonttool/src/org/gnu/grub/fonttool/PFF2Loader.java didn't make it into the repository. Jerone On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Colin D Bennett wrote: > On Fri, 2 Jan 2009 16:44:49 -0600 > "Jerone Young" wrote: > > > I just paid attention

Re: Building a steady release cycle

2009-01-04 Thread Jerone Young
). Jerone On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Jerone Young wrote: > Hey guys, > > I wanted to start up a discussion on building a steady release > cycle. Many distros are now looking for some stability from Grub 2 as they > are looking to include it in future releases. I was

Building a steady release cycle

2009-01-04 Thread Jerone Young
Hey guys, I wanted to start up a discussion on building a steady release cycle. Many distros are now looking for some stability from Grub 2 as they are looking to include it in future releases. I was recently at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in December discussing the possibility of includin

Re: [PATCH] GSoC #10 new font engine (UTF-8 support+bugfix)

2009-01-02 Thread Jerone Young
I just paid attention to this (sorry). So everything seems fine. But the dependency on a proprietary java stack to generate fonts isn't good. Does it happen to work with gcc java ? On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: > Colin D Bennett wrote: > > Well, I don't have time r

Re: [PATCH] menu.c clearer instructions

2008-12-30 Thread Jerone Young
I'll track your patches. If everyone comes to a consensus on them in a week I'll commit them to the repo. I agree with Pavel also that using "Ctrl-" is more descriptive then what is there now. What other patches where you going to submit like this? On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 8:09 PM, wrote: > >>>

Re: [PATCH] fix serial console on LinuxBIOS

2007-11-07 Thread Jerone Young
Does Linux bios only allow for two serial ports? Are theres ports addresses hard coded into Linux BIOS? I also creating all the machine.h for one ifdef is a little much. But it may be needed. The ifdef in serial.c should be changed to #ifdef GRUB_MACHINE_LINUXBIOS #else Also what I don't under

Re: GRUB2 Multiboot and 64bit OSes

2007-09-30 Thread Jerone Young
Yes the OS should switch the processor into long mode. You will need to add this logic to the kernel that you are writing (I'm assuming that you are, as this logic is already in Linux or FreeBSD). On 9/30/07, Simon Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > is it true that GRUB2 multiboot, while

Re: GRUB on powerpc

2007-08-29 Thread Jerone Young
Hollis Blanchard can better answer this but I think I have most the answers for you..see below. On 8/29/07, Proneet Biswas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, >I am fairly new to the grub bootloader. So if the question is already > answered, please feel free to point me to the relevant pointer

Re: grub2 ChangeLog conf/i386-pc.rmk conf/powerpc-i...

2007-08-07 Thread Jerone Young
te: > Hello, > > On Thursday 26 July 2007 00:28, Jerone Young wrote: > > This was no mistake. So here is the thinking here (I figured this > > would come up). The multiboot heads outside of the grub directory are > > not grub specific. This gives other operating systems or progr

Re: grub2 ChangeLog conf/i386-pc.rmk conf/powerpc-i...

2007-07-30 Thread Jerone Young
On 7/30/07, Marco Gerards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Jerone Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > This was no mistake. So here is the thinking here (I figured this > > would come up). The multiboot heads outside of the grub directory are > >

Re: grub2 ChangeLog conf/i386-pc.rmk conf/powerpc-i...

2007-07-25 Thread Jerone Young
them. They mainly contain definitions that are not just specific to grub, but multiboot. On 7/25/07, Vesa Jääskeläinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jerone Young wrote: > Added files: > include: multiboot.h multiboot2.h > include/grub : multiboot

Re: Grub2 does not compile anymore

2007-07-25 Thread Jerone Young
Just pulled fresh CVS and things do work. What needs to happen is that need to check in new .mk files. I'll generate new .mk files form the new .rmk files and all will be well. Normally when building grub I do: ./autogen <-- to generate the .mk files ./configure make So put in the new .mk files

Re: Grub2 does not compile anymore

2007-07-25 Thread Jerone Young
I'll fix this .. something didn't make it in to the grub CVS .. Thanks! On 7/25/07, Julien Ranc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Since last commit to the CVS by Jerone, Grub2 does not compile, at least for i386-pc target : The file multiboot.h is expected to be in the include/grub/machine/ direc

Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Add multiboot 2 capabilities

2007-07-25 Thread Jerone Young
CTED]> [070725 11:53]: > "Jerone Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm going to submit a new patch shortly. I'll also check it in. So it > > will not suffer from code rot :-) Need to make sure some stuff works > > on ppc then it'll be

Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Add multiboot 2 capabilities

2007-07-24 Thread Jerone Young
I'm going to submit a new patch shortly. I'll also check it in. So it will not suffer from code rot :-) Need to make sure some stuff works on ppc then it'll be in. Probably tonight or tomorrow. On 7/22/07, Marco Gerards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Jerone Young&q

Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Add multiboot 2 capabilities

2007-07-08 Thread Jerone Young
Will do the changes for the coding style (good point). On 7/7/07, Otavio Salvador <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Jerone Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > diff -r b85dfdfcce16 conf/powerpc-ieee1275.rmk > --- a/conf/powerpc-ieee1275.rmk Wed Jul 04 15:53:23 200

Re: GPL version 3

2007-07-04 Thread Jerone Young
I think we should leave Grub Legacy GPL v2 and move Grub 2 to GPL v3. Given Grub Legacy really has had little work on it and most distros are maintaining their own patches anyway. With little to no work on Grub Legacy going on anyway, no reason to create work for it :-) . I see Grub Legacy dieing

Re: installing on x86_64

2007-05-28 Thread Jerone Young
rub-install script uses) and it ran and when through the process just fine. I assume based on this the grub did install just fine (as it would have errored otherwise). On 5/27/07, Jeroen Dekkers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At Sat, 26 May 2007 19:44:09 -0500, Jerone Young wrote: > >

Re: installing on x86_64

2007-05-26 Thread Jerone Young
em in the past also. What I do need to know is how you are successfully compiling it . Is your gcc version less then 4.x ? On 5/26/07, Jeroen Dekkers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At Sat, 26 May 2007 18:14:23 -0500, Jerone Young wrote: > > Are you sure you did this on an x86-64 install.

Re: TPM chip and Grub bootloader

2007-05-26 Thread Jerone Young
There are some patches floating around in the world for grub1 to use TPM. Actually you can find it here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/trustedgrub/ It is still being kept up as there was a release this month. This would be a good project to look at, if you have not already. On 5/24/07, karmo

Re: installing on x86_64

2007-05-26 Thread Jerone Young
Are you sure you did this on an x86-64 install. Current CVS still suffers from the not being able to properly compile on x86-64 systems. I am looking into it again now, but I think you may be mistaken in how you are using it? What distro & gcc version are you using ? On 5/22/07, Constantine Kouso

Re: Issue in cvs kern/elf.c

2007-04-18 Thread Jerone Young
This is an obvious problem. Thanks for finding it Pattrick! I will commit the fix today. On 4/18/07, Pattrick Hueper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, testing grub2 on a 64bit platform i found an issue in kern/elf.c method grub_elf64_load. There are parentheses missing after the compare of re

Re: LVM as root device

2007-04-10 Thread Jerone Young
This may be a bigger problem. Trying CVS, it apears that LVM as the root device (where grub files are held ../boot is) does not currently work. Looking more into it now. On 3/26/07, Juan Pedro Paredes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: grub2+LVM+XEN issues 8< devel:/boot/grub# cat /boo

Re: cojnfigure error

2007-04-08 Thread Jerone Young
I plan to look into this problem this week actually. For some reason _start is not defined for x86-64 when using -m32. This is needed for some of the assembly code that is used. Not sure why exactly this is happening...I just know it's happening :-) On 4/9/07, James Lockie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro

Re: Mystery with parsing of grub.cfg

2007-03-21 Thread Jerone Young
This is fixed in current CVS. It was broken by a patch for nested menus, but has been fixed. On 3/21/07, Kirill REDbyte Novikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all! Didn't find any info abt this problem in google. After reinstallation of grub 1.97, OS choosing menu simply disappears (on some PCs)

How to generate .mk files from .rmk file ?

2007-03-15 Thread Jerone Young
Exactly how do you generate a .mk file from the .rmk files. What is the ruby command line to do this? ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

[PATCH] [RESEND] Fix probing for root on i386-pc where grub files are on same file system as root filesystem

2007-03-15 Thread Jerone Young
Signed-off-by: Jerone Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -r cca565f3c398 util/i386/pc/getroot.c --- a/util/i386/pc/getroot.c Sun Feb 11 09:48:36 2007 -0600 +++ b/util/i386/pc/getroot.c Sun Feb 11 19:02:00 2007 -0600 @@ -192,6 +192,13 @@ find_root_device (const char *dir, dev_t strip_extra_sla

[PATCH] [RESEND] More enhanced GNU GRUB program name transformations

2007-03-15 Thread Jerone Young
ithout issue. Giving distributions a migration path. Attached I have changes for i386-pc & powerpc . More then happy to do the foot work for others to get this integrated. Signed-off-by: Jerone Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -r d103f4d15eaa ChangeLog --- a/ChangeLog Thu Mar 15 20:05:02 2007 -0

Re: [PATCH] [UPDATE 2] More enhanced GNU GRUB program name transformations

2007-03-04 Thread Jerone Young
Are these patches ok? There does not seem to be much activity on the list. Is anyone still actively maintaining grub2? Whould love to see this and other patches I've sent to the list to be in cvs. On 2/17/07, Jerone Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've created a ChangeLo

Re: grub config file reading is busted in CVS

2007-02-18 Thread Jerone Young
the problem is "menu" is never set anywhere. The calling order is: grub_normal_execute() grub_readconfig_file() grub_env_get_data_slot() Though I'm very confused of how to exactly fix this with the logic in the patch. On 2/17/07, Jerone Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote

Re: [PATCH] Fix probing for root on i386-pc where grub files are on same file system as root filesystem

2007-02-17 Thread Jerone Young
-off-by: Jerone Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 2/14/07, Jerone Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Interesting. I will try this again. I was working with I believe fedora core 6. I noticed this was happening. It is not a symlink on fedora core 6. This may have something to do with udev.

Re: grub config file reading is busted in CVS

2007-02-17 Thread Jerone Young
I will try it out and get some output from it. On 2/12/07, Marco Gerards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Jerone Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Trying to get grub to read from grub.cfg file with the current code in > CVS appears to be busted. Release 1.95

Re: [PATCH] [UPDATE 2] More enhanced GNU GRUB program name transformations

2007-02-17 Thread Jerone Young
I've created a ChangeLog entry and have attaced all the patches along with it in this email. On 2/14/07, Yoshinori K. Okuji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Monday 12 February 2007 07:20, Jerone Young wrote: > I accidentally sent the wrong changes in the last email. So please

Re: [PATCH] Fix probing for root on i386-pc where grub files are on same file system as root filesystem

2007-02-14 Thread Jerone Young
Interesting. I will try this again. I was working with I believe fedora core 6. I noticed this was happening. It is not a symlink on fedora core 6. This may have something to do with udev. On 2/14/07, Yoshinori K. Okuji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Monday 12 February 2007 08:42, Jerone

[PATCH] Fix probing for root on i386-pc where grub files are on same file system as root filesystem

2007-02-11 Thread Jerone Young
it because it will find /dev/root first (this is a mistake). Signed-off-by: Jerone Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -r cca565f3c398 util/i386/pc/getroot.c --- a/util/i386/pc/getroot.c Sun Feb 11 09:48:36 2007 -0600 +++ b/util/i386/pc/getroot.c Sun Feb 11 19:02:00 2007 -0600 @@ -192,6 +192,13

[PATCH] [UPDATE 2] More enhanced GNU GRUB program name transformations

2007-02-11 Thread Jerone Young
I accidentally sent the wrong changes in the last email. So please pay them no attention. The patches in this email are the right ones. Signed-off-by: Jerone Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Here is a recap of what was in my previous email: This patch is derived from the patch sent earlier by L

[PATCH] [UPDATE] More enhanced GNU GRUB program name transformations

2007-02-11 Thread Jerone Young
Previous set of patches had a bug with the transformation lines. It would substitute the libdir, this causes problems when something in your libdir path matches your subsitution. This set fixes this issue. Signed-off-by: Jerone Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -r cca565f3c398 Makefile.in

[PATCH] More enhanced GNU GRUB program name transformations

2007-02-11 Thread Jerone Young
ithout issue. Giving distributions a migration path. Attached I have changes for i386-pc & powerpc . More then happy to do the foot work for others to get this integrated. All patches are attached. Signed-off-by: Jerone Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -r cca565f3c398 -r f643e910ecf8 Makefile.i

grub config file reading is busted in CVS

2007-02-10 Thread Jerone Young
Trying to get grub to read from grub.cfg file with the current code in CVS appears to be busted. Release 1.95 works fine and can read the grub.cfg file without a problem automatically. But with code in CVS it nolonger reads it automatically (meaning no nice bootup menu), and if you do read it in