Re: [Patch] Enable libzfs detection on Linux

2011-11-10 Thread Robert Millan
oot for ZFS without libzfs?" thread). Did you see this part of the thread? -- Robert Millan ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: getroot for ZFS without libzfs?

2011-10-16 Thread Robert Millan
2011/10/16 Robert Millan : >> What is the device node list used for? To list devices that each need grub >> installed, or for something else? > > grub-probe internally needs access to the raw devices because it wants > to use GRUB codepaths to obtain fs_uuid and such. In oth

Re: getroot for ZFS without libzfs?

2011-10-16 Thread Robert Millan
d externally. ABI changes without notice, there's no soname update and no versioning information. See: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=645305 -- Robert Millan ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: getroot for ZFS without libzfs?

2011-10-16 Thread Robert Millan
for? To list devices that each need grub > installed, or for something else? grub-probe internally needs access to the raw devices because it wants to use GRUB codepaths to obtain fs_uuid and such. -- Robert Millan ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-de

Re: getroot for ZFS without libzfs?

2011-10-15 Thread Robert Millan
layer like they currently do with LVM or mdRAID, but they don't need the device node list anymore (since it's filled with a full scan, as with LVM). -- Robert Millan === modified file 'configure.ac' --- configure.ac 2011-08-19 20:49:48 + +++ configure.ac 2011-10-15 16:42:10 +00

Re: getroot for ZFS without libzfs?

2011-08-12 Thread Robert Millan
> not intended for linking against also makes me wonder if the syslib exception > is a concern for that. But SUN/Oracle has linked GRUB with libzfs. This is a good indication that they trust this method to be safe (it's our copyright which would be infringed by them

Re: getroot for ZFS without libzfs?

2011-08-10 Thread Robert Millan
, it's probably moot for now.  It might be slightly more > elegant to use pure Grub code given that all of the underlying functionality > is there already, I agree. But I'm still concerned about the technical problems. -- Robert Millan __

Re: getroot for ZFS without libzfs?

2011-08-09 Thread Robert Millan
le to us is /dev/zfs. But is that device meant to be used directly? How stable is this interface? -- Robert Millan ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: Loongson 2E boot failure

2011-08-03 Thread Robert Millan
rub_machine_mmap_iterate() with something like: grub_err_t grub_machine_mmap_iterate (grub_memory_hook_t hook) { hook (0x8100, 8200, GRUB_MEMORY_AVAILABLE); return GRUB_ERR_NONE; } -- Robert Millan ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-deve

Re: FreeBSD relocator crash

2011-02-10 Thread Robert Millan
4-14 - kfreebsd /boot/kfreebsd-8.1-1-amd64.gz - kfreebsd_module_elf /lib/modules/8.1-1-amd64/opensolaris.ko - kfreebsd_module_elf /lib/modules/8.1-1-amd64/zfs.ko -- Robert Millan ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: grub-extras legal and technical status (was Re: ZFS imported into GRUB)

2010-12-15 Thread Robert Millan
e applied to the result. This doesn't imply that you licensed any code under GPL, only that your license terms (or in this case, your lack of copyright assertion) are compatible with the GPL. -- Robert Millan ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: ZFS imported into GRUB

2010-12-02 Thread Robert Millan
ifferent one is leaving the GNU system without its bootloader. -- Robert Millan ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

ZFS imported into GRUB

2010-12-02 Thread Robert Millan
t the code covered by them can be used freely. If you intend for your code to be free for all users, always use the latest version of the GPL. -- Robert Millan ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: future of grub commands setup and install ?

2010-09-10 Thread Robert Millan
2010/9/10, lode leroy : > It may be easy to copy files onto the filesystem, but > not-so-easy > to create a working native grub. What's hard about grub-install /dev/sda ? -- Robert Millan ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-deve

Re: future of grub commands setup and install ?

2010-09-09 Thread Robert Millan
from GRUB is not possible. Given that setup command can only perform part of this, it is unrealistic to pretend setup command is useful. This is why it was removed. -- Robert Millan ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

gazillon of double-free

2010-09-08 Thread Robert Millan
is not allocated but we free it anyway. Or perhaps I'm missing something? (it's late here, I need some sleep) -- Robert Millan ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: LiveCD bootloader

2010-09-08 Thread Robert Millan
iewsvn/d-i/trunk/installer/build/boot/kfreebsd/grub-kfreebsd-cdrom.cfg?revision=64460&view=markup -- Robert Millan ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: LiveCD bootloader

2010-09-08 Thread Robert Millan
; the monitor; it's mostly only a problem with Linux itself now. Not with Linux either, just "set gfxpayload=keep" and GRUB will preserve video mode when giving control to Linux. -- Robert Millan ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: Bug#593467: grub-pc: add support for root ext2/xfs on GNU/kFreeBSD

2010-08-20 Thread Robert Millan
arded). Let me know if there were a problem with other filesystems. -- Robert Millan === modified file 'ChangeLog' --- ChangeLog 2010-08-19 23:15:23 + +++ ChangeLog 2010-08-20 14:34:56 + @@ -1,3 +1,13 @@ +2010-08-20 Robert Millan + + Make kFreeBSD code more generic to support ext2

Re: Bug#593467: grub-pc: add support for root ext2/xfs on GNU/kFreeBSD

2010-08-20 Thread Robert Millan
it would be possible to build UFS as a module. -- Robert Millan 2010-08-20 Robert Millan * util/grub.d/10_kfreebsd.in (kfreebsd_entry): Add generic module load routine. Map GRUB `ext2' to kFreeBSD `ext2fs'. === modified file 'util/grub.d/10_kfreebsd.in' --- util/grub.

Re: grub-setup on ZFS (Re: [PATCH] Enable `grub-probe -t device' resolution on ZFS)

2010-08-17 Thread Robert Millan
ot), but I can't see any advantage in providing two ways to do the same thing, specially when it isn't obvious they are equivalent. Also, in ZFS there isn't a single device name that identifies the whole pool (as with mdraid), which would make the semantics even more confusing. -- Ro

Re: [PATCH] add grub-mbchk utility to grub

2010-08-12 Thread Robert Millan
filename, mbh->load_addr); + return 0; + } -- Robert Millan ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: [PATCH] add grub-mbchk utility to grub

2010-08-12 Thread Robert Millan
2010/8/10, Scott Moser : > Hi all, >I've been playing around with multiboot images, and found grub 0.97's > 'mbchk' to be very useful. Its really nice from a shell script or other > to easily answer "is this file a multiboot image?". > >The attached patch basically copies mbchk.c from grub

Re: grub-setup on ZFS (Re: [PATCH] Enable `grub-probe -t device' resolution on ZFS)

2010-08-04 Thread Robert Millan
I'd also point out that the device where grub-setup will embed core.img is a minor issue here, since it's trivial to run grub-setup multiple times. The real problem is putting /boot/grub/ in a mirrored filesystem so that either copy of core.img will be able to access this directory from any of the

grub-setup on ZFS (Re: [PATCH] Enable `grub-probe -t device' resolution on ZFS)

2010-08-04 Thread Robert Millan
2010/8/4, Seth Goldberg : >> I don't think this is the appropiate place for this kind of sanity check. >> Keep in mind "grub-probe -t device" has many purposes, and for some of >> them >> (e.g. determining the partmap) the ZFS status is irrelevant. > >Hmm. I do see your point here, but then I'

Re: [PATCH] ZFS "(dev)/foo@/" pathnames

2010-08-01 Thread Robert Millan
Committed, with some adjustments. I put the new code in misc.c instead of getroot.c to prevent grub-mkrelpath (and others) from having to drag a gazillon other files in. ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinf

system-installed libzfs.h and libnvpair.h (Re: [PATCH] Enable `grub-probe -t device' resolution on ZFS)

2010-08-01 Thread Robert Millan
2010/7/30, Robert Millan : > Unfortunately there are availability problems with libzfs.h and libnvpair.h. > On > FreeBSD they're not installed system-wide. On OpenSolaris I can't see them > installed either (although in this one I'm probably missing something).

[PATCH] ZFS root in 10_kfreebsd.in

2010-07-31 Thread Robert Millan
This adds support for ZFS root in 10_kfreebsd.in. It works with current trunk if my grub-mkrelpath patch has been applied, and if ZFS from grub-extras has been built into GRUB. 2010-07-31 Robert Millan * util/grub.d/10_kfreebsd.in: Initialize ${kfreebsd_device} as the kFreeBSD device name

Re: [PATCH] Enable `grub-probe -t device' resolution on ZFS

2010-07-31 Thread Robert Millan
2010/7/30, Seth Goldberg : > > You need to ensure that the deivce given isn't degraded. It's certainly > possible to boot with a mirrored root with one device degraded. If you > choose > that device for grub-setup, you may fail to write to it or you may succeed, > but something else may prevent

Re: [PATCH] Enable `grub-probe -t device' resolution on ZFS

2010-07-31 Thread Robert Millan
2010/7/30, Seth Goldberg : > Ah, ok. As long as we try the system-installed libzfs.h first, I'm ok > then. We do now. ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: [PATCH] Enable `grub-probe -t device' resolution on ZFS

2010-07-30 Thread Robert Millan
2010/7/30, Seth Goldberg : >I saw your commit of these changes. Why are you delivering a libzfs.h > and libnvpair.h? > I think GRUB should be using the headers that are installed on > the systems [...] Unfortunately there are availability problems with libzfs.h and libnvpair.h. On FreeBSD t

Re: [PATCH] ZFS "(dev)/foo@/" pathnames

2010-07-30 Thread Robert Millan
Same patch with a bit of cleanup, and ChangeLog entry. 2010/7/29, Robert Millan : > This patch is a proof of concept for solving the ZFS "(dev)/foo@/" > pathname problem at the lowest possible level: a small change in > grub_make_system_path_relative_to_its_root() propagates in

Re: [PATCH] Enable `grub-probe -t device' resolution on ZFS

2010-07-30 Thread Robert Millan
This patch adds OpenSolaris support as well, but unfortunately I can't test it. I will commit if someone (Seth?) can confirm it works. === modified file 'configure.ac' --- configure.ac 2010-07-30 19:43:12 + +++ configure.ac 2010-07-30 20:20:43 + @@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ else fi # Check for

Re: [PATCH] Enable `grub-probe -t device' resolution on ZFS

2010-07-30 Thread Robert Millan
2010/7/30, Seth Goldberg : > Don't forget to check the state of the device also. Can you be more specific? I notice a "state" integer variable associated with the pool (none associated with the device), which has a zero-value in my case (I assume this indicates no error). What kind of errors can

Re: [PATCH] Enable `grub-probe -t device' resolution on ZFS

2010-07-30 Thread Robert Millan
2010/7/29, Seth Goldberg : > > This code will not handle a mirrored root pool. See the Solaris > implementation of vdev_get_physpaths() and zpool_get_config_physpath(). Thanks for the pointer. I avoid reading libzfs source, but looking at the dump from nvlist_print(), the problem seems obvious

[PATCH] ZFS "(dev)/foo@/" pathnames

2010-07-29 Thread Robert Millan
This patch is a proof of concept for solving the ZFS "(dev)/foo@/" pathname problem at the lowest possible level: a small change in grub_make_system_path_relative_to_its_root() propagates into all the places in grub-install and grub-mkconfig that are affected by the problem. It factors some of the

Re: [PATCH] Enable `grub-probe -t device' resolution on ZFS

2010-07-29 Thread Robert Millan
New version, with a few bugfixes (find_mount_point_from_dir logic, use heap allocation, support pools with multiple filesystems). ChangeLog entry is the same. === modified file 'configure.ac' --- configure.ac 2010-07-04 22:45:14 + +++ configure.ac 2010-07-29 13:43:00 + @@ -247,7 +247,7 @@

[PATCH] Enable `grub-probe -t device' resolution on ZFS

2010-07-29 Thread Robert Millan
Please test / comment / etc. 2010-07-29 Robert Millan Enable `grub-probe -t device' resolution on ZFS. * configure.ac: Check for getfsstat(), libzfs and libnvpair. * include/grub/util/libnvpair.h: New file. * include/grub/util/libzfs.h: New file. * kern/emu/getroot.c: Include `

Re: libzfs

2010-07-28 Thread Robert Millan
2010/7/28, Tuco : > I was already on this. I made some progress and have libzfs now, > expect zpool/zfs to follow soon. Here is my patch if you want to build > libzfs yourself: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=5;filename=libzfs.diff;att=1;bug=590639 Very nice. Thanks. __

Re: ZFS on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD

2010-07-28 Thread Robert Millan
2010/7/28, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko : > I don't think that the design needs changes but I'm open to discussion. My proposal seemed like an improvement in design, which I wanted to do before dealing with grub-install/grub-mkconfig. But obviously I've missed some details, and things are

Re: ZFS on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD

2010-07-23 Thread Robert Millan
The problem I see with current zfs.mod is that it integrates with GRUB using the "filesystem model", i.e. each pool has one backend (the storage device) and one frontend (the filesystem). But ZFS is different in both ends: each pool can use N storage devices and provide M filesystems. In the curre

Re: ZFS on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD

2010-07-23 Thread Robert Millan
2010/7/21 Tuco : > Is this a known problem? Should I investigate? Can you give some guideline? If you want to help, you could have a look at porting libzfs over to GNU/kFreeBSD. It's likely that GRUB will need it, and in either case the Debian folks definitely will. __

Re: ZFS on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD

2010-07-23 Thread Robert Millan
2010/7/22 Seth Goldberg >> I guess the API exported by libzfs can serve for this?  But first, I >> have some concern about zfs.mod, I'll write a detailed mail about that >> later. > >  That's how I'm implementing it, though libzfs is technically an uncommitted > interface. What are you currently

Re: ZFS on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD

2010-07-22 Thread Robert Millan
Hi, This has been on my radar for a while now, I'll have a look at it (today I start my vacation and have some spare time (but don't hold your breath...)). 2010/7/21, Seth Goldberg : > The main problem is that the st_dev that you'll get from a call to stat() of > a file on a ZFS filesystem won't

Re: grub2 and hybrid MBR booting

2010-07-05 Thread Robert Millan
2010/7/3, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko : > Using GUID in GPT to locate the embedded zone would be good but it has > nothing to do with this standard. Robert made some work in this > direction but never finished (he wrote MBR but not some required changes > to diskboot.img) and nobody picke

hybrid DOS/GPT and BIOS Boot Partition

2010-07-02 Thread Robert Millan
Hi, Sorry for breaking the thread, but I just stepped in because I participated in the standarisation of the BIOS Boot Partition mechanism, and in early discussions about this hybrid DOS/GPT protocol which led to the standard being discussed, and I want to clarify something. GRUB implements the B

freeze announcement

2010-02-15 Thread Robert Millan
Hi, trunk repository is now frozen in preparation for GRUB 1.98, which will be released soon, most likely this month. I leave Vladimir in charge of this freeze process. Please ask him for approval when in doubt. -- Robert Millan "Be the change you want to see in the world"

Re: PlayStation 3 liberated

2010-01-29 Thread Robert Millan
e on this Cell. > Robert where did you find this bit of news? IRC. -- Robert Millan "Be the change you want to see in the world" -- Gandhi ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: PlayStation 3 liberated

2010-01-29 Thread Robert Millan
't as much as getting Grub to work, but finding an exploit > that works without hardware interaction. Well that would be very interesing indeed, but in GRUB project we're generally concerned about improving GRUB... -- Robert Millan "Be the

Re: [multiboot2] Tagged multiboot2 header

2010-01-29 Thread Robert Millan
whereas projects that don't use ELF are almost invariably proprietary OS and never showed any interest in Multiboot. -- Robert Millan "Be the change you want to see in the world" -- Gandhi ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

PlayStation 3 liberated

2010-01-28 Thread Robert Millan
ummer. -- Robert Millan "Be the change you want to see in the world" -- Gandhi ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

PXE directory listing incorrectly reported as "success"

2010-01-26 Thread Robert Millan
ing, what would be a good solution to this? We could add a proper probe() function and switch all filesystems to it, but only for the benefit of pxe it seems a bit overkill. Does someone have a better idea? -- Robert Millan "Be the change you want

Re: On gratuitous modularization

2010-01-26 Thread Robert Millan
k_ata_pass_through' is a hack. A cleaner design would be > possible with a grub_disk_dev.ioctl(.) call. The problem I see with 'grub_disk_ata_pass_through' is that it shouldn't be in kernel. The interface itself is less relevant IMO. -- R

Re: Changes in GRUB help

2010-01-25 Thread Robert Millan
ug.org website. You can do that if you lile; it's a wiki. -- Robert Millan "Be the change you want to see in the world" -- Gandhi ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

On gratuitous modularization

2010-01-25 Thread Robert Millan
out.mod, which is just a helper for loaders of *BSD kernels. Please also see Okuji's article on this subject: http://grub.enbug.org/OnSplittingModules -- Robert Millan "Be the change you want to see in the world" -- Gandhi ___ Gr

Re: [PATCH] [RESEND] GRUB script lexer rewrite using flex

2010-01-24 Thread Robert Millan
some size increase. Has this changed, or I'm missing something? -- Robert Millan "Be the change you want to see in the world" -- Gandhi ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: [PATCH] make 'sleep --interruptible 0' interruptible

2010-01-24 Thread Robert Millan
ant to help with polishing at_keyboard, usb_keyboard and the USB stack, that'd be most welcome. -- Robert Millan "Be the change you want to see in the world" -- Gandhi ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: [PATCH] nested partitions

2010-01-24 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 08:31:35AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > When you hide complexity from the user, the user doesn't generally care or > want to understand what this involves. When we accept "(hd0,1)" from the > user, it implies we know what's the partition

Re: [multiboot2] Tagged multiboot2 header

2010-01-24 Thread Robert Millan
ow and afterwards when looking at Bazaar history). -- Robert Millan "Be the change you want to see in the world" -- Gandhi ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: [PATCH] Multiboot video support

2010-01-24 Thread Robert Millan
know if you'd call this hardware information, but if a screen is physically rotated, it's clearly not software. -- Robert Millan "Be the change you want to see in the world" -- Gandhi ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: [PATCH] nested partitions

2010-01-24 Thread Robert Millan
er, the user doesn't generally care or want to understand what this involves. When we accept "(hd0,1)" from the user, it implies we know what's the partition label in hd0, but reality is that we're just guessing. User, however, will expect things to "just work", and

Re: [PATCH] nested partitions

2010-01-24 Thread Robert Millan
s that use probing don't necessarily imply that. For example, GRUB could do: grub> ls (hd0) Possible msdos label: 1 2 3 Possible gpt label: 1 2 etc. -- Robert Millan "Be the change you want to see in the world" -- Gandhi

Re: grub payload fails on coreboot

2010-01-24 Thread Robert Millan
x0518 > Now going to write high coreboot table at 0xbfffe000 > rom_table_end = 0xbfffe000 Did you try with testing coreboot+GRUB on qemu? -- Robert Millan "Be the change you want to see in the world" -- Gandhi ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: comment about grub_error, capitalisation and one commit

2010-01-24 Thread Robert Millan
would be nice. If you'd like to implement it, I think it should be possible to verify this entirely in build time. -- Robert Millan "Be the change you want to see in the world" -- Gandhi ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.

Re: [PATCH] nested partitions

2010-01-24 Thread Robert Millan
hitecturally it's not a problem to > support (as Vladimir's existing implementation already supports arbitrary > nesting). Note that it is very easy for Intel to specify and implement that: in their world there's only one partition label type (plus another one which is backward co

Re: [PATCH] nested partitions

2010-01-24 Thread Robert Millan
they like, but they will also have to deal with the problem of identifiing the labels. Minix: (hd0,msdos1,msdos1) Solaris: (hd0,msdos2,sun1) *BSD: (hd0,msdos3,bsd1) With this approach, the burden is no longer in GRUB. Then I don't care how weird disk layouts can become, because GRUB doesn

Re: [PATCH] Multiboot video support

2010-01-24 Thread Robert Millan
> the OS so that the OS console output is displayed the same way > automatically. Makes sense. Can you draft a proposal? -- Robert Millan "Be the change you want to see in the world" -- Gandhi ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-d

Re: Announcing GRUB 1.97.2

2010-01-24 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 07:36:51PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > - A number of header declarations had their copyright/license headers > missing. They had been imported in GRUB Legacy many years ago, and > recently found their way into the 1.97 release. The files in ques

Announcing GRUB 1.97.2

2010-01-24 Thread Robert Millan
ys DEA2C38E and rerun the `gpg --verify' command. This release was bootstrapped with the following tools: Autoconf 2.61 Ruby 1.8.7 GCC 4.4 is the recommended version for building it, although any version starting with 4.1.3 is supported in this release. -- Robert Millan "Be the cha

Re: [PATCH] nested partitions

2010-01-22 Thread Robert Millan
nes have. If you strive for compatibility, GPT is a good choice IMO (and the rest of the free world seems to be moving in this direction thanks to 2 TiB limit). [1] I know the first one is already implemented, but your approach makes it less ad-hoc and splits code off part_msdos.mod, whic

[PATCH] gfxmenu relative path in "file" component of images

2010-01-20 Thread Robert Millan
This makes it possible to use relative paths in the "file" component of gfxmenu images. I've tested that it works, but I'd appreciate if someone more familiar with gfxmenu can review it. -- Robert Millan "Be the change you want to see in the world" -- Gan

Re: [multiboot] command-line format

2010-01-19 Thread Robert Millan
STEM_PATH}) prepare_grub_to_access_device ${SYSTEM_PATH} echo "multiboot ${GRUB_PATH} ${SYSTEM_PATH}" Then your system tools obtain a path that makes sense to them. -- Robert Millan "Be the change you want to see in the world" -- Gandhi

Re: Build error: "ENABLE_NLS" is not defined

2010-01-19 Thread Robert Millan
ind . -name '*.[ch]' -exec sed -i -e 's, ENABLE_NLS, > (defined(ENABLE_NLS) \&\& ENABLE_NLS),g' '{}' ';' This affects gnulib/error.c and gnulib/gettext.h which would be much better not to change, as they're being imported semi-automatically. Perhap

Re: [PATCH] Add 2 more E820 to ACPI specification

2010-01-19 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 12:17:26AM +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > Robert Millan wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 06:18:43PM +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' > > Serbinenko wrote: > > > >> Hello. This defines

Re: keyboard layout patches

2010-01-19 Thread Robert Millan
> and then in font/font.c: > > static const char section_names_file[4] = { 'F', 'I', 'L', 'E' }; > static const char pff2_magic[4] = { 'P', 'F', 'F', '2' }; > > ? > > If should be in a macro (as I

Re: keyboard layout patches

2010-01-19 Thread Robert Millan
cue mode and at_keyboard? I mean, extreme cases > that Grub for some reason could not reach the keyboard layout file. What's the total size we're talking about? -- Robert Millan "Be the change you want to see in the world" -- Gandhi ___

Re: keyboard layout patches

2010-01-19 Thread Robert Millan
use keyboard layouts with languages! You probably meant US keyboard. -- Robert Millan "Be the change you want to see in the world" -- Gandhi ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: [PATCH] switch from sprintf to asprintf and snprintf

2010-01-19 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:56:48PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:29:14PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 01:02:55PM +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' > > Serbinenko wrote: > > > Robert Millan wrote: > > >

Re: [PATCH] [RESEND] GRUB script lexer rewrite using flex

2010-01-19 Thread Robert Millan
that in principle it shouldn't go in trunk untill after next release (1.98). -- Robert Millan "Be the change you want to see in the world" -- Gandhi ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: Bazaar workflow for GRUB

2010-01-19 Thread Robert Millan
us are relatively new to Bazaar, so we might be just missing it. -- Robert Millan "Be the change you want to see in the world" -- Gandhi ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: [PATCH] Some tests using unit-testing-framework

2010-01-19 Thread Robert Millan
icense header. Btw, feel free to commit this and also add new tests directly into trunk, as long as they can run succesfuly in any sane build environment. Thanks -- Robert Millan "Be the change you want to see in the world" -- Gandhi __

Re: [PATCH] Add 2 more E820 to ACPI specification

2010-01-19 Thread Robert Millan
's the difference between this reserved memory and a reserved area? -- Robert Millan "Be the change you want to see in the world" -- Gandhi ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: [multiboot] abstractmbi, modules

2010-01-19 Thread Robert Millan
are these > assumptions? Loader in GRUB 2 tends to put MBI and associated structures right after payload code (unlike GRUB Legacy which uses a fixed location below 1 MiB). -- Robert Millan "Be the change you want to see in the world" -- Gandhi ___

Re: [PATCH] Multiboot video support

2010-01-19 Thread Robert Millan
trunk and experimental) unless someone provides a very good reason to provide it. -- Robert Millan "Be the change you want to see in the world" -- Gandhi ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: Bazaar workflow for GRUB

2010-01-19 Thread Robert Millan
published) and then merge it into trunk. We had worse problems with the situation Colin Watson described. -- Robert Millan "Be the change you want to see in the world" -- Gandhi ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://li

Re: EFI boot problem with MBP 5,4

2010-01-19 Thread Robert Millan
ier macbooks (e.g. MBP4,1). Given this note in commit log: > [...] This is somewhat hacky, but it > appears to be the only way to do this that does not break some some > set of existing bootloaders. I think you should report it to them. -- Robert Millan "Be the cha

Re: [PATCH] switch from sprintf to asprintf and snprintf

2010-01-19 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 01:02:55PM +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > Robert Millan wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 09:32:24AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > > >> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 10:30:12AM +0100, Vladimir '

Re: RFC: Support Linux command line variants in grub-mkconfig

2010-01-19 Thread Robert Millan
; internationalization. Suggestions of wildly different > approaches/configuration interfaces are welcome. I think this is growing severely overengineered. It is already more complex than it needs to be. The scripts in /etc/grub.d *are* config files. There

Re: IA64 port

2010-01-18 Thread Robert Millan
oadable module support. (btw FAT fixes were merged separately) -- Robert Millan "Be the change you want to see in the world" -- Gandhi ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: [multiboot] command-line format

2010-01-17 Thread Robert Millan
ation. It would almost be funny if it wasn't because they managed to put their i8086-encumbered legacy in every modern machine around the world. -- Robert Millan "Be the change you want to see in the world" -- Gandhi ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: [multiboot] command-line format

2010-01-15 Thread Robert Millan
on (OpenSolaris'). P.S: please forward this message to the relevant NetBSD mailing list(s) if you think this is appropiate. TIA -- Robert Millan "Be the change you want to see in the world" -- Gandhi ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Multiboot video in GRUB (Re: [RFC] Multiboot ammendment: non-VBE video)

2010-01-12 Thread Robert Millan
e. Could the EFI parts be split into a separate patch? I definitely want both things, but they're separate changes, would be good to have the additional granularity if possible. -- Robert Millan "Be the change you want to see in the world" -- Gandhi ___

Re: [RFC] Multiboot ammendment: non-VBE video

2010-01-12 Thread Robert Millan
Hi, I committed your last patch with some minor stylistic adjustments, plus your changes to the example kernel. -- Robert Millan "Be the change you want to see in the world" -- Gandhi ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gn

Re: Invalid symbol table on NetBSD boot

2010-01-08 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 01:44:25AM +0100, Grégoire Sutre wrote: > Robert Millan wrote: > >> I suggest you test if GRUB Legacy's Multiboot loader supports this >> properly, as the code I used derives from that. > > Yes, the problem disappears with GRUB Legacy's m

Re: GRUB update problems

2010-01-08 Thread Robert Millan
not sure how to make this happen. FWIW, if anyone who reads this is willing to help the GRUB project by watching help-grub and helping with user requests there, he/she's more than welcome to do that. -- Robert Millan "Be the change you want to see in the world" -- Gandhi __

Re: [PATCH] Search hinting support

2010-01-08 Thread Robert Millan
already has the desired information. -- Robert Millan "Be the change you want to see in the world" -- Gandhi ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: GRUB 1.98 available in debian lenny, How to get fancy terminal ?

2010-01-07 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 02:38:24PM -0800, Colin D Bennett wrote: > > When you say “existing fonts” do you mean there is a font other than > unifont? Not that we currently provide. -- Robert Millan "Be the change you want to see in the wo

Re: GRUB 1.98 available in debian lenny, How to get fancy terminal ?

2010-01-07 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 07:59:57PM +0530, J. Bakshi wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I am happy to see the availability of grub 1.98 That's very unlikely. I don't recall having released 1.98 yet ;-) -- Robert Millan "Be the change you want to see

Re: GRUB 1.98 available in debian lenny, How to get fancy terminal ?

2010-01-07 Thread Robert Millan
xmenu to mainstream as soon as possible, I would _strongly_ recommend to use the existing fonts for now) Also, if you'd like to make an official GRUB theme with GNU-based image set, you're more than welcome. -- Robert Millan "Be the c

Re: error message

2010-01-07 Thread Robert Millan
his. See: https://savannah.gnu.org/task/?10024 -- Robert Millan "Be the change you want to see in the world" -- Gandhi ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

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