Hi! I have an amd64 machine with an add-on usb3 adapter which
works well with the linux xhci driver, but the machine's BIOS
doesn't see any disks in the usb3 docking station I use.
My (elderly) grub-1.99-rc1 also doesn't see the outboard usb3
drives, so grub is depending on the BIOS for disk dete
Hi grub2 team.
I'm having good results with the latest from the grub2 bzr repo, except
that "search -n -l foo" always probes the floppy just before it returns
with the correct device name.
I've also tried using --no-floppy instead of -n but grub still probes the
floppy drive anyway.
Is anyone e
On 01/23/2011 04:15 PM, Isaac Dupree wrote:
On 01/23/11 15:39, walt wrote:
Is there a way to make this configuration work? (I've used gdisk to
convert DOS partition tables to GPT, so far.)
Yes... make a BIOS Boot Partition!
Well, that's pretty obvious. The part I missed is tha
On 07/02/2010 05:39 AM, Robert Millan wrote:
...
When it comes to GPT, GRUB solved this by using a new instance of the
same unmanaged extension of the MBR: the BIOS Boot Partition...
Hi, I'm following grub2 again after a long absence, so I'm way behind,
sorry.
I have grub2 working perfectly (
On 06/25/2009 01:39 AM, Hongyi Zhao wrote:
Hi all,
I want to know whether it's possible to install grub4dos on utfs
partition? Any hints will be highly appreciated, thanks in advance.
This is a good place to ask your question:
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showforum=66
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> ...
OK, I then tried linux-doc-2.6.26/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt.gz:
rdinit= [KNL]
Format:
Run specified binary instead of /init from the ramdisk,
used for early userspace startup. See initrd.
So in grub2 I chose "e" to edit, and changed the li
Robert Millan wrote:
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 09:42:50PM +0200, Christian Franke wrote:
Some gcc versions generate a call to __enable_execute_stack() in
trampolines for nested functions. This is the case for new Cygwin gcc-4.3.2.
Other GRUB2 target platforms may be affected - the following files
Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
On Wednesday 16 July 2008 00:23:53 Pavel Roskin wrote:
Yes, that's my suggestion. I understand that you may feel uneasy about
it, but I don't think we are going to do many releases from the legacy
branch, maybe one or none at all.
It's OK to have stable and developmen
Bean wrote:
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 4:43 AM, walt<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...I'm using grub4dos because
grub2 won't (yet) boot a floppy image or chainload Vista's bootmgr.
Hi,
Well, you can actually achieve these function with some external
tools. Using memdisk, you
Collin Gregory wrote:
Hello everyone,
My name is Greg and i'm a french developper. I'm very interested in
helping for the grub 2 development. My skills are C++ , C and assembly,
i'm using linux for 6 years now and i'm sure i can help, if you would
agree to !...
Hi Greg,
I have an idea for you
I'm now using grub4dos to boot a floppy DOS image like this:
map --mem (hd0,0)/floppy.img (fd0)
map --hook
chainloader (fd0)+1
rootnoverify (fd0)
I'd like to switch to grub2 but so far I can't get it to
boot the same image. I've tried two methods:
loopback fd1 (hd0,1)/floppy.img
set root=fd1
ch
Robert Millan wrote:
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 05:44:28PM -0800, walt wrote:
Bean wrote:
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 8:29 AM, walt<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I just built grub2 from cvs to try all of Bean's wonderful work
with BSD/UFS and aout. I added no patches, and bui
Bean wrote:
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 8:29 AM, walt<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I just built grub2 from cvs to try all of Bean's wonderful work
with BSD/UFS and aout. I added no patches, and built on linux.
Everything seems to work very well indeed, except that the 'aout
I just built grub2 from cvs to try all of Bean's wonderful work
with BSD/UFS and aout. I added no patches, and built on linux.
Everything seems to work very well indeed, except that the 'aout'
command is still not available to me at the grub2 shell prompt.
It just doesn't appear on the list of a
On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 00:43 +0800, Bean wrote:
> ...
> Anyway, i think the bsd module should be fine, here is the whole
> patch, if nobody objects, i would like to commit it soon...
I vote yes, thanks. I can boot freebsd directly, openbsd directly,
netbsd directly or using multiboot. The only p
walt wrote:
On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 22:14 +0800, Bean wrote:
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 9:29 PM, walt<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I made a small openbsd image to send you, but it works perfectly with
your g2ldr so there's no point in sending it :o) I think that problem
is not wort
On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 22:14 +0800, Bean wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 9:29 PM, walt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I made a small openbsd image to send you, but it works perfectly with
> > your g2ldr so there's no point in sending it :o) I think that problem
>
Bean wrote:
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 9:29 PM, walt<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I made a small openbsd image to send you, but it works perfectly with
your g2ldr so there's no point in sending it :o) I think that problem
is not worth your time or mine.
BTW, how big is your uf
Bean wrote:
On Feb 14, 2008 4:31 AM, walt<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yes, this works perfectly except that I still can't read my openbsd
filesystem correctly. I can list / but none of the subdirectories,
and I can't even read a small text file from /. (I guess that also
means
Bean wrote:
On Feb 14, 2008 1:25 AM, walt<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...
I'm wondering if you have commited all of your UFS/FFS patches to
cvs. Seems like I'm seeing some old UFS problems that you fixed
once already(?).
Is it possible that your build is not clean ? you can
Bean wrote:
Ok. I also fix the alloc magic broken problem, it's caused by
grub_elf_file, which will close the file when the elf magic is not
found. However, the upper level still use that file, that cause the
memory problem.
The patch should be applied after the previous bsd.diff...
I'm very
On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 08:22 +0100, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> On Monday 11 February 2008 23:44, walt wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 16:56 +0100, Marco Gerards wrote:
> > > walt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > > NetBSD's gcc wants libgcc and libc to d
On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 16:56 +0100, Marco Gerards wrote:
walt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> NetBSD's gcc wants libgcc and libc to define __enable_execute_stack,
> but this is useless for a free-standing executable like grub. Define
> a dummy function in lieu
On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 04:46 +0800, Bean wrote:
> On Feb 12, 2008 4:45 AM, Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Change in this patch:
> >
> > 1. support OpenBSD kernel:
> >
> > set root=(hd0,3,a)
> > openbsd /bsd
> >
> > The modules name is changed to bsd.mod.
> >
> > 2. Support setting
Bean wrote:
Hi,
The following patch support freebsd a.out and elf, now you can load
the kernel directly.
1. Boot through loader:
set root=(hd0,0,a)
freebsd /boot/loader
It should be able to deduce the root device from the root variable.
I still see currdev=disk0s1c but that should be s1a, n
Bean wrote:
On Feb 10, 2008 5:57 AM, walt<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Bean wrote:
Hi,
This patch add a.out support for multiboot. It also support the boot2
loader (a.out format) of freebsd:
set root=(hd0,0,a)
aout_freebsd /boot/loader
boot
...
i'm using the web interface to
Bean wrote:
Hi,
This patch add a.out support for multiboot. It also support the boot2
loader (a.out format) of freebsd:
set root=(hd0,0,a)
aout_freebsd /boot/loader
boot
2008-02-10 Bean<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ...
Hi Bean, and thanks for the patch. Unfortunately, the patch is malformed
in at le
On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 01:32 +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 04:26:15PM -0800, walt wrote:
> > >diff --git a/kern/i386/loader.S b/kern/i386/loader.S
> > >index 266f4ef..88f3045 100644
> > >--- a/kern/i386/loader.S
> > >+++ b/k
Bean wrote:
On Feb 7, 2008 3:23 AM, walt<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
With Bean's last two commits I can almost replace legacy with grub2
at least on x86. I have still one problem with the aout support that
Bean posted as a patch on Jan 27.
Using legacy, which loads the FreeBSD /boo
With Bean's last two commits I can almost replace legacy with grub2
at least on x86. I have still one problem with the aout support that
Bean posted as a patch on Jan 27.
Using legacy, which loads the FreeBSD /boot/loader as the 'kernel',
loader then reads its config files from the /boot directo
On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 14:23 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 09:11:23AM -0800, walt wrote:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> In the course of actually trying to use the MultibootDraft, I've
> >> discove
Robert Millan wrote:
walt<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
NetBSD's gcc wants libgcc and libc to define __enable_execute_stack,
but this is useless for a free-standing executable like grub. Define
a dummy function in lieu of libgcc to supply __enable_execute_stack.
Second try:
On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 16:56 +0100, Marco Gerards wrote:
> walt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > NetBSD's gcc wants libgcc and libc to define __enable_execute_stack,
> > but this is useless for a free-standing executable like grub. Define
> > a dummy f
NetBSD's gcc wants libgcc and libc to define __enable_execute_stack,
but this is useless for a free-standing executable like grub. Define
a dummy function in lieu of libgcc to supply __enable_execute_stack.
Index: include/grub/mm.h
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On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 09:42 -0800, walt wrote:
> Marco Gerards wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Here is a patch for testing purposes. I hope people can test this on
> > actual hardware. Testing will help a lot for the development of the
> > ATA driver.
> > ...
>
Marco Gerards wrote:
Hi,
Here is a patch for testing purposes. I hope people can test this on
actual hardware. Testing will help a lot for the development of the
ATA driver.
...
Please tell me (read this before testing!):
1) Does it work perfectly (yes/no) as in, all devices are detected and
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
In the course of actually trying to use the MultibootDraft, I've discovered
some places where the draft and the grub2 implementation differ...
Hi Jonathan,
Are you using grub2/cvs with or without Bean's latest multiboot patch?
It still hasn't been committed, and I
On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 12:03 +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 03:55:59PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 11:06:50AM -0800, walt wrote:
> > >
> > > You can tell I'm desperate because I'm putting -lgcc everywhe
I got grub2 compiled on NetBSD, so now on to OpenBSD:
In file included from ../util/i386/pc/grub-mkimage.c:29:
../include/grub/misc.h:43: warning: conflicting types for built-in function
`memcpy'
In file included from ../util/i386/pc/grub-mkimage.c:33:
/usr/include/string.h:60: error: conflictin
Bean wrote:
On Jan 30, 2008 8:24 PM, walt<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Sorry, I gave you incomplete information. I can use 'multiboot' to load
the netbsd from any kind of fs, but it makes no difference: 'boot' then
causes the machine to reboot instantly. The same ap
Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
Hello.
I've just tried to install grub1 on an USB-stick in order to boot from
it, but it continues to fail:
I installed grub to a USB stick for the purpose of using it as an emergency
boot drive so I can use it to reinstall grub from the USB stick onto a hard
d
On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 08:38 -0800, walt wrote:
> Robert Millan wrote:
> ...
> > What happens if you define the missing symbols somewhere? Any part of
> > the GRUB kernel will do (e.g. kern/main.c). Just add them as empty
> > functions:
> >
> > void
> >
Robert Millan wrote:
Ok, so we need __enable_execute_stack then, I guess. I find it strange that
some parts of libgcc can not be used in freestanding code. Does this happen
with the unpatched version of GCC too?
Maybe we'll have add some dummy symbols to make it happy
What happens if you
On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 14:23 +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 06:37:50PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > > > > /usr/lib/libgcc.a(_enable_execute_stack.o): In function
> > > > > > `__enable_execute_stack':
> > > > > > _enable_execute_stack.c:(.text+0x40): undefined referen
On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 14:53 +0800, Bean wrote:
> On Jan 29, 2008 6:04 AM, walt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Bean wrote:
> > > On Jan 28, 2008 10:37 PM, walt<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > ...
> > >> Good news and bad news. With this patch and yo
Bean wrote:
On Jan 28, 2008 10:37 PM, walt<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...
Good news and bad news. With this patch and your most recent ufs patch
I can aout /boot/loader or multiboot /netbsd from a UFS partition, that
is the good news.
The bad news is that when I type 'boot
On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 19:48 +0800, Bean wrote:
> On Jan 28, 2008 5:11 PM, Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 04:10:42AM +0800, Bean wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > How FreeBSD-specific is this? Will the same module apply to other
> > > > > > a.out
> > > > > > bin
On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 04:25 +0800, Bean wrote:
...
> > > please make a small ufs image containing the netbsd kernel, i don't a
> > > a bsd system at hand
http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~wa1ter/ufs.gz
I included a small text file (motd) to demonstrate that you can cat it
okay, but when you try 'mul
On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 09:35 +0800, Bean wrote:
> On Jan 27, 2008 5:24 AM, walt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Apparently "something bad" happens to the kernel in the process of
> > reading or loading it from the UFS fs. I can read small text files
> &
On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 09:53 +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> I just committed a check in grub-probe that attempts to read and verify files
> using GRUB filesystems and compares them with output from your system. E.g.
> if you do: grub-probe -t fs /full/path/to/file it will compare and verify it
>
On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 23:01 +0800, Bean wrote:
> this is the patch, problems found:
>
> 1, the mbi structure is not initialized to all zeros, this means some
> important member, like mods_count, will contain trash.
> 2, the entry point in the header is virtual address, we need to
> translate it t
On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 18:21 +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 09:08:59AM -0800, walt wrote:
> > As a test of my tolerance for frustration I'm building grub2 on FreeBSD,
> > DragonFlyBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD, and (naturally) each build fails in a
> >
On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 18:24 +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 11:01:49PM +0800, Bean wrote:
> > this is the patch, problems found:
> >
> > 1, the mbi structure is not initialized to all zeros, this means some
> > important member, like mods_count, will contain trash.
> > 2, th
As a test of my tolerance for frustration I'm building grub2 on FreeBSD,
DragonFlyBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD, and (naturally) each build fails in a
different way, but all the problems seem related to mutations of gcc.
NetBSD:
The problem is the -nostdlib flag when linking kernel.exec. Adding -lc
On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 15:53 +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> Btw, if you put that kernel image somewhere, chances are higher that someone
> gives it a try...
http://rapidshare.com/files/86269193/netbsd.html
grub2 will certainly get fixed faster if one of you does the fixing :o)
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Marco Gerards wrote:
walt<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
...
I recompiled my NetBSD kernel with the MULTIBOOT option enabled, but
I still get a 'magic broken' error when doing 'multiboot /netbsd'.
Can it be loaded from GRUB Legacy using its multiboot capabilities?
Robert Millan wrote:
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 02:49:55PM -0800, walt wrote:
I recompiled my NetBSD kernel with the MULTIBOOT option enabled, but
I still get a 'magic broken' error when doing 'multiboot /netbsd'.
The kernel of NetBSD supports multiboot now? Or maybe it'
Bean wrote:
On Jan 24, 2008 12:15 AM, walt<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Bean wrote:
This patch should fix the problem...
Yes, thanks! I had to use the -l flag before patch would use it,
and even then the last hunk needed increased fuzz.
Are you going to commit it today?
thanks f
Bean wrote:
This patch should fix the problem...
Yes, thanks! I had to use the -l flag before patch would use it,
and even then the last hunk needed increased fuzz.
Are you going to commit it today?
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
The UFS (or FFS as it's known to NetBSD)
support in grub2 does not seem to work for me.
There was an interesting but strangely incomplete discussion of
UFS back in April 2007. Hitoshi Ozeki posted the attached patch,
which lets me list UFS filesystems but not read
Robert Millan wrote:
On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 04:14:38PM -0800, walt wrote:
I'm happy to report that the ata module no longer hangs as I described
above. I'm guessing (just a guess) that this commit fixed it:
2008-01-10 Robert Millan<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Robert Millan wrote:
On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 09:33:58AM -0800, walt wrote:
The other Athlon machine has one PATA drive on a VIA 8235 controller
and one SATA drive on a Promise controller. This machine makes it
through grub_ata_dumpinfo for both disks but then it hangs forever
without printing
Robert Millan wrote:
On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 12:26:03PM -0800, walt wrote:
...
The first machine has two ordinary PATA drives on a VIA 8235 controller
and grub2 complains that the firmware is tainted. Grub2 will use (ata1)
okay and lists all the partitions,
Nice. Is that controller in the
Hi grub group.
Beginning with the commits of 2007-10-31 my two Athlon machines won't
work properly with grub2, and I'd like to find out why.
The first machine has two ordinary PATA drives on a VIA 8235 controller
and grub2 complains that the firmware is tainted. Grub2 will use (ata1)
okay and l
Robert Millan wrote:
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 06:31:22AM -0700, walt wrote:
Christian Franke wrote:
For kern/i386/pc/startup.S:
#include "../realmode.S" // include pc-independent i386 realmode code
Should work without any -I option.
I considered that, but wouldn't it br
Christian Franke wrote:
Robert Millan wrote:
On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 06:56:21PM +0200, Christian Franke wrote:
Hi,
some recent checkin appearently introduces the following regression:
Compilation fails if configure'd outside of $(srcdir).
#include "kern/i386/realmode.S" and "kern/i386/loader.
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