Re: Command extension suggestions

2007-06-14 Thread Marco Gerards
Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 01:50:38PM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: >> Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 12:49:26PM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: >> >> Well, I see the problem but I do not agree with the solution. >> >> >> >> The problem

Re: Command extension suggestions

2007-06-14 Thread Bean
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 01:50:38PM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: > Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 12:49:26PM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: > >> Well, I see the problem but I do not agree with the solution. > >> > >> The problem for GRUB 2 is that initrd is very linux s

Re: Command extension suggestions

2007-06-14 Thread Marco Gerards
Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 12:49:26PM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: >> Well, I see the problem but I do not agree with the solution. >> >> The problem for GRUB 2 is that initrd is very linux specific. It's >> part of a loader. Perhaps we either have to extend loopb

Re: Command extension suggestions

2007-06-14 Thread Bean
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 12:49:26PM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: > Well, I see the problem but I do not agree with the solution. > > The problem for GRUB 2 is that initrd is very linux specific. It's > part of a loader. Perhaps we either have to extend loopback to load a > file into memory on befo

Re: Command extension suggestions

2007-06-14 Thread Marco Gerards
Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 11:42:24AM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: >> Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> [...] >> >> >> That sounds much cleaner IMHO. But IIRC (md) is already in use by the >> >> RAID/LVM stuff ? >> >> >> > >> > Maybe (mem) ? >> >> When woul

Re: Command extension suggestions

2007-06-14 Thread Bean
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 11:42:24AM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: > Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > >> That sounds much cleaner IMHO. But IIRC (md) is already in use by the > >> RAID/LVM stuff ? > >> > > > > Maybe (mem) ? > > When would this be useful? You can use it to dump physi

Re: Command extension suggestions

2007-06-14 Thread Marco Gerards
Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] >> That sounds much cleaner IMHO. But IIRC (md) is already in use by the >> RAID/LVM stuff ? >> > > Maybe (mem) ? When would this be useful? > Also, I don't know if GRUB2 kernel support initrd. You can start grub4dos > like this: > > kernel /grub.exe > i

Re: Command extension suggestions

2007-06-13 Thread Bean
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 08:08:09AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 11:46:49AM +0800, Bean wrote: > > These ideas are mostly from grub4dos, I think they can be useful in GRUB2. > > > > 1. cat > > > > In addition to the current function, cat can also generate hexadecimal > >

Re: Command extension suggestions

2007-06-13 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 11:46:49AM +0800, Bean wrote: > These ideas are mostly from grub4dos, I think they can be useful in GRUB2. > > 1. cat > > In addition to the current function, cat can also generate hexadecimal dump, > and it can optionally choose the range of bytes to display. For example

Command extension suggestions

2007-06-13 Thread Bean
These ideas are mostly from grub4dos, I think they can be useful in GRUB2. 1. cat In addition to the current function, cat can also generate hexadecimal dump, and it can optionally choose the range of bytes to display. For example: cat [--hex] [--skip=S] [--length=L] FILE Sometimes it's useful