Re: Putting core.img anywhere

2008-07-25 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:40:27AM +0200, Jean-Christophe Haessig wrote: > > Furthermore, the scheme you propose looks overly complicated [1] > > Complicated ?? You must be kidding me ! A ten-year old would understand > it. It is way more complicated to include filesystem support in a > bootloader

Re: Putting core.img anywhere

2008-07-23 Thread Jean-Christophe Haessig
Le mardi 22 juillet 2008 à 23:47 +0200, Robert Millan a écrit : > > > As I stated earlier my disks are not DOS-partitioned (e.g. > > pvcreate /dev/hda). I didn't want to have one useless level > > Turns out it wasn't as useless as you thought :-) heh :) > > since LVM already does the job (bett

Re: Putting core.img anywhere

2008-07-22 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 11:13:08AM +0200, Jean-Christophe Haessig wrote: > > As I stated earlier my disks are not DOS-partitioned (e.g. > pvcreate /dev/hda). I didn't want to have one useless level Turns out it wasn't as useless as you thought :-) > since LVM already does the job (better). LVM

Re: Putting core.img anywhere

2008-07-21 Thread Javier Martín
El lun, 21-07-2008 a las 11:13 +0200, Jean-Christophe Haessig escribió: > Le dimanche 20 juillet 2008 à 17:06 +0200, Javier Martín a écrit : > Hi, > > > This should have been fixed by the transition to LZMA as the compression > > algorithm for PC - core.img should now be under 32K and embeddable i

Re: Putting core.img anywhere

2008-07-21 Thread Jean-Christophe Haessig
Le dimanche 20 juillet 2008 à 17:06 +0200, Javier Martín a écrit : Hi, > This should have been fixed by the transition to LZMA as the compression > algorithm for PC - core.img should now be under 32K and embeddable in > the 32256 bytes available before the first MBR partition. As I stated earlier

Re: Putting core.img anywhere

2008-07-20 Thread Javier Martín
El sáb, 19-07-2008 a las 19:24 +0200, Jean-Christophe Haessig escribió: > Hi, Hi there! > > I have an unusual LVM setup where GRUB cannot be installed (see last > Threads on LVM) because there is no room for core.img. This should have been fixed by the transition to LZMA as the compression algorit

Putting core.img anywhere

2008-07-20 Thread Jean-Christophe Haessig
Hi, I have an unusual LVM setup where GRUB cannot be installed (see last Threads on LVM) because there is no room for core.img. The only place where boot data can be put is on a logical volume, but the bootsector (one of diskboot.S or boot.S, I assume) isn't smart enough to understand LVM or file