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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
> >
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
