Re: Migrating to GRUB 2 in Debian (Re: Interesting GSoC project ideas for 09)

2009-03-28 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Sunday 22 March 2009 21:50:22 Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > On Sunday 22 March 2009 21:29:23 Robert Millan wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 04:01:35PM +0900, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > > > I will work towards this direction. I will first fix up the sector > > > handling and change the format to

Re: Migrating to GRUB 2 in Debian (Re: Interesting GSoC project ideas for 09)

2009-03-22 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Sunday 22 March 2009 22:23:53 phcoder wrote: > Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > > On Sunday 22 March 2009 19:48:36 phcoder wrote: > >> Hello, I agree that non-sector aligned writes should be handled > >> correctly. However I disagree with removing of the magic number. I > >> personally would prefer i

Re: Migrating to GRUB 2 in Debian (Re: Interesting GSoC project ideas for 09)

2009-03-22 Thread phcoder
Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: On Sunday 22 March 2009 19:48:36 phcoder wrote: Hello, I agree that non-sector aligned writes should be handled correctly. However I disagree with removing of the magic number. I personally would prefer if this file would have magic number and checksum. AFAIK currently

Re: Migrating to GRUB 2 in Debian (Re: Interesting GSoC project ideas for 09)

2009-03-22 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Sunday 22 March 2009 19:48:36 phcoder wrote: > Hello, I agree that non-sector aligned writes should be handled > correctly. However I disagree with removing of the magic number. I > personally would prefer if this file would have magic number and > checksum. AFAIK currently grub2 doesn't write t

Re: Migrating to GRUB 2 in Debian (Re: Interesting GSoC project ideas for 09)

2009-03-22 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Sunday 22 March 2009 21:29:23 Robert Millan wrote: > On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 04:01:35PM +0900, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > > I will work towards this direction. I will first fix up the sector > > handling and change the format to plain text. Naming changes are quite > > trivial, so they can be d

Re: Migrating to GRUB 2 in Debian (Re: Interesting GSoC project ideas for 09)

2009-03-22 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 04:01:35PM +0900, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > > I will work towards this direction. I will first fix up the sector handling > and change the format to plain text. Naming changes are quite trivial, so > they can be done later. I notice some changes went in for the new imp

Re: Migrating to GRUB 2 in Debian (Re: Interesting GSoC project ideas for 09)

2009-03-22 Thread phcoder
Hello, I agree that non-sector aligned writes should be handled correctly. However I disagree with removing of the magic number. I personally would prefer if this file would have magic number and checksum. AFAIK currently grub2 doesn't write to FS except in load_env/save_env so a bug in code ca

Re: Migrating to GRUB 2 in Debian (Re: Interesting GSoC project ideas for 09)

2009-03-22 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Sunday 15 March 2009 14:52:05 Bean wrote: > On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 5:10 AM, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > > On Friday 13 March 2009 21:23:19 phcoder wrote: > >> Look at load_env/save_env commands and grub-editenv util > > > > Thanks. Now I really regret that I didn't find those additions earlier

Re: Migrating to GRUB 2 in Debian (Re: Interesting GSoC project ideas for 09)

2009-03-14 Thread Bean
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 5:10 AM, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > On Friday 13 March 2009 21:23:19 phcoder wrote: >> Look at load_env/save_env commands and grub-editenv util > > Thanks. Now I really regret that I didn't find those additions earlier. > > I do not like this implementation for the followi

Re: Migrating to GRUB 2 in Debian (Re: Interesting GSoC project ideas for 09)

2009-03-14 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Friday 13 March 2009 21:23:19 phcoder wrote: > Look at load_env/save_env commands and grub-editenv util Thanks. Now I really regret that I didn't find those additions earlier. I do not like this implementation for the following reasons: - The saved file is not plain text, unlike GRUB Legacy.

Re: Migrating to GRUB 2 in Debian (Re: Interesting GSoC project ideas for 09)

2009-03-13 Thread phcoder
Look at load_env/save_env commands and grub-editenv util Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: On Thursday 05 March 2009 05:59:52 Robert Millan wrote: We don't need a complete match of all the GRUB Legacy features in order to migrate. The things I identified as needed for migration in Debian are listed her

Re: Migrating to GRUB 2 in Debian (Re: Interesting GSoC project ideas for 09)

2009-03-13 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Thursday 05 March 2009 05:59:52 Robert Millan wrote: > We don't need a complete match of all the GRUB Legacy features in order to > migrate. The things I identified as needed for migration in Debian are > listed here: > > http://wiki.debian.org/GrubTransition > > I think Xen is fixed now thou