[patch] Install modules into correct location

2006-03-28 Thread Roger Leigh
The modules are currently installed into "pkgdatadir". This is wrong, because datadir is for "read-only architecture-independent data", and the modules are object code, which belongs in libdir. The attached patch (against grub2 CVS HEAD) installs the modules into pkglibdir instead, which is in co

[patch] Distribute grub-install.in for powerpc

2006-03-28 Thread Roger Leigh
The attached patch distributes grub-install.in for powerpc. DISTLIST |1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) Regards, Roger -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://www.debian.org/

Re: software raid1

2006-03-28 Thread Tomáš Ebenlendr
> I was wrong. > md0 is hda1 + hdc1, but even after changing boot/grub/menu.lst and fstab > entries from hda1 to md0, hda1 still gets mounted on /, but RO and then > nothing works. when I boot to a live CD, it looks like md0 should go, > but I am missing somehting. > > btw - "I also need a scipt l

Re: [patch] Install modules into correct location

2006-03-28 Thread Marco Gerards
Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If this requires copyright assignment, I'll be happy to assign > copyright for this and all future work to the FSF. No, I do not think so. I think this patch and your other patch are both small enough. But if you expect you will continue to make contrib

Re: [patch] Distribute grub-install.in for powerpc

2006-03-28 Thread Hollis Blanchard
On Mar 28, 2006, at 3:39 AM, Roger Leigh wrote: The attached patch distributes grub-install.in for powerpc. Thanks for the patch! However, don't we want to distribute grub-install, not grub-install.in? -Hollis ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-d

Re: [patch] Distribute grub-install.in for powerpc

2006-03-28 Thread Marco Gerards
Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mar 28, 2006, at 3:39 AM, Roger Leigh wrote: > >> The attached patch distributes grub-install.in for powerpc. > > Thanks for the patch! However, don't we want to distribute > grub-install, not grub-install.in? We distribute it for the PC already,

Re: grub2 on apple ppc

2006-03-28 Thread Marco Gerards
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, > I've tested grub2 on a newworld powermac G4 booting a linux kernel; if I > don't use the fake "title" command, ie grub2 calls grub_cmdline_run, it > works. Instead, If I use a cfg file like > > title Linux > linux ... This syntax is not correct anymore. For the

Re: mkfs command in grub

2006-03-28 Thread Marco Gerards
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Could someone who knows the code please envisage what should be done > in order to implement the mkfs module? First of all, I would not call the command mkfs. Better just restrict the functionality to swap, that can give you some assertions to begin with. First just

Re: software raid1 grub patches

2006-03-28 Thread Carl Karsten
Not exactly -- I've got patches for GRUB Legacy's grub-install if you're interested in looking at them. They're in the Fedora grub package, or I can mail them to you if you need. looks like I have it: http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/g/grub/grub_0.97-1ubuntu8/changelog grub (

Re: software raid1 grub patches

2006-03-28 Thread Peter Jones
On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 14:53 -0600, Carl Karsten wrote: > > Not exactly -- I've got patches for GRUB Legacy's grub-install if you're > > interested in looking at them. They're in the Fedora grub package, or I > > can mail them to you if you need. > > looks like I have it: > > http://changelogs.ub

Re: software raid1

2006-03-28 Thread Peter Jones
On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 13:29 +0200, Tomáš Ebenlendr wrote: > > I was wrong. > > md0 is hda1 + hdc1, but even after changing boot/grub/menu.lst and fstab > > entries from hda1 to md0, hda1 still gets mounted on /, but RO and then > > nothing works. when I boot to a live CD, it looks like md0 should g

Re: [patch] Install modules into correct location

2006-03-28 Thread Roger Leigh
Marco Gerards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> If this requires copyright assignment, I'll be happy to assign >> copyright for this and all future work to the FSF. > > No, I do not think so. I think this patch and your other patch are > both small enough.

Re: [patch] Install modules into correct location

2006-03-28 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Tuesday 28 March 2006 11:37, Roger Leigh wrote: > The modules are currently installed into "pkgdatadir". This is wrong, > because datadir is for "read-only architecture-independent data", and > the modules are object code, which belongs in libdir. Thank you for your report. You are right. Your

Re: [patch] Distribute grub-install.in for powerpc

2006-03-28 Thread Hollis Blanchard
On Mar 28, 2006, at 9:51 AM, Marco Gerards wrote: Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Mar 28, 2006, at 3:39 AM, Roger Leigh wrote: The attached patch distributes grub-install.in for powerpc. Thanks for the patch! However, don't we want to distribute grub-install, not grub-insta

Re: software raid1

2006-03-28 Thread Tomáš Ebenlendr
> ... but grub loads the kernel and the ramdisk, and then the kernel > executes the ramdisk. The RAID has to work (for reads, anyway) before > then. > > -- > Peter What do you mean work? Grub will read from one disk ignoring it is in RAID1, in this case. And I don't know current implementation