Re: [PATCH] don't abort with error if realpath fails

2006-09-22 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Friday 22 September 2006 08:44, Robert Millan wrote: > On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 07:42:38AM +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > > On Thursday 21 September 2006 19:34, Robert Millan wrote: > > > Sure. The purpose of realpath here isn't really to verify device > > > existance; that ought to happen l

Re: [PATCH] don't abort with error if realpath fails

2006-09-22 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Friday 22 September 2006 08:49, Robert Millan wrote: > (Besides, this code is only enabled on GNU/Linux. I think this shows that > the intention when writing it wasn't error-sensitivity) Wrong. The code was written only for GNU/Linux. That's it. I didn't bother myself with porting the install

Re: Regression with grub-probefs

2006-09-22 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Friday 22 September 2006 00:08, Robert Millan wrote: > Looks like grub-probefs is broken in current CVS: Thanks. I will take a look tomorrow. Okuji ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

when is menu.lst read in grub process

2006-09-22 Thread Damon Register
After a while of Googling, reading grub documentation and struggling to understand some of grub, I am still stuck. I have found in my own life that understanding how something works is very important in dealing with problems when they occur. AT this point I don't have any specific problems with

Re: when is menu.lst read in grub process

2006-09-22 Thread Pádraig Brady
Damon Register wrote: > After a while of Googling, reading grub documentation and struggling > to understand some of grub, I am still stuck. I had the same issue when I had to setup grub in a non standard way. I read the source and documented the process here: http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/disk/

Re: [PATCH] don't abort with error if realpath fails

2006-09-22 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 01:54:48PM +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > On Friday 22 September 2006 08:44, Robert Millan wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 07:42:38AM +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > > > On Thursday 21 September 2006 19:34, Robert Millan wrote: > > > > Sure. The purpose of realpat

[PATCH] grub-probefs --root-device

2006-09-22 Thread Robert Millan
This would be very useful to get rid of ugly kludges in Debian, such as this one: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-grub/grub2/trunk/debian/update-grub?op=file&rev=0&sc=0 (look for convert() here) Fortunately grub-probefs is already doing what we need, we just need a way to tell it to print the

Re: [PATCH] grub-probefs --root-device

2006-09-22 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 06:33:13PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > This would be very useful to get rid of ugly kludges in Debian, such as this > one: > > http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-grub/grub2/trunk/debian/update-grub?op=file&rev=0&sc=0 > (look for convert() here) > > Fortunately grub-pr

Re: [PATCH] grub-probefs --root-device

2006-09-22 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Friday 22 September 2006 18:33, Robert Millan wrote: > This would be very useful to get rid of ugly kludges in Debian, such as > this one: > > http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-grub/grub2/trunk/debian/update-grub?op=file&; >rev=0&sc=0 (look for convert() here) > > Fortunately grub-probefs is alre