GRUB2 - testing report, hppa support?

2006-12-04 Thread Nico -telmich- Schottelius
Hello! I am testing grub2 on Soerkis net4801 (x86, geode, serial only, booting from flash). The documentation is pretty bad and grub-install is half broken (will perhaps fix it, when I've time). grub-setup's --help is confusing, it does not tell the user that the images will be changed. Serial

Re: multiboot2: make multiboot header optional

2006-12-04 Thread Hollis Blanchard
On Sat, 2006-12-02 at 18:27 +0100, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > > Reversely, I ask you a question. What is the real advantage in using > tags in a Multiboot header? > > From my point of view, it is not necessarily very extensible or > flexible, as our experience shows that changes to the Multiboot

Re: multiboot2: make multiboot header optional

2006-12-04 Thread Marco Gerards
"Yoshinori K. Okuji" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Saturday 02 December 2006 17:18, Marco Gerards wrote: >> What is the problem with typing? I do not think this is really >> complex? > > Weird. It was _you_ who pointed out that specifying tags would be annoying on > the IRC... I am all for s

Re: grub2 accessibility: beeps

2006-12-04 Thread Marco Gerards
"Yoshinori K. Okuji" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thursday 30 November 2006 20:50, Marco Gerards wrote: >> Perhaps, I was thinking about something like: >> >> menuentry "foo" --beep=pitch,duration >> >> In that case it looks like a command. > > I don't like this, either. My preference is to us