Re: disk vs partition numbering

Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: On Saturday 09 December 2006 01:17, Hollis Blanchard wrote: On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 20:46 +0100, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: Oh, btw, it's HIGHLY confusing that disks start at 0, partitions at 1. Could you please fix it and make it consequently? either hd1,1 or hd0

Re: disk vs partition numbering

On Saturday 09 December 2006 01:17, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 20:46 +0100, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: As you know very well, GRUB Legacy follows the former. I decided to change it to the latter in GRUB 2, as I don't have to care about compatibilities with GRUB Legacy so muc

Re: multiboot2: make multiboot header optional

Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 21:35 +0100, Marco Gerards wrote: >> "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 >> >> c

Re: grub2 accessibility: beeps

"Yoshinori K. Okuji" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Monday 04 December 2006 21:40, Marco Gerards wrote: >> Well, the point that I am trying to make is that I would like to use >> hooks for this in some way. So you are not agreeing with the first >> alternative I suggested. But you ignored the

Re: EFI-dualbooting OSX and Linux on iMac with T7400-CPU

"Yoshinori K. Okuji" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sunday 03 December 2006 18:05, Eeri Kask wrote: >> After creating 4 partitions with MacOSX installation CD (and installing >> OSX) I installed Gentoo 2006.1 x86_64 onto the 4th partition (i.e. >> /dev/sda5; in OSX invisible FAT32 partition coun

Re: AMD64 configure error

James Lockie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > checking if start is defined by the compiler... no > checking if _start is defined by the compiler... no > configure: error: neither start nor _start is defined The reason this happens is that the 64 bits compiler is used to test these things, while we d

Re: for statements allowed outside menuentries?

adrian15 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is a question for Marco Gerards I suppose. > > I was asking myself if in grub2 code I was allowed to do: > > for (part in partitions) { > > menuentry($part) { > whatever($part.grub_string); > } > > } This is something I proposed a

Re: GRUB2 - testing report, hppa support?

Vincent Pelletier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Le mardi 05 décembre 2006 20:46, Yoshinori K. Okuji a écrit : >> > Oh, btw, it's HIGHLY confusing that disks start at 0, partitions at >> > 1. Could you please fix it and make it consequently? either hd1,1 >> > or hd0,0, but not hd0,1 or hd1,0. >> >>

Re: user-defined hooks

Hello! On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 01:59:18PM -0600, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > Defining the set of useful hooks, the arguments passed to each, and > documenting them will be critical. Also, just like with commands, once > we implement a hook we can't remove or change it without breaking config > files

Re: AMD64 configure error

Hello! On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 02:03:58PM +0100, Marco Gerards wrote: > James Lockie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > checking if start is defined by the compiler... no > > checking if _start is defined by the compiler... no > > configure: error: neither start nor _start is defined > > The reason

Re: EFI-dualbooting OSX and Linux on iMac with T7400-CPU

On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 01:49:10PM +0100, Marco Gerards wrote: > We need a real BTS soon. :-) You already have one and people are already using it, only the developers aren't: , 191 bugs reported, most about GRUB legacy, I guess. Regards, Thomas signa

Re: Conditionally building `grub-emu'

Hello! On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 03:47:09PM +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > On Sunday 22 October 2006 16:46, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > > On request / suggestion / whatever ;-) of Marco I created the following > > patch. Its origin: I was trying to build GRUB2 on a system where no > > (n)curses he

Re: EFI-dualbooting OSX and Linux on iMac with T7400-CPU

Thomas Schwinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 01:49:10PM +0100, Marco Gerards wrote: >> We need a real BTS soon. :-) > > You already have one and people are already using it, only the developers > aren't: , 191 bugs reported, > most

Re: AMD64 configure error

Thomas Schwinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi Thomas, > On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 02:03:58PM +0100, Marco Gerards wrote: >> James Lockie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > checking if start is defined by the compiler... no >> > checking if _start is defined by the compiler... no >> > configure: erro

Re: identifying module types

On Wednesday 13 December 2006 01:07, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > I guess I'm not clear on this. The modules must be enumerated in some > order, whether manually by the user or in a config file or by a script. > Wouldn't it be appropriate to require that this order be preserved? The problem is that t

Re: disk vs partition numbering

On Wednesday 13 December 2006 05:11, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > Since I'm used to Linux, which assigns disks letters rather than > numbers, I was unaware that other OSs like BSD number disks from 0. > Since that's the case, and neither 0 nor 1 will make sense to people > expecting "a", I'm OK with 0

Re: multiboot2: make multiboot header optional

On Wednesday 13 December 2006 05:18, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > I'm willing to go along with this, since I realized that only a tiny > number of people will need to use this flags (and that number does not > include me :). It seemed to work for GRUB Legacy, so I guess it can work > here too. Great.

Re: disk vs partition numbering

On Wednesday 13 December 2006 09:14, James Lockie wrote: > I take that back, software should work without having to read the > manual, grub legacy was NOT like that for me. Exactly. It is ideal that one can use software without reading a manual appropriately. The reality is different, but we shou

Re: disk vs partition numbering

On Wednesday 13 December 2006 09:59, adrian15 wrote: > For them their first hard disk (Who is going to have a zero-hard disk in > the real world. It has no sense) is C:, but you could name it 1. > And when they partition their hard disk they suppose that the first cut > it is the 1 not the 0. And

Re: grub2 accessibility: beeps

On Wednesday 13 December 2006 13:45, Marco Gerards wrote: > I am not offensive at all, why would I be? I am merely saying that > your reply is on a part of the email that I do not consider relevant, > while the relevant part is ignored, at least in your reply. I just > hope you will react on the

Re: EFI-dualbooting OSX and Linux on iMac with T7400-CPU

On Wednesday 13 December 2006 14:29, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > You already have one and people are already using it, only the developers > aren't: , 191 bugs reported, > most about GRUB legacy, I guess. Yes, it is a full of garbage. A public BTS into which

Re: Conditionally building `grub-emu'

On Wednesday 13 December 2006 14:31, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > > > On request / suggestion / whatever ;-) of Marco I created the following > > > patch. Its origin: I was trying to build GRUB2 on a system where no > > > (n)curses header files were installed (which configure even detected > > > corre

Re: Conditionally building `grub-emu'

On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 10:46:50PM +0100, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > Thanks. As I am quite lazy, I've added you to the members. Could you check it > in yourself? Thanks! I installed the following: #v+ 2006-12-13 Thomas Schwinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Makefile.in (enable_grub_emu): N