Re: update-grub2 patch

2007-05-04 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 11:44:14PM +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > On Thursday 03 May 2007 17:48, Robert Millan wrote: > > On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 03:31:16PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > > > You should avoid ! in test. Use else instead. > > > > > > Earlier when I read the portability document

Re: [PATCH] terminal is not set back to console

2007-05-04 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 11:46:16PM +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > On Thursday 03 May 2007 21:05, Robert Millan wrote: > > On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 08:50:11PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > > When using gfxterm, and booting a kernel in this mode, Linux won't be > > > able to print anything to th

Re: [PATCH] terminal is not set back to console

2007-05-04 Thread Marco Gerards
Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When using gfxterm, and booting a kernel in this mode, Linux won't be able to > print anything to the console. This patch fixes it so that terminal is set > back to normal console during deinitialisation. > > Tested and known to work, although I'm not 1

Re: GPT on PC/BIOS computers

2007-05-04 Thread Marco Gerards
Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here's a patch to enable GPT support for PC/BIOS systems. Need for GPT is > increasingly common due availability of > 2 TiB hard drives. > > Please let me know if everything is correct. > > Some testing would be welcome, too (but be careful, earlier ver

Re: GPT on PC/BIOS computers

2007-05-04 Thread Javier Rodríguez Sánchez
Hello, I have tried the patch and it works well, but I have one question. It's necessary to be a MBR partition scheme? because I need a MBR emulation from the GPT scheme to Grub2 loader works. If I only let the GPT scheme with the EFI protective partition on MBR, grub doesn't find any bootable d

Re: GPT on PC/BIOS computers

2007-05-04 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 10:32:00PM +0200, Javier Rodríguez Sánchez wrote: > Hello, I have tried the patch and it works well, but I have one question. > It's necessary to be a MBR partition scheme? because I need a MBR > emulation from the GPT scheme to Grub2 loader works. If I only let the GPT >

Re: [PATCH] terminal is not set back to console

2007-05-04 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 10:30:33AM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: > Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > When using gfxterm, and booting a kernel in this mode, Linux won't be able > > to > > print anything to the console. This patch fixes it so that terminal is set > > back to normal con

Re: GPT on PC/BIOS computers

2007-05-04 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 10:40:17AM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: > Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Here's a patch to enable GPT support for PC/BIOS systems. Need for GPT is > > increasingly common due availability of > 2 TiB hard drives. > > > > Please let me know if everything is c

Re: Bug#381150: still not able to handle partitionable arrays

2007-05-04 Thread Robert Millan
It seems there are problems with accessing software RAID in devices with pathnames like /dev/md_d0p1 On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 05:59:16PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > > grub2 1.95-2 still does not support partitionable arrays: > > [...] > > debian# grub-probe -v /boot > grub-probe: info: chan