new patch

2007-05-15 Thread Robert Millan
New patch. Fixed a few errors, enabled grub-install in sbin_SCRIPTS, and made the CLI consistent with the other grub-installs. The patch works in my qemu environment [1], so I've added it in Debian already. If nobody objects, or reports that the patch is wrong whatsoever, I'll add it to CVS in a

Re: [PATCH] grub-install for EFI

2007-05-15 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Friday 11 May 2007 18:03, Robert Millan wrote: > Please have a look at this patch that adds grub-install for EFI and tell me > what you think. I have some doubts/comments myself, and I'll reply to my > own message to use the patch context. In my opinion, grub-install is not very useful without

Re: [PATCH] grub-install for EFI

2007-05-15 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Friday 11 May 2007 18:11, Robert Millan wrote: > grub-probe is needed to check partmap (so we don't have to assume gpt). Yes. > grub-mkdevicemap is needed to create device.map, without which grub-probe > won't work. Right. > Note: this grub-install.in is based on the i386/pc version. I trie

Re: [PATCH] grub-install for EFI

2007-05-15 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Friday 11 May 2007 18:21, Robert Millan wrote: > On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 06:11:34PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > One thing that I'm not sure about is the CLI inconsistency. Perhaps it > > shouldn't take the directory as a standalone parameter, and instead use > > --root-directory? > > Or per

Re: gfxterm and vesa

2007-05-15 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Sunday 13 May 2007 01:00, Robert Millan wrote: > Which do you think should be the default (at least in the short term)? 640x480 or 640x400. 800x600 is broadly supported nowadays, but 640x4?0 is still safer. Okuji ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-d

ls and xfs = unhandled exception / reset

2007-05-15 Thread Alex Roman
Hello, I've got a linux system with the / partition as xfs (and no /boot partition, blame kUbuntu's installer for that :)). I wanted to try to boot the system from a grub2 floppy I made (so I can still boot my system, no worries). I do: insmod ls insmod pc insmod xfs Then if I do: ls (hd0,1) --

Re: [PATCH] grub-install for EFI

2007-05-15 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 10:22:06PM +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > > Or perhaps it should do like powerpc and check that /boot/grub is a mount > > point? > > > > # Find the partition at the right mount point. > > install_device=`awk '$2 == '"\"$grubdir\""' { print $1 }' < /proc/mounts` > > if te

Re: [PATCH] grub-install for EFI

2007-05-15 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 10:16:11PM +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > On Friday 11 May 2007 18:03, Robert Millan wrote: > > Please have a look at this patch that adds grub-install for EFI and tell me > > what you think. I have some doubts/comments myself, and I'll reply to my > > own message to us

Re: [PATCH] grub-install for EFI

2007-05-15 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 10:20:41PM +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > > > > One thing that I'm not sure about is the CLI inconsistency. Perhaps it > > shouldn't take the directory as a standalone parameter, and instead use > > --root-directory? > > Consistency is important, but it is not a must,

Re: ls and xfs = unhandled exception / reset

2007-05-15 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 08:47:03PM -0400, Alex Roman wrote: > Hello, > > I've got a linux system with the / partition as xfs (and no /boot > partition, blame kUbuntu's installer for that :)). I wanted to try to > boot the system from a grub2 floppy I made (so I can still boot my > system, no worri