[PATCH] Fixed ieee1275 console

2007-10-01 Thread Marcin Kurek
Hell[o] Finaly I found a few free minutes to look at ofconsole as it never correctly work for me. There was 3 problems on my Pegasos: 1) Backspace key not works with USB keyboard. 2) menu looks ugly like hell as it contains some random characters in place of borders. 3) Console works wrong (the c

Re: [PATCH] Fixed ieee1275 console

2007-10-01 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 12:57:35PM +0200, Marcin Kurek wrote: > 2) menu looks ugly like hell as it contains some random characters in > place of borders. I have a few concerns about this part: > static void > grub_ofconsole_putchar (grub_uint32_t c) > { > - char chr = c; > - if (c == '\n') >

Re: [PATCH] Fixed ieee1275 console

2007-10-01 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 12:57:35PM +0200, Marcin Kurek wrote: > Hell[o] > > Finaly I found a few free minutes to look at ofconsole as it never > correctly work for me. There was 3 problems on my Pegasos: > > 1) Backspace key not works with USB keyboard. > 2) menu looks ugly like hell as it contai

Re: [PATCH] generic ELF version of grub-mkimage

2007-10-01 Thread Robert Millan
Hi! On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 12:03:47PM +0200, Patrick Georgi wrote: > Hi, > > the attached patch makes powerpc-ieee1275's grub-mkimage work with > little endian ELF images, too. > I did this, as I need basically the same functionality for > i386-linuxbios, just with little endian ELFs. I first

Grub and GPT support

2007-10-01 Thread Jeffrey Lensen
Hello all, I was wondering if someone could provide me with some information about GPT support in Grub. I realize this isn't implemented yet, and that there is a patch out there that's supposed to fix this isssue, but I'm curious to find out if there is any progress in building support for GPT in

Re: Grub and GPT support

2007-10-01 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 05:34:38PM +0200, Jeffrey Lensen wrote: > Hello all, > > I was wondering if someone could provide me with some information about > GPT support in Grub. I realize this isn't implemented yet, and that > there is a patch out there that's supposed to fix this isssue, but I'm >

Re: [PATCH] Fixed ieee1275 console

2007-10-01 Thread Marcin Kurek
Hell[o] > [...] OK, split fixes in to separate patches this time as requested. 01-grub2-simple_console.patch == This is a idea how to handle ascii&&cp473&&utf based menus for diffrent consoles. I added a two term flags GRUB_TERM_SIMPLE_MENU (ascii menu) and GRUB_TERM_CP4

Re: [PATCH] fix memory management on efika/pegasos

2007-10-01 Thread Marcin Kurek
Hell[o] > Finally, I think I got this right now. My efika boots and all the other > setups should be happy as well. Please, review/test this and report. Tested on ODW && Efika, works fine in both cases. -- --- Marcin 'Morgoth' Kurek --- ___ Grub-d

Re: [PATCH] Fixed ieee1275 console

2007-10-01 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 08:14:16PM +0200, Marcin Kurek wrote: > diff -urN grub2.org/include/grub/term.h grub2/include/grub/term.h > --- grub2.org/include/grub/term.h 2007-07-22 01:32:22.0 +0200 > +++ grub2/include/grub/term.h 2007-10-01 19:20:49.734330521 +0200 > @@ -51,10 +51,13 @@ >

Re: [PATCH] Fixed ieee1275 console

2007-10-01 Thread Marcin Kurek
Hell[o] > Is this a bitmask? In this case, looks like you aren't using the right > numbers. Now GRUB_TERM_SIMPLE_MENU == GRUB_TERM_DUMB | GRUB_TERM_NO_EDIT > OTOH if that's what you intended, I think it's better to build one macro > using the others. Eeeek, why ? The flags are checked using 'fl

Re: pxebooting with GRUB 2

2007-10-01 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Sun 2007-09-30 12:07:38 -0400, Robert Millan wrote: > WIP. Check latest mails from Marco on the subject. He sent patches > implementing ethernet infrastructure and requested feedback. Ah, thanks. Are you referring to this, from two months ago? http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/

Re: [PATCH] fix memory management on efika/pegasos

2007-10-01 Thread Marcin Kurek
Hell[o] > [...] I just checked cvs grub2 with this patch on older version of pegasos firmware (1.2 - 20040810) and it seems to fail with out of memory message. Then it seems to fix problem for efika and for latest version of pegasos firmware. -- --- Marcin 'Morgoth' Kurek --- ___

a FAQ that probably isn't that trivial to answer ...

2007-10-01 Thread Udo Rader
Hi, for various reasons I decided to give grub2 a try and now I am caught in the "my system doesn't boot" trap. The problem is probably a bit more complex then it seems at first hand, because my system doesn't even start into grub at all but "freezes" somewhere between hard disk detection and sta