avoid firmware in grub-mkrescue (Re: moving ata initialisation to a command)

2007-12-26 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 05:01:42PM +0100, Marco Gerards wrote: > Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'd like to move ata.mod initialisation away from its _init routine and into > > a separate command. This way it isn't a nuissance when it gets included in > > monolithic builds (such

embedding data in ELF (Re: moving ata initialisation to a command)

2007-12-26 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 06:36:07PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > > I'd prefer to support embedding filesystems in core.img instead. This > solves the problem for every situation instead of just PC boot media > (e.g. LinuxBIOS ELF payload image). Btw, any ELF wizard around? I wonder if ELF has a

Re: Fwd: grub2: FTBFS on powerpc (__floatundisf in ls is not defined)

2007-12-26 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, Dec 25, 2007 at 08:21:50PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > On Tue, Dec 25, 2007 at 01:06:12PM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 25, 2007 at 11:52:47AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > > > Philipp, I'm attaching a patch for the __floatundisf. There might be > > > others, > > > though.

Re: Failed to build grub2

2007-12-26 Thread Bean
On Dec 26, 2007 3:17 PM, Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 25, 2007 at 07:37:04PM +0800, Bean wrote: > > > > I use the 32-bit address to save space, maybe your compiler doesn't > > support it. anyway, you can try the following transformation: > > > > leal 0x200 + data_start -

Some grub2 problems/questions

2007-12-26 Thread walt
Hi grub group. Beginning with the commits of 2007-10-31 my two Athlon machines won't work properly with grub2, and I'd like to find out why. The first machine has two ordinary PATA drives on a VIA 8235 controller and grub2 complains that the firmware is tainted. Grub2 will use (ata1) okay and l

Re: Failed to build grub2

2007-12-26 Thread Francis Gendreau
On Wed, 2007-12-26 at 08:15 +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > On Tue, Dec 25, 2007 at 06:23:13AM -0500, Francis Gendreau wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-12-25 at 12:07 +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 25, 2007 at 04:41:27AM -0500, Francis Gendreau wrote: > > > > GNU assembler 2.15 [Fre