[PATCH] memdisk plus lnxboot extension

2007-12-29 Thread Bean
Hi, This patch is based on robert's memdisk patch. I also modify lnxboot so that it can load the memdisk using initrd. Changes: 1, copy memdisk to grub_alloc'ed memory in grub_machine_init, so that it won't be corrupted. 2, code cleanup for lnxboot.S, now it doesn't contain code that uses 32-bit

grub-probe && statfs(2)

2007-12-29 Thread Francis Gendreau
Hello everyone, I'd like to know if someone here conceived using the statfs() system call in find_root_device() (or grub_guess_root_device()) instead of doing a linear look-up into the /dev directory. My concern here is, that on FreeBSD system using devfs or not, the approach employed by find_roo

Re: gfxterm / grub_virtual_screen_setcolorstate()

2007-12-29 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Robert Millan wrote: > On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 02:28:18AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: >> New patch. Corrects a minor mistake when filling the last colum in the >> menu. Also, it doesn't change the colors on gfxterm since some reasjustments >> were needed for that, and there's also a bug that make