Re: grub2 and Linux software RAID devices

2008-02-07 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 11:43:38PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > > Any objection if I check that in ? ChangeLog: > > Patch from Jeroen Dekkers. > * disk/raid.c (grub_raid_scan_device): Reset `grub_errno' on disk > failure, since succesfuly reading all array members might not be

Re: aout support almost working now

2008-02-07 Thread walt
On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 01:32 +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 04:26:15PM -0800, walt wrote: > > >diff --git a/kern/i386/loader.S b/kern/i386/loader.S > > >index 266f4ef..88f3045 100644 > > >--- a/kern/i386/loader.S > > >+++ b/kern/i386/loader.S > > >@@ -137,6 +137,7 @@ FUNCTION

Re: grub2 and Linux software RAID devices

2008-02-07 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Robert Millan: > Ah, I see. What remains puzzling is how do other people manage to boot from > /boot on LVM (we had reports about that). Ah, that's possibly what your request is about that I still have standing out. I don't think I've ever installed Debian using d-i, you've got much more uptime

[PATCH] Large image file support for grub-fstest

2008-02-07 Thread Christian Franke
The new command "grub-fstest" may not work for large image files or /dev/sdX devices on 32-bit platforms. Legacy C89 functions fseek() and ftell() always use "long" as offset type. The attached patch changes this to fseeko() and ftello() which use off_t. These are part of POSIX, so new ./confi

Re: [PATCH] Large image file support for grub-fstest

2008-02-07 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 10:05:56PM +0100, Christian Franke wrote: > The new command "grub-fstest" may not work for large image files or > /dev/sdX devices on 32-bit platforms. > > Legacy C89 functions fseek() and ftell() always use "long" as offset > type. The attached patch changes this to fsee

Re: grub2 and Linux software RAID devices

2008-02-07 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 09:35:32PM +0100, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Robert Millan: > > > Ah, I see. What remains puzzling is how do other people manage to boot from > > /boot on LVM (we had reports about that). > > Ah, that's possibly what your request is about that I still have > standing out.

Re: Testing Grub2 on EFI

2008-02-07 Thread Alexandre Boeglin
Le mer 06 fév 2008 à 09:01:36 +0530, G vijaya Bhaskar Muppana a écrit : > I am not using Mac Machine. I have created EFI environment in USB disk using > DUET, given in https://www.tianocore.org/ Hi, Could you provide more information, like how you built the grub image ? and the layout of your usb

[PATCH] tell the user why they are in rescue mode

2008-02-07 Thread Sam Morris
Here's a patch that explains to the user why they are being sent to rescue mode in cast normal mode fails. I've also corrected a grammatical error in the 'entering rescue mode' message. -- Sam Morris http://robots.org.uk/ PGP key id 1024D/5EA01078 3412 EA18 1277 354B 991B C869 B219 7FDB 5EA0 1

Re: [PATCH] tell the user why they are in rescue mode

2008-02-07 Thread Robert Millan
Hi Sam, On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 06:34:26PM +, Sam Morris wrote: > diff -ru grub2-1.96+20080203+orig/kern/main.c > grub2-1.96+20080203+sam/kern/main.c > --- grub2-1.96+20080203+orig/kern/main.c 2008-01-05 12:04:35.0 > + > +++ grub2-1.96+20080203+sam/kern/main.c 2008-02