On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 10:42:23PM +0200, Christian Franke wrote:
> +
> + /* Check signature. */
> + if (!(buf[0x1fe] == 0x55 && buf[0x1ff] == 0xaa))
> +return ~0;
> +
> + /* Serial number offset depends on boot sector type. */
> + if (mbr)
> +n = 0x1b8;
> + else if (memcmp (buf + 0x
On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 01:39:47AM +0800, Bean wrote:
>
> Yes, UUID can be useful, it's better to add it to grub2.
>
> UUID itself is quite easy to get, but the question is how to integrate
> it with the existing disk layer. I'm thinking of the following three
> implementation:
>
> 1, Add a func
On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 10:07:41PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> It doesn't seem to be needed for my simplistic test of installing the
> grub-pc .deb and running "install-grub /dev/xvda":
> # dpkg -l grub-pc
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> |
> Status=Not/Inst/C
On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 04:35:35AM +0800, Bean wrote:
> On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 3:47 AM, Peter Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > refit is just an interface and not an "bootloader", it need always
> > grub/lilo (legcay-bios) or elilo (efi) as far as i know
>
> I mean you should use refit + grub/
On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 06:15:27PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 11:53 -0430, Isaac M. Marcos wrote:
>
> > Does:
> > # grub-probe -t device /
> > involve anything Debian specific
>
> It was a generic recommendation. But if grub-probe was compiled by
> Debian, it's
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 04:35:35AM +0800, Bean wrote:
>> On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 3:47 AM, Peter Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > refit is just an interface and not an "bootloader", it need always
>> > grub/lilo (legcay-
El Friday 09 May 2008 08:32:01 Robert Millan escribió:
> On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 06:15:27PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 11:53 -0430, Isaac M. Marcos wrote:
> > > Does:
> > > # grub-probe -t device /
> > > involve anything Debian specific
> >
> > It was a generic re
Robert Millan wrote:
On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 10:42:23PM +0200, Christian Franke wrote:
+
+ /* Check signature. */
+ if (!(buf[0x1fe] == 0x55 && buf[0x1ff] == 0xaa))
+return ~0;
+
+ /* Serial number offset depends on boot sector type. */
+ if (mbr)
+n = 0x1b8;
+ else if (memcmp
On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 12:13 -0430, Isaac M. Marcos wrote:
> > Neither could I :-(
>
> It does not happen in other two AMD64 machines here!!
> Only on this one.
That confirms my suspicion that the problem is not related to any x86_64
issues.
I checked the bug history more carefully, and I think
