Re: ext4 support in grub2

2008-05-23 Thread Marco Gerards
Hi, Nijar, "Niraj kumar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just wanted to know if anybody is working on supporting ext4 or > are there any patches already? > > If there is nothing, maybe I can try something. ext4 support for GRUB 2 would be appreciated :-) Can we assume you are working on this? --

Re: ext4 support in grub2

2008-05-23 Thread Niraj kumar
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 1:08 PM, Marco Gerards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, Nijar, > > "Niraj kumar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Just wanted to know if anybody is working on supporting ext4 or >> are there any patches already? >> >> If there is nothing, maybe I can try something. > > ext4

Re: Higher resolution timers

2008-05-23 Thread Marco Gerards
Hi Colin, Colin D Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > To implement a nice GUI with some animations, it will be important to > have a timer with a better resolution than 1/18 second (which appears > to be the current GRUB timer resolution on the PC). Such patch will me more than welcome. We ac

Re: Higher resolution timers

2008-05-23 Thread Marco Gerards
Colin D Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 12 May 2008 09:33:54 -0700 > Colin D Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I think that using the TSC (w/ RDTSC instruction) and calibrating it >> with a quick 2-3 RTC tick loop at startup might be the easiest option. > > Just wondered if som

[RFC] Grub2 lock and password implementation

2008-05-23 Thread Julien Ranc
Some months ago, I started working on this part, but it didn't go far, and I abandonned it mainly because of a lack of time. I'd like to take some time to work on it again, this time until it (hopefully) gets accepted into Grub2. I'll try in this mail to describe how I propose to implement these 2

Re: Higher resolution timers

2008-05-23 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Fri, 23 May 2008 13:55:21 +0200 Marco Gerards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Colin D Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Mon, 12 May 2008 09:33:54 -0700 > > Colin D Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> I think that using the TSC (w/ RDTSC instruction) and calibrating > >> it with

Re: [RFC] Grub2 lock and password implementation

2008-05-23 Thread Michael Gorven
On Friday 23 May 2008 15:50:53 Julien Ranc wrote: > method handler that registered with this name. It could be, for > example "plain" for plain texts, "md5", "sha256", etc. I am currently implementing support for LUKS encrypted partitions in GRUB and have working SHA1, SHA256 and SHA512 modules.

Re: [RFC] Grub2 lock and password implementation

2008-05-23 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Julien Ranc wrote: What is needed / wanted ? First of all, I do not ask that you code following. They are just to test out flexibility of your proposal. So how would following scenarios work with your proposal? a) smartcard + ext pin There is smartcard reader on system with integrated keyp

Re: grub-probe gets a segfault

2008-05-23 Thread Isaac M. Marcos
El Thursday 22 May 2008 06:22:02 Pavel Roskin escribió: > On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 20:20 -0430, Isaac M. Marcos wrote: > > Today, I bump on this problem again on updating kernel. Because of this > > fault, update-initramfs reports a failure. It can't find "/". > > > > grub-probe -t device / -->