Re: UUID-based boot (Re: [PATCH] Environment block support for grub2)

2008-06-07 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Robert Millan wrote: On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 01:22:23AM +0800, Bean wrote: On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 12:43 AM, Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sorry for the delay; it was quite a bit of work as I got hit by a number of bugs here and there :-) Considering that the problem was quite simila

Re: [PATCH] biosdisk / open_device() messing up offsets

2008-06-07 Thread Bean
On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> If not, then we'd have >> to figure out why sector 0 of the partition can be accessed directly via >> hexdump. > > As I understand, "(hd0,1)" doesn't refer to an extent of data,

Re: [PATCH] biosdisk / open_device() messing up offsets

2008-06-07 Thread Bean
On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 6:53 AM, Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It may be something else. It was an unclean reboot after a panic for > unrelated reasons, so the hanging problem may be an issue with ext3. > Anyway, extreme caution is required with the current code! btw, any chance your

Re: [PATCH] Reimplementing the legacy "map" command

2008-06-07 Thread Javier Martín
El vie, 06-06-2008 a las 19:31 +0300, Vesa Jääskeläinen escribió: > Did you forgot something from this patch :) ? Er... not that I know of. What do you mean? Did I leave something important off? If it's the licensing info, I put it under the same as the whole GRUB2 project, I suppose. The int13 han

Re: [PATCH] Reimplementing the legacy "map" command

2008-06-07 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Javier Martín wrote: El vie, 06-06-2008 a las 19:31 +0300, Vesa Jääskeläinen escribió: Did you forgot something from this patch :) ? Er... not that I know of. What do you mean? Did I leave something important off? If it's the licensing info, I put it under the same as the whole GRUB2 project, I

Re: [PATCH] Reimplementing the legacy "map" command

2008-06-07 Thread Javier Martín
El sáb, 07-06-2008 a las 18:02 +0300, Vesa Jääskeläinen escribió: > Javier Martín wrote: > > El vie, 06-06-2008 a las 19:31 +0300, Vesa Jääskeläinen escribió: > >> Did you forgot something from this patch :) ? > > Er... not that I know of. What do you mean? Did I leave something > > important off?

Can we get video card information in EFI environment ?

2008-06-07 Thread Bean
Hi, I encounter a small problem when writing the x86_64 EFI code. The loader does work, but I'm struggle to get the frame buffer to work. In order to do so, I need some information to fill in the linux header: 1. frame buffer address 2. frame buffer size 3. line buffer length Other information,

Re: [PATCH] ntfs UUIDs (Re: UUID-based boot (Re: [PATCH] Environment block support for grub2))

2008-06-07 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 07:44 +0200, Tomáš Ebenlendr wrote: > Dne 7 Červen 2008, 01:31, Robert Millan napsal(a): > > This patch adds the 64-bit serial number as UUID. But I'm not sure what > > is the "standard" method to stringify this number. Apparently, Windows > > only prints half of it in the d

Re: [PATCH] biosdisk / open_device() messing up offsets

2008-06-07 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 16:37 +0800, Bean wrote: > On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 6:53 AM, Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > It may be something else. It was an unclean reboot after a panic for > > unrelated reasons, so the hanging problem may be an issue with ext3. > > Anyway, extreme caution

Re: [PATCH] biosdisk / open_device() messing up offsets

2008-06-07 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 15:48 +0800, Bean wrote: > I believe the problem is with hexdump. It open the device with > grub_disk_open, which returns the disk object related to the beginning > of partition. However, it read it using disk->dev->read, which is a > low level api that use absolute address.

Re: [PATCH] biosdisk / open_device() messing up offsets

2008-06-07 Thread Bean
On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 15:48 +0800, Bean wrote: > >> I believe the problem is with hexdump. It open the device with >> grub_disk_open, which returns the disk object related to the beginning >> of partition. However, it read it

Re: [PATCH] biosdisk / open_device() messing up offsets

2008-06-07 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Sun, 2008-06-08 at 14:44 +0800, Bean wrote: > On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 15:48 +0800, Bean wrote: > > > >> I believe the problem is with hexdump. It open the device with > >> grub_disk_open, which returns the disk object rela