Re: [RFC]swapfso and "ioctl" function for filesystems

On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 11:27:20PM +0200, phcoder wrote: > > > > Could this be made more transparent? For example, with a variable. > > > Here perhaps it could be. But in other usage cases like putting the dos > boot files into the right place or doing swapfso it couldn't. We intentionally don'

Re: [RFC] Boot parameters and geometrical stability

On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 11:40:32PM +0200, phcoder wrote: > Robert Millan wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 08:49:14PM +0300, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: > >> Possibilites are there, but basically they are limited to something like: > >> > >> (ata0) (pci-X-Y-Z:ata0) (usb-X-Y:scsi0) (pci-X-Y-Z:scsi0) >

Re: [RFC] Boot parameters and geometrical stability

On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 11:37:43PM +0200, phcoder wrote: > Robert Millan wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 02:31:10PM +0200, phcoder wrote: > >>> I assume you talk about GRUB loading itself; what kind of information > >>> would > >>> you pass from one GRUB to the other? > >> Boot device, > > >

Re: Multiple partition maps

On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 11:49:21PM +0200, phcoder wrote: > Robert Millan wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 08:08:50PM +0200, phcoder wrote: > >> Hello. I was looking at the grub code and seen that if a disk has > >> multiple partition tables (e.g. macintel with bootcamp) then only first > >> one w

[PATCH] Move cpuid.mod to conf/i386.rmk (Re: RFC: conf/i386.rmk)

On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 05:08:29PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 22:07 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 12:49:46PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > > > On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 09:58 +0300, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: > > > > > > > > I tried moving more stuff to c

Re: When the 'Fancy Menu' branch will be availble on the main thread?

y.volta wrote: > hi, all: > > Collin has submit the 'Fancy Menu', when it will be available on the main > svn thread? When it gets reviewed and merged. I have been slowly adapting some of the patches to my local devel tree so they can get committed. However I need to make sure they are arch

Re: [PATCH] Case insensitive filename for NTFS

On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 8:47 PM, Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 03:07:21AM +0800, Bean wrote: >> Hi, >> >> This patch allow case insensitive filename in Win32 and DOS namespace. >> Names in POSIX namespace would still be case sensitive. It also remove >> names in

[PATCH] Move kern/loader.c to boot.mod and add preboot_support (was Re: Sendkey patch)

Hello. As I said in another email there is no need for it. I send a patch for it. Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko Javier Martín wrote: > El mié, 03-09-2008 a las 20:53 +0300, Vesa Jääskeläinen escribió: >> phcoder wrote: >>> Hello. In this case we can transfer the whole functionality located in >>> k

Re: [PATCH] Move kern/loader.c to boot.mod and add preboot_support (was Re: Sendkey patch)

El vie, 05-09-2008 a las 18:13 +0200, phcoder escribió: > Hello. As I said in another email there is no need for it. I send a > patch for it. Well, I won't deny the patch is clever and looks good (I haven't tested it yet). However, taking the generic "boot" command out of kernel and leaving the sev

Re: [PATCH] Warning if grub.cfg not found

Hi, On Aug/30/2008, Robert Millan wrote: > > Hi > > On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 04:43:14PM +0200, Carles Pina i Estany wrote: > > Index: normal/cmdline.c > > === > > --- normal/cmdline.c(revision 1826) > > +++ normal/cmdline.c

Re: [PATCH] Correcting GRUB_CONSOLE_KEY_NPAGE/PPAGE

Hi, On Aug/30/2008, Robert Millan wrote: > On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 04:29:44PM +0200, Carles Pina i Estany wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I was just thinking now... > > > > On Aug/24/2008, Carles Pina i Estany wrote: > > > > > * include/grub/powerpc/ieee1275/console.h (GRUB_TERM_NPAGE): > > >

Re: [PATCH] iso9660 UUID support by using the creation date/time

Am Sonntag, den 31.08.2008, 20:55 +0200 schrieb Felix Zielcke: > Args, I'm blind :( > I copied the function from fs/ntfs.c and there it says `grub_malloc 16 + > sizeof (\0)' > With "" it's useless so .5 attached so it doestn't get lost :) Bean did only the joliet support and he already said it l

[RFC] general-usage real-mode loader

Hello. A long time ago I written a C+asm code which loads any given code at any real-mode location, then puts machine in correct state and then launches the kernel. I can modify this code to suit GRUB2. Then loading realmode kernel would work like this: 1) copy helper asm to last kb of lower memory

Re: [RFC] general-usage real-mode loader

BTW. This helper would allow easy addition of many different kernels (freedos, haiku, ntldr, ...) Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko phcoder wrote: > Hello. A long time ago I written a C+asm code which loads any given code > at any real-mode location, then puts machine in correct state and then > launch