Re: [PATCH] revert r1302

2008-09-25 Thread Robert Millan
Committed. On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 06:59:08PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > Hi, > > r1302 was a change I introduced to make device.map work on non-i386. However, > with time it appears that it wasn't really a good idea. The powerpc version > is fragile (see #465365 for an example of breakag

Re: grub2 summer code theme in debian?

2008-09-25 Thread J.Bakshi
On Wednesday 24 Sep 2008 8:57:21 pm Felix Zielcke wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 24.09.2008, 20:49 +0530 schrieb J.Bakshi: > > On Wednesday 24 Sep 2008 8:17:56 pm Marco Gerards wrote: > > > Patch things yourself. > > > > Thanks for your respons. > > Whare I can get this patch and how to apply the patch

[PATCH] treat multiple slashes like one for JFS

2008-09-25 Thread Felix Zielcke
Here's a patch to handle things like //boot/// for JFS which doestn't do it currently but Linux does it. This was already brought up 2004 but I wonder why this isn't included http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2004-08/msg00043.html Probable this can be right now commited but as always I

GRUB 1.96 on a USB floppy drive

2008-09-25 Thread Andy Goth
Hi, I have successfully installed GRUB 1.96 on a USB floppy drive. I used a Knoppix 5.1 bootable CD as my operating system. The floppy shows up as /dev/sdc, which causes GRUB and other programs to believe it to be a hard disk with partitions and such. That causes a number of problems. The fi