[PATCH] (ata.mod) avoid passing grub_errno to upper layer

2008-11-22 Thread Robert Millan
Hi, When an error is detected by ata.mod during drive scan, it will pass it to the upper layer. This results in GRUB aborting when trying to enter normal mode, even if the error is not critical (e.g. affects a drive not used during boot). There are a number of places in ata.mod where these erro

[PATCH] grub-install on coreboot

2008-11-22 Thread Robert Millan
Hi, This patch implements grub-install on coreboot. Since there's no pre-defined boot protocol on this platform, we simply generate a usable Multiboot image and dump it to /boot. User can afterwards load it to flash to make the board boot using this disk, or load it from elsewhere (even from a

Re: [RFC] Multi-terminal support (Re: [PATCH] terminal split)

2008-11-22 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Friday 07 November 2008 20:26:32 Robert Millan wrote: > On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 08:12:56PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > > - Turn the grub_cur_term_{input,output} pointers into lists, so that > > multiple terminals can be "current" at the same time. > > > > - Implement a "magic" input (o

Re: [OT] made a blog post about grub 1.96+20080724

2008-11-22 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Thursday 20 November 2008 17:20:42 Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 18:40 +0530, shirish wrote: > > Hi all, > > Made it to the level I could understand > > > > http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2008/11/19/jaunty-and-grub2/#more-2 > >69 > > > > There are 2 issues though which I ho

Re: [RFC] Multi-terminal support (Re: [PATCH] terminal split)

2008-11-22 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 06:42:54PM +0100, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > > However, whenever you want to do more than that, you must control each > terminal differently. In particular, the menu code. The menu interface may > not be uniform with all terminals. A terminal might have the size 80x25.

[PATCH] Corrections to affs and sfs

2008-11-22 Thread Krzysztof Smiechowicz
Hello, I would like to submit the following patch: * fs/affs.c: Return failure when directory iteration failed. * fs/sfs.c: Return failure when directory iteration failed. Correct order in which btree nodes are read. These changes are needed to boot AROS Research Operating System from SFS / FF

Re: [PATCH] default terminals on i386-pc / i386-ieee1275

2008-11-22 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 07:42:39PM +0200, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: > Robert Millan wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I think it would be good to make at_keyboard the default input terminal on > > i386-ieee1275, after the kernel has loaded (via grub-mkconfig). The AT > > keyboard is the only choice on OLPC a

Re: grub.elf? As in "How do I create that?"

2008-11-22 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 08:05:24PM -0500, Gregg Levine wrote: > > Hello! > You did reply on the coreboot list, however I am still working out how > to build the grub.elf kernel. > > First I need to know how to translate the kernel.img file into > kernel.elf since there is a kernel.img file but no

Re: the order of the modules when create core image

2008-11-22 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 03:22:19PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, all, > I don't know which mail list should I send this question to, so I send to > here. Hope somebody will help me. > I create a MD raid0 in my VirtualBox that has two virtual disks (I create the > Virtual PC according to m

Re: [PATCH] Grub2 running address on PowerPC64

2008-11-22 Thread Robert Millan
Committed, thanks! On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 05:02:33PM -0200, Manoel wrote: > OF uses the address 0x4000 as base-load (as stated in NOTE section added > by grub-mkelfimage) and grub uses 0x1 as running address, thus > causing segment overlapping which leads to grub2 unable to load its > module

Re: grub.elf? As in "How do I create that?"

2008-11-22 Thread Gregg Levine
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 08:05:24PM -0500, Gregg Levine wrote: >> >> Hello! >> You did reply on the coreboot list, however I am still working out how >> to build the grub.elf kernel. >> >> First I need to know how to transla