Re: testing a loopback device without filesystem causes a crash

2009-09-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 07:58:56PM +0100, ago wrote: > On fezie's request I am reporting a possible bug that I experienced > when running the following: > > loopback loop0 /path/to/myfile > if [ -e (loop0)/some/file ]; then > echo ok > fi > > If /path/to/myfile does not contain a filesystem, gru

Re: [GITGRUB] New menu interface (second draft)

2009-09-14 Thread Michal Suchanek
2009/9/14 Bean : >Hi, > >Thanks a lot for your advice, most of them looks good, although some >details may need adjustment. Thank you for working on the new menu system. Of course, this discussion is here to select the best ways to implement the menu we can think of and refine them so that we can

[PATCH] Cope with Windows 7 in os-prober output

2009-09-14 Thread Colin Watson
I recently fixed https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/os-prober/+bug/393565 in os-prober svn. GRUB needs this patch to handle the new output correctly. 2009-09-14 Colin Watson * util/grub.d/30_os-prober.in: Cope with Windows 7 in os-prober output. Index: util/grub.d/30_os

Re: [PATCH] Cope with Windows 7 in os-prober output

2009-09-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 12:27:06PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > I recently fixed > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/os-prober/+bug/393565 in > os-prober svn. GRUB needs this patch to handle the new output correctly. Felix OKed this on #debian-boot so I went ahead and committed. -- Colin

Re: [GITGRUB] New menu interface (second draft)

2009-09-14 Thread Bean
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Michal Suchanek wrote: > 2009/9/14 Bean : >>Hi, >> >>Thanks a lot for your advice, most of them looks good, although some >>details may need adjustment. > > Thank you for working on the new menu system. > > Of course, this discussion is here to select the best ways

Re: About firmware facilities

2009-09-14 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 01:54:33PM -0700, Seth Goldberg wrote: > > > Quoting Robert Millan, who wrote the following on Sat, 12 Sep 2009: > >> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 02:07:10PM -0700, Seth Goldberg wrote: >>> >>> I strongly disagree with you in this specific case. Our experience in >>> Solaris h

my availability

2009-09-14 Thread Robert Millan
Hi, My vacation just finished, and I'll have less time from now on. But don't panic ;-) I will continue to check the list and respond to issues that require maintainer attention. I'll try to do that at least once per week (perhaps more but I can't make a promise). I understand the other maint

Re: [PATCH] Fix 'acpi' command loading tables from disk

2009-09-14 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 03:22:41AM +0200, xose wrote: > On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 2:27 AM, Robert Millan wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 02:21:14PM +0200, xose wrote: > >> The 'acpi' command currently fails to add ACPI tables loaded from > >> disk. The files are read and parsed correctly, but the

Re: [PATCH]: Save boot record before writing to the dest_drive

2009-09-14 Thread kashyap garimella
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Robert Millan wrote: > On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 07:35:45PM +0530, kashyap garimella wrote: > > Greetings! > > > > I have added the following new features: > > > > 1) when grub-setup runs, it automatically stores the areas of (mbr + > embed) > > region, which are ov

Re: testing a loopback device without filesystem causes a crash

2009-09-14 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 09:45:42AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 07:58:56PM +0100, ago wrote: > > On fezie's request I am reporting a possible bug that I experienced > > when running the following: > > > > loopback loop0 /path/to/myfile > > if [ -e (loop0)/some/file ]; then

Re: [PATCH]: Save boot record before writing to the dest_drive

2009-09-14 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 07:35:45PM +0530, kashyap garimella wrote: > Greetings! > > I have added the following new features: > > 1) when grub-setup runs, it automatically stores the areas of (mbr + embed) > region, which are overwritten, into the file (in the following specified > format) in root

Re: [GITGRUB] New menu interface (second draft)

2009-09-14 Thread Michal Suchanek
2009/9/14 Bean : > On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Michal Suchanek wrote: >> 2009/9/14 Bean : >>> >>> About edit boxes, I'd prefer to use a command like popup to open a new >>> window, perhaps something like: >>> >>> popup "+ term { class=gfxterm }" >>> >>> Then we can bind it to specific keys u

Re: About firmware facilities

2009-09-14 Thread Brendan Trotter
Hi, On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 1:02 AM, Robert Millan wrote: > Well, you have the freedom to disagree with anything we do and bring your > customized GRUB to a different direction :-) > > Anyhow, my priority for GRUB is strong driver-based support. We could recruit > someone to develop the framewor

Re: About firmware facilities

2009-09-14 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 04:27 +0930, Brendan Trotter wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 1:02 AM, Robert Millan wrote: > > Well, you have the freedom to disagree with anything we do and bring your > > customized GRUB to a different direction :-) > > > > Anyhow, my priority for GRUB is strong d

Re: About firmware facilities

2009-09-14 Thread Brendan Trotter
Hi, On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 4:41 AM, Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 04:27 +0930, Brendan Trotter wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 1:02 AM, Robert Millan wrote: >> > Well, you have the freedom to disagree with anything we do and bring your >> > customized GRUB to a differe

Re: About firmware facilities

2009-09-14 Thread Michal Suchanek
2009/9/14 Brendan Trotter : > Hi, > > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 4:41 AM, Pavel Roskin wrote: >> On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 04:27 +0930, Brendan Trotter wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 1:02 AM, Robert Millan wrote: >>> > Well, you have the freedom to disagree with anything we do and bring

Re: About firmware facilities

2009-09-14 Thread Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Brendan Trotter wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 4:41 AM, Pavel Roskin wrote: >> On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 04:27 +0930, Brendan Trotter wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 1:02 AM, Robert Millan wrote: >>> > Well, you have the freedom to disagree

Re: About firmware facilities

2009-09-14 Thread Brendan Trotter
Hi, On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 6:19 AM, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Brendan Trotter wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 4:41 AM, Pavel Roskin wrote: >>> On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 04:27 +0930, Brendan Trotter wrote: >>> We are already doing it. There is funct

Re: About firmware facilities

2009-09-14 Thread Colin Watson
I don't have relevant experience regarding multiboot in general, but ... On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 08:53:12AM +0930, Brendan Trotter wrote: > The same would apply to internationalization - GRUB should tell the OS > which language/locale it used, so that the OS can automatically use > the same langua

Re: About firmware facilities

2009-09-14 Thread Brendan Trotter
Hi, On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Colin Watson wrote: > I don't have relevant experience regarding multiboot in general, but ... > > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 08:53:12AM +0930, Brendan Trotter wrote: >> The same would apply to internationalization - GRUB should tell the OS >> which language/loca

Re: About firmware facilities

2009-09-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 09:26:55AM +0930, Brendan Trotter wrote: > An OS could choose to use the information provided by GRUB, or choose > to ignore the information provided by GRUB. Sure, but the less code that needs to go in the boot loader the better. > Assuming GRUB implements something that

Re: About firmware facilities

2009-09-14 Thread Brendan Trotter
Hi, On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 09:26:55AM +0930, Brendan Trotter wrote: >> An OS could choose to use the information provided by GRUB, or choose >> to ignore the information provided by GRUB. > > Sure, but the less code that needs to go in the b

Re: [GITGRUB] New menu interface (second draft)

2009-09-14 Thread Bean
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 2:14 AM, Michal Suchanek wrote: > 2009/9/14 Bean : >> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Michal Suchanek wrote: >>> 2009/9/14 Bean : > About edit boxes, I'd prefer to use a command like popup to open a new window, perhaps something like: popup "+ ter

[PATCH] Build info documentation

2009-09-14 Thread Colin Watson
I'm not quite sure I've got everything right here, so please review. It seemed much simpler to add everything to Makefile.in than to go through conf/*.rmk for this, as there's no platform-specific work to be done here. 2009-09-15 Colin Watson Build info documentation. Some code borro