Re: grub-0.97: btrfs multidevice support [PATCH]

2009-09-27 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 11:29:11AM +0800, Peng Tao wrote: > > > > It would be great if somebody could take up Edward's work and port it to > > GRUB 2. If nobody else does then I'd be interested in doing so myself, > > although I will not be able to start for a month or two from now. > Is there any

Re: Resignation

2009-09-27 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 11:44:53PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > Hello! > > I have very little time for GNU GRUB, and I don't want to exercise any > authority in the project without being able to track the mailing list > and participate in the discussions. > > I would like to resign as comaintaine

Re: grub-0.97: btrfs multidevice support [PATCH]

2009-09-27 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 08:38:10AM +1000, Bron Gondwana wrote: > > Edward - please do continue to develop patches for GRUB 1 (the one that > still actually works plenty well enough for lots of people) and ignore the > naysayers who are happy to throw out backwards compatibility. > > Sometimes you

Re: Macbook, Efi, Display mode

2009-09-27 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Samstag, den 26.09.2009, 22:48 +0200 schrieb Stefan Bienert: > And another "Hi", > > update: Using '--file' in the search did the trick! I really start > loving Grub2: Really faster booting, seems to be easy to configure... > > 2 days of booting with grub2 in EFI mode and still happy... >

Re: Macbook, Efi, Display mode

2009-09-27 Thread Stefan Bienert
Where do I get it from? >>> grub-probe -t fs_uuid / >>> or grub-probe -t fs_uuid -d /dev/sda1 >>> How do I incorporate this into grub.cg? >>> search --set --fs-uuid abc-123... >> Just for the sake of completion: abc-123.../path/to/kernel? > No. If you use --fs-uuid instead of --fi

Re: Macbook, Efi, Display mode

2009-09-27 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Sonntag, den 27.09.2009, 13:11 +0200 schrieb Stefan Bienert: > Where do I get it from? > >>> grub-probe -t fs_uuid / > >>> or grub-probe -t fs_uuid -d /dev/sda1 > >>> > How do I incorporate this into > grub.cg? > >>> search --set --fs-uuid abc-123... > >> Just for the sake of co

Re: Protection of boot sector and embedded area

2009-09-27 Thread Michal Suchanek
2009/9/27 James Courtier-Dutton : > 2009/9/26 Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko : >> James Courtier-Dutton wrote: >>> 2009/9/26 Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko : >>> It's generally a bad idea to chase grub out of MBR+embed area. It often results in unreliable configurations. Could you detail yo

Re: Macbook, Efi, Display mode

2009-09-27 Thread Stefan Bienert
>> - The menu is rather small, is it possible to expand the display to >> 1280x800? >> >> - Since I own a Macbook, I want my boot manager nice and shiny. How do I >> set the looks? E.g. Background image? Couldn't find helpful info in the >> manual-draft. > > If you use my repo, you can enable grap

Re: Macbook, Efi, Display mode

2009-09-27 Thread Michal Suchanek
2009/9/27 Stefan Bienert : >>> - The menu is rather small, is it possible to expand the display to >>> 1280x800? >>> >>> - Since I own a Macbook, I want my boot manager nice and shiny. How do I >>> set the looks? E.g. Background image? Couldn't find helpful info in the >>> manual-draft. >> >> If yo

Re: Protection of boot sector and embedded area

2009-09-27 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
2009/9/27 Michal Suchanek : > > Obviously your encryption solution does not encrypt the linux volume > which you boot using the USB stick so it has no reason to be loaded > when loading Linux, it can only cause harm by trying to decrypt what > is not encrypted. You make a assumption that the encryp

Re: Protection of boot sector and embedded area

2009-09-27 Thread Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > 2009/9/27 Michal Suchanek : > >> Obviously your encryption solution does not encrypt the linux volume >> which you boot using the USB stick so it has no reason to be loaded >> when loading Linux, it can only cause harm by trying to decrypt what >> is not encrypted.

Re: Macbook, Efi, Display mode

2009-09-27 Thread Stefan Bienert
Michal Suchanek wrote: > 2009/9/27 Stefan Bienert : - The menu is rather small, is it possible to expand the display to 1280x800? - Since I own a Macbook, I want my boot manager nice and shiny. How do I set the looks? E.g. Background image? Couldn't find helpful info in the

Re: Current Grub2 & problem with /boot on different drive

2009-09-27 Thread Dean Loros
I have looked as far as I can via Google to try to get into a terminal similar to how things were done in grub. There is little to no information available--I was very fluent in how to do things with grub--I am at a loss as to achieve this in grub2. On 09/25/2009 12:36 PM, Dean Loros wrote: > Hi

Re: Current Grub2 & problem with /boot on different drive

2009-09-27 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Sonntag, den 27.09.2009, 07:53 -0700 schrieb Dean Loros: > I have looked as far as I can via Google to try to get into a terminal > similar to how things were done in grub. There is little to no > information available--I was very fluent in how to do things with > grub--I am at a loss as to achi

Re: Macbook, Efi, Display mode

2009-09-27 Thread Bean
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Stefan Bienert wrote: > For me, the screen freezes, so graphics seem not to be cleared. > >> I could perhaps try the efi graphics driver on some iMacs later >> this/next week (depending on the location where you are reading this). > > That would be nice. I use Bean

Re: Macbook, Efi, Display mode

2009-09-27 Thread Stefan Bienert
Bean wrote: > On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Stefan Bienert > wrote: >> For me, the screen freezes, so graphics seem not to be cleared. >> >>> I could perhaps try the efi graphics driver on some iMacs later >>> this/next week (depending on the location where you are reading this). >> That would

Re: [GITGRUB] New menu interface (implementation)

2009-09-27 Thread Michal Suchanek
Hello 2009/9/25 Bean : > Hi, > > Update: > > Some adjustment to data representation. For example: > > background = "/splash.png" > > means loads splash.png, no extra handling if loading fails (text mode > or file not found) > > background = "/splash.png,,blue" > > means loads splash.png, if it fai

Re: Macbook, Efi, Display mode

2009-09-27 Thread Michal Suchanek
2009/9/27 Stefan Bienert : > Bean wrote: >> On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Stefan Bienert >> wrote: >>> For me, the screen freezes, so graphics seem not to be cleared. >>> I could perhaps try the efi graphics driver on some iMacs later this/next week (depending on the location where yo

Re: Macbook, Efi, Display mode

2009-09-27 Thread Stefan Bienert
Michal Suchanek wrote: > 2009/9/27 Stefan Bienert : >> Bean wrote: >>> On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Stefan Bienert >>> wrote: For me, the screen freezes, so graphics seem not to be cleared. > I could perhaps try the efi graphics driver on some iMacs later > this/next week (de

Support for howmany option in grub2

2009-09-27 Thread jezz
Hello, I am using Debian GNU/Linux as my primary system. As a loader I am using GRUB. Actually I have upgraded to GRUB2. I don't know, if it was feature of original (legacy) GRUB or it was functionality provided by debian scripts (update-grub), for generating menu.lst. There was feature - howmany.

Re: [GITGRUB] New menu interface (implementation)

2009-09-27 Thread Bean
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 12:12 AM, Michal Suchanek wrote: >> Add new number format to specify size for both graphic and text mode: >> >> space = 10/0 > > I would prefer if the spacing would not need to be specified > separately for text mode and graphics mode. > > I hope I can get to creating some

Re: Macbook, Efi, Display mode

2009-09-27 Thread Bean
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 11:44 PM, Stefan Bienert wrote: > Bean wrote: >> On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Stefan Bienert >> wrote: >>> For me, the screen freezes, so graphics seem not to be cleared. >>> I could perhaps try the efi graphics driver on some iMacs later this/next week (depe

Re: Macbook, Efi, Display mode

2009-09-27 Thread Stefan Bienert
>> OUTPUT-Start >> Rom image present. >> [Linux-bzimage, setup=0x2c00, size=0x2784a0] >> Video mode: 1280x800-32 >> Frame buffer base: 0x8001 >> Video line length: 8192 >> OUTPUT-End >> >> I hope this is the requested info. Do provide other stuff, I probably >> need a detailed instruction.

Re: Grub-devel Digest, Vol 67, Issue 84

2009-09-27 Thread Dean Loros
> (hd0)/dev/sda >> > (hd1)/dev/sdb >> > (hd2)/dev/sdc >> > (hd3)/dev/sdd >> > d...@linux:~/Desktop$ grub-install -v >> > grub-install (GNU GRUB 1.97~beta3) >> > >> > Is there anything els

Re: [GITGRUB] New menu interface (implementation)

2009-09-27 Thread Michal Suchanek
Hello 2009/9/27 Bean : > On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 12:12 AM, Michal Suchanek wrote: >>> Add new number format to specify size for both graphic and text mode: >>> >>> space = 10/0 >> >> I would prefer if the spacing would not need to be specified >> separately for text mode and graphics mode. >> >>

Re: [GITGRUB] New menu interface (implementation)

2009-09-27 Thread Michal Suchanek
Hello I tried looking at the overflow but i seriously have no idea what are all these regions the gfx_region_update_* gets. There is some scn_x and scn_y but these do not seem to be the screen coordinates of the region. If I could tell for what region I am doing the update (that is the x,y,width

Re: Current Grub2 & problem with /boot on different drive

2009-09-27 Thread Dean Loros
ript `grub-install'. >> >> > >> >> > (hd0)/dev/sda >> >> > (hd1)/dev/sdb >> >> > (hd2)/dev/sdc >> >> > (hd3) /dev/sdd >> >> &

Re: grub-0.97: btrfs multidevice support [PATCH]

2009-09-27 Thread Peng Tao
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Robert Millan wrote: > On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 11:29:11AM +0800, Peng Tao wrote: >> > >> > It would be great if somebody could take up Edward's work and port it to >> > GRUB 2. If nobody else does then I'd be interested in doing so myself, >> > although I will not

Re: [GITGRUB] New menu interface (implementation)

2009-09-27 Thread Bean
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 7:01 AM, Michal Suchanek wrote: > Hello > > I tried looking at the overflow but i seriously have no idea what are > all these regions the gfx_region_update_* gets. > > There is some scn_x and scn_y but these do not seem to be the screen > coordinates of the region. > > If I

Re: [GITGRUB] New menu interface (implementation)

2009-09-27 Thread Bean
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 4:46 AM, Michal Suchanek wrote: > Does that mean that now the units are characters in text mode and > pixels in graphics when specified separately? Hi, No, the default unit is still character. In fact, I've removed to "p" unit that's specific to graphic mode, now if you w

load ISO from cd via grub

2009-09-27 Thread E.R
I want to load ISO from cd, but grub couldn'n reconize cd device. Is there any way to find cd device via grub? -- e.r ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel