Re: [PATCH] Create environment block safely

2009-10-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 09:31:55PM -0500, richardvo...@gmail.com wrote: > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Colin Watson wrote: > > If grub-editenv create is interrupted, it's theoretically possible for > > it to create an incomplete block that future grub-editenv calls won't > > recognise. It woul

Re: grub_prefix seems wrong for separate /boot partition

2009-10-02 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Donnerstag, den 01.10.2009, 23:29 +0200 schrieb Christoph Mathys: > Hello > > Not sure if I've come to the right place, but here is my story: > > Yesterday, my package manager (deb on testing) decided that the time has > come to switch to grub 1.97~beta3. Well, afterwards my system did not >

Re: [GITGRUB] New menu interface (implementation)

2009-10-02 Thread Bean
Hi, Update: Add input handler, now you can walk the widget tree with keys. New properties: command If command is set, the widget is selectable anchor This is used to group widgets together, next and previous key can't escape the current anchor. For example, if there are two menus, what would

Re: [GITGRUB] New menu interface (implementation)

2009-10-02 Thread Michal Suchanek
2009/10/1 Bean : > On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Michal Suchanek wrote: >> 2009/10/1 Bean : >>> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Michal Suchanek wrote: 2009/10/1 Bean : > On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Michal Suchanek > wrote: >> Cannot this be inferred automatically? >>

Re: [PATCH] Create environment block safely

2009-10-02 Thread richardvo...@gmail.com
>> You might also need to check for the alternate name, in case the >> operation failed after writing the new content and unlinking the old >> file, but before renaming the new file. > > There is no old file here, or if there is then the user has already > explicitly indicated that they don't care

Re: grub_prefix seems wrong for separate /boot partition

2009-10-02 Thread Christoph Mathys
Felix Zielcke wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 01.10.2009, 23:29 +0200 schrieb Christoph Mathys: Maybe grub_prefix should be setable on the command line of grub-install? Or some other bad mistake on my part because of scoping the amount of documentation I read using google? It should be never need

Re: Creating an (Apple) EFI bootable media

2009-10-02 Thread Michal Suchanek
2009/10/2 Peter Cros : > OSX bless works for me with grub.efi in any hfsplus partition using the form >   bless --folder /xyz  --file /xyz/grub/grub.efi > (if the file paths are correct - I use GUI and drag the file icon onto a > terminal commandline) > > However it is not always necessary to bless

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

2009-10-02 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 09:47:50AM +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > Peng Tao wrote: > > 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 wor

Re: Support for howmany option in grub2

2009-10-02 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 08:04:51PM +0200, j...@hkfree.org wrote: > 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 scri

Re: Support for howmany option in grub2

2009-10-02 Thread richardvo...@gmail.com
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Robert Millan wrote: > On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 08:04:51PM +0200, j...@hkfree.org wrote: >> 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 >> origi

Re: Support for howmany option in grub2

2009-10-02 Thread Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
Robert Millan wrote: > On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 08:04:51PM +0200, j...@hkfree.org wrote: > >> 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 w

Re: Support for howmany option in grub2

2009-10-02 Thread Michal Suchanek
2009/10/3 Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko : > Robert Millan wrote: >> On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 08:04:51PM +0200, j...@hkfree.org wrote: >> >>> 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 f