Re: [RFC] Dynamic device.map

2009-12-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 01:55:27AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 11:04:43PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > I'm trying to figure out how to make Debian's grub-installer operate > > without a device.map; it has various legacy bits and pieces that need > > conversion, and I'm w

Re: [RFC] Dynamic device.map

2009-12-10 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Donnerstag, den 10.12.2009, 01:55 +0100 schrieb Robert Millan: > But first we'd need to figure out what we do with the "set root=xxx" > backward compatibility hack. Has it been a while long enough that > we can remove support for GRUB installs that didn't come with UUID > support? Well we sti

Re: autogen.sh warnings

2009-12-10 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Donnerstag, den 10.12.2009, 00:05 -0600 schrieb Bruce Dubbs: > On the other hand, config.guess is used to get build_cpu and build_os > and I don't see that being used at all right now by grub. Well just after the part you quoted from me, I thought I made it clear that the output of config.gue

Re: Broken common.rmk change

2009-12-10 Thread Seth Goldberg
That was my intent, yes. --S Quoting BVK Chaitanya, who wrote the following on Thu, 10 Dec 2009: On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 3:15 AM, Robert Millan wrote: On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 10:23:51PM +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: Seth proposed a hinting technique: search --fs_uu

New Chinese (simplified) PO file for 'grub' (version 1.97+20091122)

2009-12-10 Thread Translation Project Robot
Hello, gentle maintainer. This is a message from the Translation Project robot. A revised PO file for textual domain 'grub' has been submitted by the Chinese (simplified) team of translators. The file is available at: http://translationproject.org/latest/grub/zh_CN.po (We can arrange thing

Re: autogen.sh warnings

2009-12-10 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Felix Zielcke wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 10.12.2009, 00:05 -0600 schrieb Bruce Dubbs: On the other hand, config.guess is used to get build_cpu and build_os and I don't see that being used at all right now by grub. Well just after the part you quoted from me, I thought I made it clear that the

Re: Documenting the GRUB configure (during build)

2009-12-10 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Robert Millan wrote: On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 03:42:24PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I'm afraid I don't agree that the solution to documenting changes is not to document anything. That may be a little harsh, but I firmly believe that documentation is key to acceptance. It's OK. Well my conc

Re: Documenting the GRUB configure (during build)

2009-12-10 Thread Seth Goldberg
Quoting Bruce Dubbs, who wrote the following on Thu, 10 Dec 2009: Robert Millan wrote: On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 03:42:24PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I'm afraid I don't agree that the solution to documenting changes is not to document anything. That may be a little harsh, but I firmly believe

Re: Build failures on Ubuntu due to gettext

2009-12-10 Thread Carles Pina i Estany
Hi, On Dec/10/2009, Robert Millan wrote: > On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 12:10:34AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > Even if we're only discussing a change in five places, I assume we're > going to find this situation in lots of calls throurough GRUB code. > If this is so, it really calls for a solution t

Re: [solved] Re: USB device not seen by grub

2009-12-10 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 04:16:45AM EST, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > Chris Jones wrote: [..] > > Why do I have to enable tracing to make it work? > > > Because a dprintf acted as a forgotten millisleep. This patch should > fix it. On my machine I still have issues because uhci.