Re: [RFC] Dynamic device.map

2010-01-08 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Donnerstag, den 07.01.2010, 23:27 -0600 schrieb Bruce Dubbs: > Colin Watson wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 04:18:37PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > >> Robert Millan wrote: > >>> On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 04:00:23PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > Just leave it with (/dev/foo). > You mean

Re: [PATCH] Search hinting support

2010-01-08 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 02:04:18PM +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > -"NAME [VARIABLE]", > +"NAME [VARIABLE] [HINTS]", I think this can be done without an additional interface: root variable already has the desired information.

Re: GRUB update problems

2010-01-08 Thread Henry W. Peters
Ok, not getting any response here, probably means either: 1.) This is not the correct forum for someone NOT knowledgeable in the inner workings of GRUB2, 2.) & or no one give a flying fig if someone has a serious problem involving GRUB (1 or 2). Would someone be so kind as to explain... & p

Re: GRUB update problems

2010-01-08 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 10:39:38AM -0500, Henry W. Peters wrote: > Ok, not getting any response here, probably means either: > > 1.) This is not the correct forum for someone NOT knowledgeable in the > inner workings of GRUB2, > > 2.) & or no one give a flying fig if someone has a serious problem

[PATC] Unit testing framework adjusted over trunk

2010-01-08 Thread BVK Chaitanya
Hi, Attached is the patch that adds unit-testing framework support to GRUB. Its been adjusted to work over trunk branch, and has few changes from what is available in my people/bvk/unit-testing-support branch. Since my all of my other works has one-or-two unit tests, this is a pre-requisite and

Re: GRUB 1.98 available in debian lenny, How to get fancy terminal ?

2010-01-08 Thread J. Bakshi
On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 10:13:45 -0500 Chris Jones wrote: > On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 09:29:57AM EST, J. Bakshi wrote: > > > Hello everyone, > > > > I am happy to see the availability of grub 1.98 in debian lenny > > after the up-gradation I did yesterday night. The /boot/grub folder > > now contains

Re: [RFC] Dynamic device.map

2010-01-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Felix Zielcke wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 07.01.2010, 23:27 -0600 schrieb Bruce Dubbs: OK, I didn't realize set root was capable of using UUIDs. I did know that the two root entries were different. I got that mixed up with the search command combined with the root=UUID=... which I think needs

Re: GRUB update problems

2010-01-08 Thread Henry W. Peters
Robert Millan wrote: On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 10:39:38AM -0500, Henry W. Peters wrote: Ok, not getting any response here, probably means either: 1.) This is not the correct forum for someone NOT knowledgeable in the inner workings of GRUB2, 2.) & or no one give a flying fig if someone has

Re: GRUB update problems

2010-01-08 Thread Henry W. Peters
* Henry W. Peters wrote: * Robert Millan wrote: In principle, the right list for obtaining help with GRUB would be help-grub. But in practice, I'm not sure if there will be people there who can provide user assistance. Therefore user questions are tollerated in grub-devel. I'd really like to

Re: Invalid symbol table on NetBSD boot

2010-01-08 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 01:44:25AM +0100, Grégoire Sutre wrote: > Robert Millan wrote: > >> I suggest you test if GRUB Legacy's Multiboot loader supports this >> properly, as the code I used derives from that. > > Yes, the problem disappears with GRUB Legacy's multiboot. Moreover, I > noticed an

Re: GRUB Faq

2010-01-08 Thread richardvo...@gmail.com
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Robert Millan wrote: > On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 12:08:28AM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> I've been working on grub.texi and I notice a reference to >> http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-faq.html.  I will change that to >> grub-2-faq.en.html before I submit it. > >

[PATCH] Some tests using unit-testing-framework

2010-01-08 Thread BVK Chaitanya
Hi, Attached patch has some tests that I wrote using my earlier unit-testing-framework patch. These would serve as examples for other developers to write unit tests if necessary. Let me know your comments. This patch is also available in grub/branches/some-testcases branch. -- bvk.chaitany