compiling grub2 on mac

2010-06-14 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
I've installed automake, autoconf, gettext and freetype from macports. Manual compiled objconv. I've also installed vanilla fsf-gcc44 toolchain from macports (note it uses system ld, as) 1) Compiling using Apple gcc toolchain compiles, fails to strip, since cctools strip has quite different comma

Re: Which partitioning schemes should be supported by GRUB?

2010-06-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 06:16:13PM +0200, Grégoire Sutre wrote: > On 06/12/2010 07:26 PM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: >> And currently grub isn't changed to new partition notation >> completely. E.g. during startup prefix is calculated with old syntax >> and confusing A+B with eith

Re: Which partitioning schemes should be supported by GRUB?

2010-06-14 Thread richardvo...@gmail.com
> I can think of an alternative.  We do still need grub_install_dos_part > and grub_install_bsd_part for the multiboot trampoline, which is in > assembly, so it's difficult to abandon them altogether.  However, > there's no reason we need to use them in make_install_device.  How about > we invent a

Re: Which partitioning schemes should be supported by GRUB?

2010-06-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 08:07:35AM -0500, richardvo...@gmail.com wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > I can think of an alternative.  We do still need grub_install_dos_part > > and grub_install_bsd_part for the multiboot trampoline, which is in > > assembly, so it's difficult to abandon them altogether

Re: RTL Languages support

2010-06-14 Thread Yaron Shahrabani
I thought It would be a bit easier The problem is that I can't run a virtual machine on my junk so i'm a little stuck I'll check with other Hebrew community members and I'm terribly sorry for the dealy I caused Большое спасибо, Yaron Shahrabani 2010/5/14 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko >

Re: RTL Languages support

2010-06-14 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 06/14/2010 03:33 PM, Yaron Shahrabani wrote: > I thought It would be a bit easier > The problem is that I can't run a virtual machine on my junk so i'm a > little stuck > Have you tried qemu? I haven't seen a single machine where qemu wouldn't run. In order to use grub with qemu the easiest way

Re: Which partitioning schemes should be supported by GRUB?

2010-06-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 02:25:39PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 08:07:35AM -0500, richardvo...@gmail.com wrote: > > Colin Watson wrote: > > > I can think of an alternative.  We do still need grub_install_dos_part > > > and grub_install_bsd_part for the multiboot trampoline,

Re: Which partitioning schemes should be supported by GRUB?

2010-06-14 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 06/14/2010 05:02 PM, Colin Watson wrote: > > 2010-06-14 Colin Watson > > Fix i386-pc prefix handling with nested partitions (Debian bug > #585068). > > * kern/i386/pc/init.c (make_install_device): If the prefix starts > with "(,", fill the boot drive in between those t

Re: Which partitioning schemes should be supported by GRUB?

2010-06-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 05:58:55PM +0200, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > On 06/14/2010 05:02 PM, Colin Watson wrote: > > 2010-06-14 Colin Watson > > > > Fix i386-pc prefix handling with nested partitions (Debian bug > > #585068). > > > > * kern/i386/pc/init.c (make_i

Re: Which partitioning schemes should be supported by GRUB?

2010-06-14 Thread Seth Goldberg
=== modified file 'kern/i386/pc/init.c' --- kern/i386/pc/init.c 2010-05-21 18:08:48 + +++ kern/i386/pc/init.c 2010-06-14 14:44:13 + @@ -83,6 +83,14 @@ make_install_device (void) grub_snprintf (ptr, sizeof (dev) - (ptr - dev), ")%s", grub_prefix); grub_strcpy (grub_prefix, d

Re: Which partitioning schemes should be supported by GRUB?

2010-06-14 Thread Grégoire Sutre
On 06/14/2010 18:43, Colin Watson wrote: Do you have any suggestions on how to deal with that? I'm not familiar with multiboot and need guidance. A possible solution would be to use the multiboot-command line. AFAIK, the boot_device field of the multiboot information structure is supposed to

Re: Which partitioning schemes should be supported by GRUB?

2010-06-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 09:55:09AM -0700, Seth Goldberg wrote: === modified file 'kern/i386/pc/init.c' --- kern/i386/pc/init.c2010-05-21 18:08:48 + +++ kern/i386/pc/init.c2010-06-14 14:44:13 + @@ -83,6 +83,14 @@ make_install_device (void) grub_snprint