Re: Full documentation for GRUB2

2011-03-31 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 07:15:37PM -0600, Leslie Rhorer wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > That's a reasonable point, thanks. I've added this text to the "Simple > > configuration" node: > > > > `grub-mkconfig' does have some limitations. While adding extra > > custom menu entries to the en

Re: Full documentation for GRUB2

2011-03-31 Thread Isaac Dupree
On 03/30/11 21:15, Leslie Rhorer wrote: ... If you ask me, that seems pretty dismissive of the idea the admin should manually edit grub.cfg. The fact the file is blindly and willfully overwritten by configuration and upgrade utilities would seem to re-enforce the notion it is not a terri

Re: Testing On Macbook on enbug.org

2011-03-31 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 31.03.2011 02:29, Chris Murphy wrote: > re: http://grub.enbug.org/TestingOnMacbook > I am wondering who the author of this page is, and if it's possible to > get a more clear step by step of how a Macbook Pro 4,1 – one of the > testing configurations on that page – was configured to successfully

Re: Full documentation for GRUB2

2011-03-31 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 31.03.2011 10:39, Isaac Dupree wrote: > If QEMU/KVM had a way to make a disk read-only within the simulation*, > then I'd try KVM with the whole disk but readonly. Run, play with > bootloader, abort KVM once it's booting a kernel (which will probably > get confused soon anyway once it realizes

Re: [PATCH] Improve documentation of BIOS installation

2011-03-31 Thread Barry Jackson
On 30/03/11 20:52, Colin Watson wrote: On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 08:00:46PM +0100, Barry Jackson wrote: On 29/03/11 13:40, Colin Watson wrote: With http://grub.enbug.org/BIOS_Boot_Partition being down at the moment, I went to look at what corresponding documentation there was in the manual...

Re: Full documentation for GRUB2

2011-03-31 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 29.03.2011 17:58, Chris Murphy wrote: > It is not due to laziness that Red Hat continues to hack GRUB Legacy, even > for EFI support. > > It's very recent that GRUB2 is suitable for production use. Versions prior to 1.97 aren't suitable for anything else than use by a coder. When Red Hat nee

Re: Testing On Macbook on enbug.org

2011-03-31 Thread KESHAV P.R.
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 05:59, Chris Murphy wrote: > re: http://grub.enbug.org/TestingOnMacbook > > I am wondering who the author of this page is, and if it's possible to get a > more clear step by step of how a Macbook Pro 4,1 – one of the testing > configurations on that page – was configured to

Re: Full documentation for GRUB2

2011-03-31 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 04:39:37AM -0400, Isaac Dupree wrote: > Maybe there's some way to test your experiments? > If QEMU/KVM had a way to make a disk read-only within the > simulation*, then I'd try KVM with the whole disk but readonly. > Run, play with bootloader, abort KVM once it's booting a k

Re: Full documentation for GRUB2

2011-03-31 Thread Patrick Strasser
schrieb Colin Watson am 2011-03-29 19:09: > On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 05:19:09PM +0200, Patrick Strasser wrote: >> I had a simmilar experience regarding the loopback system > > I've committed documentation of this command to trunk. Thanks! Now that was fast. >> >From my experience it's not working

Re: Full documentation for GRUB2

2011-03-31 Thread richardvo...@gmail.com
> I've wondered occasionally whether it would be worth it to include > something like GRUB_STATIC in upstream grub-mkconfig; if set, this would > cause grub-mkconfig to do nothing, perhaps printing a message.  This > would mean you wouldn't have to figure out how to disable distribution > facilitie

Re: Full documentation for GRUB2

2011-03-31 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 08:59:05AM -0500, richardvo...@gmail.com wrote: > > I've wondered occasionally whether it would be worth it to include > > something like GRUB_STATIC in upstream grub-mkconfig; if set, this would > > cause grub-mkconfig to do nothing, perhaps printing a message.  This > > wo

Your contributions to grub.enbug.org

2011-03-31 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Hello, when discussing after the temporary wiki problems it was decided that it would be better to migrate the information from wiki into the manual and developper manual where legal reasons permit. You have contributed to the wiki, would you agree to consider that your contributor agreement covers

Re: Your contributions to grub.enbug.org

2011-03-31 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 21:17:10 +0200 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > Hello, when discussing after the temporary wiki problems it was > decided that it would be better to migrate the information from wiki > into the manual and developper manual where legal reasons permit. You > have c

Re: Your contributions to grub.enbug.org

2011-03-31 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: Hello, when discussing after the temporary wiki problems it was decided that it would be better to migrate the information from wiki into the manual and developper manual where legal reasons permit. You have contributed to the wiki, would you agree to

Fwd: Your contributions to grub.enbug.org

2011-03-31 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Sorry, Carles. Forgot to add you. Original Message Subject:Your contributions to grub.enbug.org Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 21:17:10 +0200 From: Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko To: Yoshinori K. Okuji , Felix Zielcke , Robert Millan , plr.vinc...@gmail.com, ch...

Re: Your contributions to grub.enbug.org

2011-03-31 Thread Vincent Pelletier
Le jeudi 31 mars 2011 21:17:10, vous avez écrit : > would you agree to consider that your contributor agreement covers wiki as > well? Sure, no problem. -- Vincent Pelletier ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/l

Re: Your contributions to grub.enbug.org

2011-03-31 Thread Grégoire Sutre
On 03/31/2011 09:17 PM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: Hello, when discussing after the temporary wiki problems it was decided that it would be better to migrate the information from wiki into the manual and developper manual where legal reasons permit. You have contributed to the w

Re: Fwd: Your contributions to grub.enbug.org

2011-03-31 Thread Carles Pina i Estany
Yes, I do agree. On Mar/31/2011, Vladimir '??-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > Sorry, Carles. Forgot to add you. > > Original Message > Subject: Your contributions to grub.enbug.org > Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 21:17:10 +0200 > From: Vladimir '??-coder/phcode