Request for review of attached patches for hybrid GPT/MBR

2011-08-21 Thread David Joshua Geary
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 with aim for inclusion in mainline Grub2. Grub2 1.99 is base. Patches to gpt.c and msdos.c in /grub-core/partmap/. Diffs attached with original code and patched code. Goal: To make the disk bootable on: PCs using BIOS, PCs using UEFI, Intel Macintos

Re: [Fwd: [Resolved] Grub2 can not detect usb disk]

2011-08-21 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 20.08.2011 23:45, Aleš Nesrsta wrote: > Hi everybody, > > could anybody test changes from Cui Lei (see below) in uhci.c - if they > are generally working and does not have some negative effect on machines > with "normal" BIOS etc. ? > > Maybe such changes are related only to coreboot and some sp

Request for review of attached patches for hybrid GPT/MBR

2011-08-21 Thread Josh Triplett
Very impressive work! Do you know if the approach you use for hybrid images could also work (with adaptation) for the existing hybrid images bootable via USB or CD .iso? I'd love to create combination images which can work via all the methods you mention and also work as a CD .iso. You might als

Re: Request for review of attached patches for hybrid GPT/MBR

2011-08-21 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 21.08.2011 23:30, Josh Triplett wrote: > Very impressive work! > > Do you know if the approach you use for hybrid images could also work > (with adaptation) for the existing hybrid images bootable via USB or CD > .iso? I'd love to create combination images which can work via all the > methods y

Re: Request for review of attached patches for hybrid GPT/MBR

2011-08-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 02:30:21PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > Do you know if the approach you use for hybrid images could also work > (with adaptation) for the existing hybrid images bootable via USB or CD > .iso? I'd love to create combination images which can work via all the > methods you me