Re: GRUB2 - testing report, hppa support?

2006-12-11 Thread Jan C. Kleinsorge
Vincent Pelletier wrote: > Le mardi 05 décembre 2006 20:46, Yoshinori K. Okuji a écrit : > >>> Oh, btw, it's HIGHLY confusing that disks start at 0, partitions at >>> 1. Could you please fix it and make it consequently? either hd1,1 >>> or hd0,0, but not hd0,1 or hd1,0. >>> >> No. It is c

Re: Starting a kernel out of a running kernel...

2007-01-16 Thread Jan C. Kleinsorge
Volker Jung wrote: > Hello, > > is there a solution for starting a new Linux kernel out of a running > Linux kernel using GRUB or a changed GRUB? First I thought I could use > LILO. But LILO runs in real mode, not having any idea about protected > mode. GRUB runs in protected mode itself - in order

Re: Host filesystem access

2007-05-18 Thread Jan C. Kleinsorge
"affs filesystem" is filesystem doubled anyway. How about ".. filesystem is not of type hffs"? Jan Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 08:48:37 +0200, > Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 11:28:12PM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: >> >>> +

Re: Timed wait/sleep

2007-07-07 Thread Jan C. Kleinsorge
For i/o delays on x86, Linux uses a sequence of outp(0x80). 0x80 is usually unsed. One to three times should be quite sufficient. Jan ex Roman wrote: > On 06 Jul 2007 17:04:19 -0500, Haudy Kazemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Jul 6 2007, Alex Roman wrote: >> I'd avoid straight loops...with tho

Re: Transparent decompression with file system filter

2007-11-15 Thread Jan C. Kleinsorge
Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: > Bean wrote: >> Hi, >> >>> Are you still interested in working on this? >> Yes, if you think this is an useful feature, I can start working on it. >> > > I am just wondering is there need to read compressed files without being > compressed? > > I like the idea that openi