Re: Bug#461442: please add support for os-prober to detect other OSes in update-grub

2008-01-24 Thread Otavio Salvador
Fabian Greffrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At the moment there is still one problem left: os-prober returns the > partition on which it finds the OS as a system device name, > e.g. /dev/hda2. At the moment, GRUB does not provide an (easy) way to > translate these into GRUB drives, e.g. (hd0,1)

Re: Bug#461442: detection of other OSes in update-grub

2008-01-31 Thread Otavio Salvador
Fabian Greffrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Robert Millan schrieb: >> Suggestions? > > For the time being I could duplicate the convert() function from > Debian's grub-installer to convert the device names. It could be nice so it could be tested on Debian while it's not accepted upstream. > H

Re: Grub Change HELP***

2008-01-31 Thread Otavio Salvador
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I tried this code, but I have some errors, I define the variable but > didn't resolve, the people of the clevo notebook make the especial BIOS to > me,and I need get this value and make the logical comparation!!! Could you > help me? Don't me alone with this problem. I

Re: Data loss at savannah.gnu.org

2009-06-01 Thread Otavio Salvador
"Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko" writes: > I say we should go for git. It would safeguard us from possible future > problems with savannah as we can easily switch between different git > mirrors. Additionally the main argument not to switch to git was that > it doesn't give much benefit considerin

Re: [parted-devel] Parted and GRUB SOC proposals currently without mentors

2007-03-24 Thread Otavio Salvador
"James Youngman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On the GNU project's applications page on the Google Summer of Code > site, there are a couple of projects for Parted and GRUB that I don't > think anybody has yet offered to mentor for. > > Could you guys either give the students some feedback on how

Re: update-grub2 patch

2007-04-17 Thread Otavio Salvador
Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here's my patch. Let me know if it's ok for commit. It looks OK. After commiting it we can start to try to push "plugins" for others like Xen. -- O T A V I OS A L V A D O R - E-mail: [EMAIL PRO

Re: pretty colors in gfxterm

2007-05-05 Thread Otavio Salvador
Marco Gerards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If having a color command means that GRUB 2 will be used more, I am > willing to add such command. Okuji, do you object? But I am only > willing to add this if the Debian people ensure me that they will > switch to whatever fancy graphics system we imp

Re: pretty colors in gfxterm

2007-05-08 Thread Otavio Salvador
"Yoshinori K. Okuji" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tuesday 08 May 2007 15:36, Robert Millan wrote: >> > I don't have much time, either, but I will refactor the menu code sooner >> > or later. Once this is done, it wouldn't be too difficult to implement >> > new intefaces for the menu. >> >> Oth

Re: grub-probe without arguments

2007-05-08 Thread Otavio Salvador
"Yoshinori K. Okuji" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Monday 07 May 2007 22:06, Robert Millan wrote: >> On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 09:23:08PM +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: >> > On Monday 07 May 2007 10:21, Robert Millan wrote: >> > > I think it would be reasonable to allow grub-probe to work witho

Re: pretty colors in gfxterm

2007-05-10 Thread Otavio Salvador
"Yoshinori K. Okuji" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Sorry but I didn't get what you mean by 'ad-hoc features' here. Can >> you elaborate it, please? > > Features, which are not fully examined if they are generic, flexible and > extensible, are all ad-hoc. As I said in this list some times, I beli

Moving to another SCM

2007-05-21 Thread Otavio Salvador
Hello, I'd like to ask if GRUB is planning to move to another SCM? I've been using GIT for a while and it looks great for the kinda of work done at GRUB since there're a lot of people working together and sometimes a feature need some time to get mature enough to be merged in and this fits very w

Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Add multiboot 2 capabilities

2007-07-07 Thread Otavio Salvador
"Jerone Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > diff -r b85dfdfcce16 conf/powerpc-ieee1275.rmk > --- a/conf/powerpc-ieee1275.rmk Wed Jul 04 15:53:23 2007 -0500 > +++ b/conf/powerpc-ieee1275.rmk Thu Jul 05 08:04:34 2007 -0500 > @@ -102,7 +102,9 @@ pkgdata_MODULES = halt.mod \ > linux

Re: Switching to git?

2007-12-06 Thread Otavio Salvador
Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Other GNU projects have switched to git. Savannah supports git. The > list of the GNU projects using git is pretty impressive: > http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/ > > I think GNU GRUB would be a welcome addition. +1. I brought this up to discussion some ti

Re: Switching to git?

2007-12-07 Thread Otavio Salvador
willem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Otavio Salvador wrote: >> Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> >>> Other GNU projects have switched to git. Savannah supports git. The >>> list of the GNU projects using git is pretty impressive

Re: Switching to git?

2007-12-07 Thread Otavio Salvador
Vesa Jääskeläinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > willem wrote: >> Otavio Salvador wrote: >>> Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>> Other GNU projects have switched to git. Savannah supports git. The >>>> list of the GNU projects usin

Re: Switching to git?

2007-12-12 Thread Otavio Salvador
Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I myself have no objection. I'd prefer svn, but that's not supported by > Savannah yet, and anything is better than CVS IMO. In the event that we > decide to migrate to svn in the future, though, is there an easy path > from git to svn? I doubt that y

Re: Switching to git?

2007-12-15 Thread Otavio Salvador
Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So it seems nobody objected. What do we need to proceed? Prepare a file with authors names to be used during the conversion and a run to git-cvsimport using it? :-) -- O T A V I OS A L V A D O R ---

Re: Switching to git?

2007-12-17 Thread Otavio Salvador
"Yoshinori K. Okuji" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Saturday 15 December 2007 11:54, Robert Millan wrote: >> So it seems nobody objected. What do we need to proceed? > > I do object. Personally, I believe that git is inferior to other modern > version control systems, thus I don't want to move

Re: Switching to git?

2007-12-17 Thread Otavio Salvador
Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If there are any specific problems with git pertinent to GRUB or > preferences of the GRUB developers, I'm ready to convey them to the > git developers and take the blame (if any). Personally I'm very happy with GIT and I'm using it in daily basis for mo

Re: Switching to git?

2007-12-18 Thread Otavio Salvador
"Yoshinori K. Okuji" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tuesday 18 December 2007 02:20, Pavel Roskin wrote: >> If there are any specific problems with git pertinent to GRUB or >> preferences of the GRUB developers, I'm ready to convey them to the >> git developers and take the blame (if any). >> >>

Re: Switching to git?

2008-01-04 Thread Otavio Salvador
Jeroen Dekkers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At Sat, 22 Dec 2007 09:28:28 +0100, > Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: >> >> On Tuesday 18 December 2007 13:05, Otavio Salvador wrote: >> > Personally I don't like bazaar due performance problem. It's really >&