Bug#422370: should switch to grub2 when using GPT

2007-05-12 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 08:48:43AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: $ time sudo grub-probe -t partmap /boot/grub pc real0m0.469s user0m0.000s sys 0m0.088s Not sure why /dev/hda is so slow though. Maybe it's a bug, but not an important one. Actually I think we can do much

Bug#422370: should switch to grub2 when using GPT

2007-05-12 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 12 May 2007 11:09, Robert Millan wrote: Actually I think we can do much better with our own simple program that uses libparted. See attachment. That's great! Exactly the sort of thing I was thinking about. On my amd64 sid, compiled with -Os and stripped it just takes 5224 bytes.

Bug#422370: should switch to grub2 when using GPT

2007-05-11 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 05:42:30PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 10 May 2007 17:26, Robert Millan wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 03:48:49PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 10 May 2007 15:30, Robert Millan wrote: grub-probe -t partmap does exactly that, with 104 KiB (-O2) and

Bug#422370: should switch to grub2 when using GPT

2007-05-10 Thread Otavio Salvador
Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 03:00:15PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: Package: grub-installer Severity: important As of 1.95+20070505-1, grub2 supports GPT on PC/BIOS systems [1]. When user is installing a GPT disk, grub-installer should automaticaly

Bug#422370: should switch to grub2 when using GPT

2007-05-10 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 09 May 2007 22:21, Otavio Salvador wrote: I like the patch and would like to commit it (anyone against it?). I'm wondering if xfs works on grub2. Have you ever tested it? I didn't. Yes. See my reply from yesterday. pgpO4Gbde1uV1.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#422370: should switch to grub2 when using GPT

2007-05-10 Thread Otavio Salvador
Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wednesday 09 May 2007 22:21, Otavio Salvador wrote: I like the patch and would like to commit it (anyone against it?). I'm wondering if xfs works on grub2. Have you ever tested it? I didn't. Yes. See my reply from yesterday. Ok, I'll see if I have time

Bug#422370: should switch to grub2 when using GPT

2007-05-10 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 05:21:07PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 03:00:15PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: Package: grub-installer Severity: important As of 1.95+20070505-1, grub2 supports GPT on PC/BIOS systems [1]. When

Bug#422370: should switch to grub2 when using GPT

2007-05-10 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 10:34:49PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: tags 422370 - patch thanks On Wednesday 09 May 2007 22:02, Robert Millan wrote: Here it is. I tested it with grub-installer from trunk, but only in combination with an etch installer because of current mklibs/gcc/binutils

Bug#422370: should switch to grub2 when using GPT

2007-05-10 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 10 May 2007 15:30, Robert Millan wrote: grub-probe -t partmap does exactly that, with 104 KiB (-O2) and no other dependencies. Do you want an udeb that includes grub-probe? Can you give an example of its output? Alternatively, could partman write partition table information to

Bug#422370: should switch to grub2 when using GPT

2007-05-10 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 03:48:49PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 10 May 2007 15:30, Robert Millan wrote: grub-probe -t partmap does exactly that, with 104 KiB (-O2) and no other dependencies. Do you want an udeb that includes grub-probe? Can you give an example of its output? $

Bug#422370: should switch to grub2 when using GPT

2007-05-10 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 10 May 2007 17:26, Robert Millan wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 03:48:49PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 10 May 2007 15:30, Robert Millan wrote: grub-probe -t partmap does exactly that, with 104 KiB (-O2) and no other dependencies. Do you want an udeb that includes

Bug#422370: should switch to grub2 when using GPT

2007-05-09 Thread Robert Millan
tags 422370 patch thanks On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 03:00:15PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: Package: grub-installer Severity: important As of 1.95+20070505-1, grub2 supports GPT on PC/BIOS systems [1]. When user is installing a GPT disk, grub-installer should automaticaly switch to grub2 (or

Bug#422370: should switch to grub2 when using GPT

2007-05-09 Thread Frans Pop
tags 422370 - patch thanks On Wednesday 09 May 2007 22:02, Robert Millan wrote: Here it is. I tested it with grub-installer from trunk, but only in combination with an etch installer because of current mklibs/gcc/binutils breakage. Sorry, but depending on parted-udeb for this is IMO not

Bug#422370: should switch to grub2 when using GPT

2007-05-05 Thread Robert Millan
Package: grub-installer Severity: important As of 1.95+20070505-1, grub2 supports GPT on PC/BIOS systems [1]. When user is installing a GPT disk, grub-installer should automaticaly switch to grub2 (or the install will fail with errors). I'll send a patch later when I have some minutes. [1]