Re: [GTG] Re: [ITP] VOTE: grub 1.96-1 [experimental]

2008-04-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 31 11:42, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: Christian Franke writes: I've uploaded a new build with a minor fix in grub-probe and genisoimage added to the dependencies: http://franke.dvrdns.org/cygwin/release/grub/grub-1.96-1.tar.bz2

[GTG] Re: [ITP] VOTE: grub 1.96-1 [experimental]

2008-03-31 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Christian Franke writes: I've uploaded a new build with a minor fix in grub-probe and genisoimage added to the dependencies: http://franke.dvrdns.org/cygwin/release/grub/grub-1.96-1.tar.bz2 http://franke.dvrdns.org/cygwin/release/grub/grub-1.96-1-src.tar.bz2

Re: [ITP] VOTE: grub 1.96-1 [experimental]

2008-03-28 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Charles Wilson writes: Christian Franke wrote: But the GRUB2 package does contain more than these binaries (kernel.img + 76 .mod files). It provides several support tools to install (grub-install), try boot menu and shell (grub-emu), check native filesystem access

Re: [ITP] VOTE: grub 1.96-1 [experimental]

2008-03-28 Thread Jari Aalto
* Fri 2008-03-28 Volker Zell [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Charles: +1 Volker: +1 +1 Jari -- Welcome to FOSS revolution: we fix and modify until it shines

Re: [ITP] VOTE: grub 1.96-1 [experimental]

2008-03-28 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Volker Zell writes: +1 Builds fine from source and packaging look good. setup.hint requires line needs in addition the following package dependencies: coreutils sed tar Some shell scripts in the package use them. One question regarding your cygwin README: Runtime requirements (these

Re: [ITP] VOTE: grub 1.96-1 [experimental]

2008-03-27 Thread Christian Franke
Charles Wilson wrote: Christian Franke wrote: I would like to contribute my Cygwin port of the boot manager GRUB2. (http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-2.en.html) Is anybody else as confused as I am? How in the world can you have a *boot manager* ported to cygwin? Cygwin requires the

Re: [ITP] VOTE: grub 1.96-1 [experimental]

2008-03-27 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Christian Franke on 3/27/2008 4:32 AM: | If GRUB2 is used and Windows is the main work OS, it is IMO useful to | maintain the boot manger from Cygwin. If GRUB2 is not used as boot | manger, the tools in the package can still be used to

Re: [ITP] VOTE: grub 1.96-1 [experimental]

2008-03-27 Thread Charles Wilson
Christian Franke wrote: But the GRUB2 package does contain more than these binaries (kernel.img + 76 .mod files). It provides several support tools to install (grub-install), try boot menu and shell (grub-emu), check native filesystem access (grub-fstest) or build rescue boot cdrom/floppy

RE: [ITP] VOTE: grub 1.96-1 [experimental]

2008-03-27 Thread Dave Korn
Christian Franke wrote on 26 March 2008 19:48: I would like to contribute my Cygwin port of the boot manager GRUB2. +1. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today

Re: [ITP] VOTE: grub 1.96-1 [experimental]

2008-03-26 Thread Charles Wilson
Christian Franke wrote: I would like to contribute my Cygwin port of the boot manager GRUB2. (http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-2.en.html) Is anybody else as confused as I am? How in the world can you have a *boot manager* ported to cygwin? Cygwin requires the host Windows OS to be up