Re: GSoC: CD-ROM booting options

2007-06-07 Thread Alex Roman
That's what I plan on doing... I want to write a module that for now just allows me to test various int 13h calls, look at their return values and get a general idea of how things work. Thanks for the idea Vesa! Cheers! On 07/06/07, Vesa Jääskeläinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Alex Roman wrot

Alternative booting method for grub2

2007-06-07 Thread Bean
It's possible to boot grub2 using the grub4dos boot loader. 1. create a kernel: grub-mkimage -d . -o core.img pc fat ntfs make sure you include the necessary file system driver. 2. add a header to core.img. cat g2hdr.bin core.img > g2ldr g2hdr.bin can be found in the grubutil package. 3

Re: NTFS file system driver for grub2

2007-06-07 Thread Bean
fix a small bug, also implement the label function. ntfs.c.gz Description: Binary data ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: Re: NTFS file system driver for grub2

2007-06-07 Thread bean123
在2007-06-08,"Robert Millan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 写道: From: "Robert Millan" To: "The development of GRUB 2" Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 04:08:10 +0800 (CST) Subject: Re: NTFS file system driver for grub2 > > Really nice! I tested it on filesystems from win2k, winxp and vista, and > works > f

Re: GSoC: CD-ROM booting options

2007-06-07 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Alex Roman wrote: > On 05/06/07, adrian15 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> GRUB 2 needs to support both cases, but I prefer to see something not >> present in GRUB Legacy implemented in GRUB 2 first. > > Good point... In any case there's some commonality between the two > cases and for now I'm workin

Re: NTFS file system driver for grub2

2007-06-07 Thread Robert Millan
Really nice! I tested it on filesystems from win2k, winxp and vista, and works fine for listing directories and reading small files. On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 08:30:07PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 百 万 同 时 在 线,人 山 人 海 同 玩 梦 幻 西 游 My font can't display this.. is it Chinese? -- Robert

grub-mkrescue: Make GRUB rescue image

2007-06-07 Thread Robert Millan
I'm attaching a small utility to generate a floppy or cdrom (based on floppy emulation) rescue image, that takes all the hassle of generating the image and doesn't need root permissions. If nobody objects, I'd like to put this in CVS. -- Robert Millan My spam trap is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: t

Re: GSoC: CD-ROM booting options

2007-06-07 Thread Alex Roman
On 05/06/07, adrian15 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: GRUB 2 needs to support both cases, but I prefer to see something not present in GRUB Legacy implemented in GRUB 2 first. Good point... In any case there's some commonality between the two cases and for now I'm working to see if I can read some E

Re: grub2 miscelanea questions (2/2)

2007-06-07 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 09:35:10AM +0200, adrian15 wrote: > 23) set read only variables > == > unset prefix lets me "delete" the prefix variable. > unset root does not let me the "root" variable. > > I remember that bash has an option to set read only variables. > Maybe

boot on amd64

2007-06-07 Thread Constantine Kousoulos
Hello all, I 'm building a (non linux) kernel natively on i386 and on amd64. My linker script defines the first section to be one called 'boot'. This is where i put multiboot headers so that they are within the first 8 bytes of the kernel image. Grub2 succesfully retrieves the headers from th

Re: grub2 miscelanea questions (1/2)

2007-06-07 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 09:34:55AM +0200, adrian15 wrote: > 6) Compulsory Argument dilemma > > If I run help I can seen things like this: > > ls [-f|-l|-s] NAME > > and > > [ EXPRESSION ] > > > If [ ] means optional it should also mean optional in t

pager (Re: grub2 miscelanea questions (1/2))

2007-06-07 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 08:26:35PM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: > > 5.1) pager > > - > > > > When I want to do a big ls the output does not stop screen by screen... > > Is there any hidden pager that I do not know? > > Maybe is not implemented yet? > > set pager=1 > > It just isn't doc

Re: Grub Loading Linux? kernel

2007-06-07 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 08:04:43PM +0200, adrian15 wrote: > When you boot Grub... it prompts something like: > > Grub loading kernel > > then you see: > > Welcome to GRUB. > > and then you see the prompt. > > Let's see an irc conversation of the future. > > noob> Hey My Grub loads the linux k

grub2 miscelanea questions #2

2007-06-07 Thread adrian15
1) search command file not found: = If you search for an inexistant file like: search -f /boot/grub/und-video it complains: error: no such device Shouldn't it be: error: no such file /boot/grub/und-video I mean i

map command for grub2 draft

2007-06-07 Thread adrian15
I want to implement the map command for grub2 as long as it is an interesting thing for stupid windows oses and because it's the clue for making an "usbshift" equivalent command (See Super Grub Disk usbshift command for more details). 1st) Where to save an array?

NTFS file system driver for grub2

2007-06-07 Thread bean123
百 万 同 时 在 线,人 山 人 海 同 玩 梦 幻 西 游 ntfs.c.gz Description: application/gzip-compressed ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel