Re: [PATCH] Create floppy emulation boot CD with grub-mkimage

2008-03-03 Thread Kalamatee
bah ignore my last mail... yeah floppy or none makes sense On 04/03/2008, Kalamatee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>* *>* OK, e.g.* > >>* * > >>* . --emulation=TYPEselect El Torito boot emulation type floppy* > >>* . or none (default) (cdrom only)* > >>* * > >>* *

Re: [PATCH] Create floppy emulation boot CD with grub-mkimage

2008-03-03 Thread Kalamatee
>>* *>* OK, e.g.* >>* * >>* . --emulation=TYPEselect El Torito boot emulation type floppy* >>* . or none (default) (cdrom only)* >>* * >>* * >>* Or with the help syntax used by the grub binaries:* >>* * >>* . --emulation=(floppy|none) select El Torito boot emulation

Re: eltorito support ..

2008-03-03 Thread Kalamatee
Im not having much joy testing the eltorito support ATM. Ive made the image using grub-mkimage, then used cat to merge the cdboot.imgwith the core file generated using grub-mkimage, and generated an iso with this file but when trying to boot it the following is displayed .. http://s175.photobuc

Re: [PATCH] Create floppy emulation boot CD with grub-mkimage

2008-03-03 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 11:10:31PM +0100, Christian Franke wrote: > Robert Millan wrote: > >On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 10:05:22PM +0100, Christian Franke wrote: > > > >... > >>--- grub2.orig/util/i386/pc/grub-mkrescue.in2008-02-09 > >>14:02:56.057039500 +0100 > >>+++ grub2/util/i386/pc/grub

Re: [PATCH] if timeout is set to zero, don't bother drawing the menu

2008-03-03 Thread Robert Millan
Okay here's a preliminar patch. We still need to define in which ways can the user interrupt it. What do we do on '\n' ? and on ESC ? -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) diff -x configure -x config.h

Re: [PATCH] Create floppy emulation boot CD with grub-mkimage

2008-03-03 Thread Christian Franke
Robert Millan wrote: On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 10:05:22PM +0100, Christian Franke wrote: ... --- grub2.orig/util/i386/pc/grub-mkrescue.in2008-02-09 14:02:56.057039500 +0100 +++ grub2/util/i386/pc/grub-mkrescue.in 2008-03-01 21:52:23.493466900 +0100 @@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ --pkglibdir=DIR

Re: [NEW PATCH] Add option to grub-probe to accept system devices as arguments

2008-03-03 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 09:33:13AM +0100, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > >For this one, I think it'd be much better to rework 10_hurd so that code is > >shared, rather than duplicating the whole blurb. > > Yes, we could source out the complete linux/hurd kernel-adding blurbs > into an external shell l

Re: [NEW PATCH] Add option to grub-probe to accept system devices as arguments

2008-03-03 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 02:46:17PM +0100, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > Robert Millan schrieb: > >Better do this like it's done in other scripts (check grub-install). Not > >sure > >why, I guess it's more portable that way... > > Ah, now I know what you ment. However, I cannot really see the > adva

Re: [PATCH] Handling command line option for core.img and g2ldr

2008-03-03 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 04:10:35PM +0800, Bean wrote: > Hi, > > Perhaps i can check in the part that sets boot device for multiboot > loader first. I think we all agree that this part is desirable :-) -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What use is a phone call… if you a

Re: [PATCH] Create floppy emulation boot CD with grub-mkimage

2008-03-03 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 10:05:22PM +0100, Christian Franke wrote: > > Here a new version of the patch with Joliet enabled always. Should not > break anything. > > Christian > > 2008-03-01 Christian Franke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * util/i386/pc/grub-mkrescue.in: Add --emulation=floppy >

Re: [PATCH] Ensure boot CD can be accessed

2008-03-03 Thread Christian Franke
Bean wrote: On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 5:13 AM, Christian Franke <...> wrote: ... Further testing outdated this patch. The boot CD appeared under the following drive numbers: 0x82 (old Toshiba Laptop with unknown BIOS) 0x9f (PC with Phoenix-Award BIOS, VMware) 0xe0 (VirtualBox) 0xef (PC w