Re: macbook keyboard workaround (Re: [PATCH] Loading windows in macbook)

2008-06-29 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 11:34:07PM +0800, Bean wrote: > On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:13 PM, Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 04:11:18AM +0800, Bean wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> This patch fix two problem that can cause problem for grub-pc in macbook. > > > > Somewhat

Re: [PATCH] add a counter in grub_dprintf

2008-06-29 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 05:20:51PM +0200, Javier Martín wrote: > El jue, 26-06-2008 a las 16:08 +0200, Robert Millan escribió: > > On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 04:35:07PM +0200, Javier Martín wrote: > > > > > > Why not modify the build system to create _two_ instances of kernel.img, > > > one with and

Re: Failure to embed core.img is fatal now

2008-06-29 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 12:54:54PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > + dos_part = grub_cpu_to_le32 (root_dev->disk->partition->index); > + bsd_part = grub_cpu_to_le32 (-1); > [...] >grub_util_info ("dos partition is %d, bsd partition is %d", > - grub_le_to_cpu32 (*i

Re: [RFC PATCH] Sector 2 of non-embedded core.img: write early or patch later?

2008-06-29 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 05:24:59PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > Hello! > > We have a serious problem with installing onto partitions (e.g. > grub-install /dev/sda1) and drives with geometry that doesn't leave > enough space for core.img to be embedded before the first partition. > While it's not a

Re: macbook keyboard workaround (Re: [PATCH] Loading windows in macbook)

2008-06-29 Thread Bean
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 7:23 PM, Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 11:34:07PM +0800, Bean wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:13 PM, Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 04:11:18AM +0800, Bean wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> This patch

New developer available :)

2008-06-29 Thread Collin Gregory
Hello everyone, My name is Greg and i'm a french developper. I'm very interested in helping for the grub 2 development. My skills are C++ , C and assembly, i'm using linux for 6 years now and i'm sure i can help, if you would agree to ! I'm very interested in Video part of the project, can i do s

Re: New developer available :)

2008-06-29 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Collin Gregory wrote: Hello everyone, My name is Greg and i'm a french developper. I'm very interested in helping for the grub 2 development. My skills are C++ , C and assembly, i'm using linux for 6 years now and i'm sure i can help, if you would agree to ! I'm very interested in Video par

Re: [RFC PATCH] Sector 2 of non-embedded core.img: write early or patch later?

2008-06-29 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Robert Millan wrote: On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 05:24:59PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: Hello! We have a serious problem with installing onto partitions (e.g. grub-install /dev/sda1) and drives with geometry that doesn't leave enough space for core.img to be embedded before the first partition. Whil

Re: Failure to embed core.img is fatal now

2008-06-29 Thread Pavel Roskin
Quoting Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 12:54:54PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: + dos_part = grub_cpu_to_le32 (root_dev->disk->partition->index); + bsd_part = grub_cpu_to_le32 (-1); [...] grub_util_info ("dos partition is %d, bsd partition is

Re: macbook keyboard workaround (Re: [PATCH] Loading windows in macbook)

2008-06-29 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 07:43:13PM +0800, Bean wrote: > > > > Strange.. does it work for you if you chainload it from GRUB Legacy? > > Hi, > > But grub legacy should have the keyboard issue as well, is there a > patch for it ? In the debian version we have this patch: http://svn.debian.org/v

Re: [RFC PATCH] Sector 2 of non-embedded core.img: write early or patch later?

2008-06-29 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 04:23:24PM +0300, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: > > This also relates to problem with installing to MBR and there is no room > for embedding core.img there. I have been using USB stick where there is > not enough room for core.img what I want to store there. So only option >

Re: New developer available :)

2008-06-29 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 02:29:19PM +0200, Collin Gregory wrote: > Hello everyone, > > My name is Greg and i'm a french developper. I'm very interested in helping > for the grub 2 development. My skills are C++ , C and assembly, i'm using > linux for 6 years now and i'm sure i can help, if you woul

Re: [RFC PATCH] Sector 2 of non-embedded core.img: write early or patch later?

2008-06-29 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Robert Millan wrote: On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 04:23:24PM +0300, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: This also relates to problem with installing to MBR and there is no room for embedding core.img there. I have been using USB stick where there is not enough room for core.img what I want to store there. So o

Re: macbook keyboard workaround (Re: [PATCH] Loading windows in macbook)

2008-06-29 Thread Bean
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 1:36 AM, Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 07:43:13PM +0800, Bean wrote: >> > >> > Strange.. does it work for you if you chainload it from GRUB Legacy? >> >> Hi, >> >> But grub legacy should have the keyboard issue as well, is there a >> patc

grub 2: xfs.mod reads some directories incorrectly

2008-06-29 Thread bitbucket
Hello, I want to bring to your attention a problem with the XFS module of grub2 since I was told that you might not always pay attention to the bugtracker. I've reported the bug at savannah.gnu.org as well as on the Debian BTS, so I'm pasting the interesting snippets from the latter one for you

Re: macbook keyboard workaround (Re: [PATCH] Loading windows in macbook)

2008-06-29 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Bean wrote: On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 1:36 AM, Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 07:43:13PM +0800, Bean wrote: Strange.. does it work for you if you chainload it from GRUB Legacy? Hi, But grub legacy should have the keyboard issue as well, is there a patch for it

grub-probe detects ext4 wronly as ext2

2008-06-29 Thread Felix Zielcke
Hello, I reported this already on Debian as #488235 grub-probe -t fs shows ext2 for a filesystem created with e2fsprogs 1.41WIP from Debian experimental with extent and flex_bg I didn't get grub-probe working with the loopback device even though I added it to device.map it still complained. T

Re: grub-probe detects ext4 wronly as ext2

2008-06-29 Thread Javier Martín
El dom, 29-06-2008 a las 20:11 +0200, Felix Zielcke escribió: > Hello, > > I reported this already on Debian as #488235 > > grub-probe -t fs shows ext2 for a filesystem created with e2fsprogs 1.41WIP > from Debian experimental > with extent and flex_bg > I didn't get grub-probe working with the

Re: grub 2: xfs.mod reads some directories incorrectly

2008-06-29 Thread Bean
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 2:00 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I want to bring to your attention a problem with the XFS module of grub2 since > I was told that you might not always pay attention to the bugtracker. I've > reported the bug at savannah.gnu.org as well as on the Debian BTS,

Re: grub-probe detects ext4 wronly as ext2

2008-06-29 Thread Bean
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 2:46 AM, Javier Martín <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > El dom, 29-06-2008 a las 20:11 +0200, Felix Zielcke escribió: >> Hello, >> >> I reported this already on Debian as #488235 >> >> grub-probe -t fs shows ext2 for a filesystem created with e2fsprogs 1.41WIP >> from Debian exp

Re: grub-probe detects ext4 wronly as ext2

2008-06-29 Thread Javier Martín
El lun, 30-06-2008 a las 03:17 +0800, Bean escribió: > Hi, > > I think it's not difficult to add extents support for grub2. Is the > feature stable now, how many distro enable it by default ? > Ext4 is as of today in development and unstable; in fact, the FS name in Linux is "ext4dev", but I _thi

Re: New developer available :)

2008-06-29 Thread walt
Collin Gregory wrote: Hello everyone, My name is Greg and i'm a french developper. I'm very interested in helping for the grub 2 development. My skills are C++ , C and assembly, i'm using linux for 6 years now and i'm sure i can help, if you would agree to !... Hi Greg, I have an idea for you

Re: macbook keyboard workaround (Re: [PATCH] Loading windows in macbook)

2008-06-29 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 01:56:44AM +0800, Bean wrote: > On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 1:36 AM, Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 07:43:13PM +0800, Bean wrote: > >> > > >> > Strange.. does it work for you if you chainload it from GRUB Legacy? > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> But

Re: macbook keyboard workaround (Re: [PATCH] Loading windows in macbook)

2008-06-29 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 09:02:19PM +0300, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: > Bean wrote: > >On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 1:36 AM, Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 07:43:13PM +0800, Bean wrote: > Strange.. does it work for you if you chainload it from GRUB Legacy? > >>>Hi,

Re: [RFC PATCH] Sector 2 of non-embedded core.img: write early or patch later?

2008-06-29 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 08:44:28PM +0300, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: > Robert Millan wrote: > >On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 04:23:24PM +0300, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: > >>This also relates to problem with installing to MBR and there is no room > >>for embedding core.img there. I have been using USB stick

Re: grub-probe detects ext4 wronly as ext2

2008-06-29 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 09:53:50PM +0200, Javier Martín wrote: > Ext4 is as of today in development and unstable; in fact, the FS name in > Linux is "ext4dev", but I _think_ the on-disk format is already frozen > and thus a readonly driver can be written. I'm not saying that we should > delay the i

Re: grub 2: xfs.mod reads some directories incorrectly

2008-06-29 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 03:15:06AM +0800, Bean wrote: > > Thanks for your discovery, your patch seems fine to me. Ok. I checked this in. -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What good is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.)

Re: [PATCH] New x86_64 EFI patch

2008-06-29 Thread Isaac Dupree
Bean wrote: I wonder if there is bug in the hfsplus module. You can check it out with grub-fstest command: sudo ./grub-fstest /dev/sda3 ls / This would list the content of root directory. outputs nothing, just a blank line, for /dev/sda2 which is my hfsplus (it works fine for fat16, ext3 par

[PATCH] Small fix in grub-setup

2008-06-29 Thread Javier Martín
Here goes a small fix to a grub-setup error that has driven /me crazy for the last 4 hours: in the recent split between core_path and core_path_dev, one occurrence of the former that should have been turned into the latter was not, thus making grub-setup spit lots of nonsensical (to me) "error: fil

[PATCH] Fix chainloding + Chainloading into logical partitions

2008-06-29 Thread Lucas Gadani
Hello, This is my first patch for GRUB, and I haven't found any coding styles/formatting, nor developer documentation, so, if there's something wrong, please, forgive me and point me to the right direction. Current implementation of the chainloading code does not work, cause it reads the partitio

Re: grub-probe detects ext4 wronly as ext2

2008-06-29 Thread Javier Martín
El dom, 29-06-2008 a las 23:19 +0200, Robert Millan escribió: > On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 09:53:50PM +0200, Javier Martín wrote: > > Ext4 is as of today in development and unstable; in fact, the FS name in > > Linux is "ext4dev", but I _think_ the on-disk format is already frozen > > and thus a reado

Re: New developer available :)

2008-06-29 Thread Bean
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 4:43 AM, walt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Collin Gregory wrote: >> >> Hello everyone, >> >> My name is Greg and i'm a french developper. I'm very interested in >> helping for the grub 2 development. My skills are C++ , C and assembly, >> i'm using linux for 6 years now and

Re: [PATCH] New x86_64 EFI patch

2008-06-29 Thread Bean
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 7:55 AM, Isaac Dupree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bean wrote: >> >> I wonder if there is bug in the hfsplus module. You can check it out >> with grub-fstest command: >> >> sudo ./grub-fstest /dev/sda3 ls / >> >> This would list the content of root directory. > > outputs not