Re: menu loop (patch)

2008-07-19 Thread chaac
"Yoshinori K. Okuji" [EMAIL PROTECTED] kirjoitti: On Saturday 19 July 2008 21:58:09 Robert Millan wrote: > On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 10:34:46AM -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote: > > [...] We could support a setting such as "set menuwrap=1" which > > would enable this feature for users who care about i

Re: menu loop (patch)

2008-07-19 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 01:31:55 +0200 Carles Pina i Estany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > On Jul/19/2008, Isaac Dupree wrote: > > Carles Pina i Estany wrote: > >> fast check in KDE: it's looping > >> > >> Also, Iceweasel menus are looping here (maybe because it's executed > >> in KDE and

Re: loader modules jumping back to kernel

2008-07-19 Thread Bean
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 7:06 AM, Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyone recalls the reason our loaders had to jump back to kernel (startup.S) > to > do the final part of the load? > > IIRC this causes trouble when the loadee chose an address that precisely > overwrites the loader, whi

Re: menu loop (patch)

2008-07-19 Thread Isaac Dupree
Carles Pina i Estany wrote: Hello, On Jul/19/2008, Isaac Dupree wrote: Carles Pina i Estany wrote: fast check in KDE: it's looping Also, Iceweasel menus are looping here (maybe because it's executed in KDE and there is some GTK Widget with a different behaviour? I have no idea) GTK menubar-me

Re: menu loop (patch)

2008-07-19 Thread Carles Pina i Estany
Hello, On Jul/19/2008, Isaac Dupree wrote: > Carles Pina i Estany wrote: >> fast check in KDE: it's looping >> >> Also, Iceweasel menus are looping here (maybe because it's executed >> in KDE and there is some GTK Widget with a different behaviour? I have >> no idea) > > GTK menubar-menus are loo

Re: menu loop (patch)

2008-07-19 Thread Isaac Dupree
Carles Pina i Estany wrote: fast check in KDE: it's looping Also, Iceweasel menus are looping here (maybe because it's executed in KDE and there is some GTK Widget with a different behaviour? I have no idea) GTK menubar-menus are looping for me. But I'm not sure about menus that consist of s

loader modules jumping back to kernel

2008-07-19 Thread Robert Millan
Anyone recalls the reason our loaders had to jump back to kernel (startup.S) to do the final part of the load? IIRC this causes trouble when the loadee chose an address that precisely overwrites the loader, which is garanteed to happen when GRUB is loading itself, AFAICT. -- Robert Millan I k

Re: menu loop (patch)

2008-07-19 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:06:40 +0200 Carles Pina i Estany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > On Jul/19/2008, Colin D Bennett wrote: > > On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:40:43 +0200 > > Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:22:27PM +0200, Carles Pina i Estany >

Re: menu loop (patch)

2008-07-19 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 12:06:40AM +0200, Carles Pina i Estany wrote: > > > > This would be no problem at all; it's essentially identical to how the > > text mode menu from normal.mod works. It could go either way, and > > certainly would be easy to make it a setting in the theme file (or more >

Re: menu loop (patch)

2008-07-19 Thread Carles Pina i Estany
Hi, On Jul/19/2008, Robert Millan wrote: > On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 07:21:34PM +0200, Carles Pina i Estany wrote: > > > I'm not sure if this is intentional. Size is not important in this > > > part of the code, but in other UI menus (e.g. Iceweasel or GNOME) I > > > > fast check in KDE: it's loo

Re: menu loop (patch)

2008-07-19 Thread Carles Pina i Estany
Hello, On Jul/19/2008, Colin D Bennett wrote: > On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:40:43 +0200 > Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:22:27PM +0200, Carles Pina i Estany wrote: > > > I'm a Grub user (thanks for your nice work!) and I always wanted to > > > have a menu t

ReleasePlanning page on wiki

2008-07-19 Thread Felix Zielcke
Just talked with Robert on IRC about it. The ReleasePlanning page on wiki is "a bit" unmaintained The estime date for 1.96 release is 2006-11-04 but it was actually released 2008-02-03 and now you are even talking about 1.97 which isn't listed there So I'll suggest to remove it, if nobody is ab

Re: Next release?

2008-07-19 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 10:16:23PM +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > > Which cases are there that can't be fixed by using UUIDs? > > In any case where UUIDs are not used. > > I am totally against ripping off device.map. Pavel's idea is too idealistic, > and that regresses the flexibility. I do

Re: menu loop (patch)

2008-07-19 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Saturday 19 July 2008 21:58:09 Robert Millan wrote: > On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 10:34:46AM -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote: > > [...] We could support a setting such as "set menuwrap=1" which > > would enable this feature for users who care about it. > > Isn't this a bit overkill? The time spent ad

Re: subversion repository structure

2008-07-19 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Thursday 17 July 2008 21:10:11 Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 21:59 -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote: > > > If we're using branches, I suggest the following layout: > > > > > > branches > > >grub-legacy > > > trunk > > > tags > > > grub-0.97 > > > grub-1.96 > > > ... > > > > >

Re: Next release?

2008-07-19 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Saturday 19 July 2008 17:06:24 Robert Millan wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 01:32:18AM +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > > On Wednesday 16 July 2008 01:21:57 Pavel Roskin wrote: > > > On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 01:15 +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > > > > OK. Then how do you install GRUB into (h

Re: bug-grub

2008-07-19 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 11:58:26AM -0400, Gregg Levine wrote: > > Hello! > Why I am inclined to think is that the Bug-Grub list should be allowed > to continue for as long as there are available binary blobs and source > code ones for the original Grub-Legacy. But we don't really provide support

Re: menu loop (patch)

2008-07-19 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 10:34:46AM -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote: > > [...] We could support a setting such as "set menuwrap=1" which > would enable this feature for users who care about it. Isn't this a bit overkill? The time spent adding this config option vastly exceeds any time that could be

Re: menu loop (patch)

2008-07-19 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 07:21:34PM +0200, Carles Pina i Estany wrote: > > I'm not sure if this is intentional. Size is not important in this > > part of the code, but in other UI menus (e.g. Iceweasel or GNOME) I > > fast check in KDE: it's looping > > Also, Iceweasel menus are looping here (may

Re: menu loop (patch)

2008-07-19 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:40:43 +0200 Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:22:27PM +0200, Carles Pina i Estany wrote: > > > > Hello, > > Carles! Que n'és de petit el món ;-) > > > I'm a Grub user (thanks for your nice work!) and I always wanted to > > have a menu

Re: menu loop (patch)

2008-07-19 Thread Carles Pina i Estany
Hello, On Jul/19/2008, Robert Millan wrote: > On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:22:27PM +0200, Carles Pina i Estany wrote: > > > > Hello, > > Carles! Que n'és de petit el món ;-) exacte! :-) > > I'm a Grub user (thanks for your nice work!) and I always wanted to have > > a menu that "loops". Like,

Re: bug-grub

2008-07-19 Thread Gregg Levine
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 10:06 AM, Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Marco and I had an interesting discussion about bug-grub today: > > 15:54 < marco_g> nyu: Actually, I rarely look at the BTS > 15:54 < marco_g> The list is a better way to process patches, IMO. > 15:55 < nyu> mar

Re: menu loop (patch)

2008-07-19 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:22:27PM +0200, Carles Pina i Estany wrote: > > Hello, Carles! Que n'és de petit el món ;-) > I'm a Grub user (thanks for your nice work!) and I always wanted to have > a menu that "loops". Like, if you press down and you are in the last > option it goes to the first o

Re: [PATCH] Simplify target and platform checks

2008-07-19 Thread Robert Millan
Thanks, this was really needed. I hope it's less of a mess now. On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 12:50:42PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > ChangeLog: > > * configure.ac: Default to efi platform for x86_64-apple. Allow > powerpc64 CPU, default to ieee1275 platform for it. Split CPU > ad

device.map (Re: Next release?)

2008-07-19 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:08:57PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 07:11 -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote: > > > > That's a very advanced setup. I actually cannot imagine why anyone > > > would use different boot and root drives. Well, maybe the boot drive > > > has no partitions

Re: Next release?

2008-07-19 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 01:32:18AM +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > On Wednesday 16 July 2008 01:21:57 Pavel Roskin wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 01:15 +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > > > OK. Then how do you install GRUB into (hd1) in a development machine, > > > which is (hd0) in a booting

generic BIOS-less boot (Re: [PATCH] New x86_64 EFI patch)

2008-07-19 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 02:05:13AM +0800, Bean wrote: > > Hi, > > Here are the information gathered in real mode: > > memory map information > video information > monitor information (edid) > hard disk information > perhaps more > > The first two can be retrieved in grub, others are optional, k

Re: [PATCH] Loading windows in macbook

2008-07-19 Thread Bean
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 10:29 PM, Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:23:10AM +0800, Bean wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> If no one objects, I'd commit this soon. > > Did you test in the situations: > > - core.img is load by grub legacy > - core.img is load by grub legacy

Re: [PATCH] Loading windows in macbook

2008-07-19 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:23:10AM +0800, Bean wrote: > > Hi, > > If no one objects, I'd commit this soon. Did you test in the situations: - core.img is load by grub legacy - core.img is load by grub legacy with apple keyboard patch (e.g. the version in debian) - core.img is load by g

Re: grub-probe detects ext4 wronly as ext2

2008-07-19 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 08:36:13PM +0200, Javier Martín wrote: > > >grub_disk_read (disk, 1 * 2, 0, sizeof (struct grub_ext2_sblock), > > >(char *) &data->sblock); > > >if (grub_errno) > > > -goto fail; > > > +EXT2_DRIVER_MOUNT_FAIL("could not read the superblock

bug-grub

2008-07-19 Thread Robert Millan
Hi, Marco and I had an interesting discussion about bug-grub today: 15:54 < marco_g> nyu: Actually, I rarely look at the BTS 15:54 < marco_g> The list is a better way to process patches, IMO. 15:55 < nyu> marco_g: bug-grub is rotting 15:55 < nyu> we should really consider a list merge 15:55 < ma