Re: [PATCH] unused constants in i386/boot.h

2009-07-12 Thread Yves Blusseau
On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 10:45:43AM +0200, Yves Blusseau wrote: !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN html head /head body bgcolor=#ff text=#00 div class=moz-text-flowed style=font-family: -moz-fixed; font-size: 13px; lang=x- westernHere's the patch to remove

Re: [PATCH] unused constants in i386/boot.h

2009-07-12 Thread Pavel Roskin
Quoting Yves Blusseau bluss...@zetam.org: As long as boot/i386/pc/boot.S has the variables whose offset these macros are describing, I think it's fine to keep them. I'd rather not keep the macros that are not used outside boot.S. They give a wrong impression that somebody somewhere needs

Re: boot.img Fix

2009-07-12 Thread Pavel Roskin
Quoting Robert Millan r...@aybabtu.com: I agree GRUB should be very careful not to destroy potentially valuable data. However, that's not to say FAT install is important. Typically our install doesn't collide or interfere with any filesystem, it's only a few corner cases that do, and IMO we

Re: Some ideas about new features of grub

2009-07-12 Thread Pavel Roskin
Quoting Bean bean12...@gmail.com: IIRC, os-prober is a collection of shell script to detect os, but grub already have them in util/grub.d. This method is based on linux, so you need to enter linux in order to update the menu. On the other hand, lua script generate the menu inside grub, there is

[PATCH] Support graphics output protocol in EFI

2009-07-12 Thread Bean
Hi, MacBooks 5.x supports the new graphics output protocol in UEFI, while the older UGA draw protocol doesn't work anymore. This patch add support for graphics output protocol so that linux loader can get video information correctly. -- Bean diff --git a/include/grub/efi/graphics_output.h

Are you going to Debconf9?

2009-07-12 Thread adrian15 adrian15
Hi, I am adrian15 from Super Grub Disk. I have been quite for a while. I was asking myself if some of you are going to Debconf. I won't mind meeting some of you and learning about grub2 (I am a bit outdated) and maybe try to code some lines. Or just meet someone like _x86, marco_g or nyu face

Re: Grub accessibility

2009-07-12 Thread Pavel Roskin
Quoting Samuel Thibault samuel.thiba...@ens-lyon.org: (sorry phcoder for the duplication) Robert Millan, le Fri 10 Jul 2009 19:22:48 +0200, a écrit : We've made some exceptions, but in general, we'd like to keep the GRUB codebase made entirely of FSF-copyrighted code, or at least code we have

Re: Grub2, ext3 boot/root on LVM on RAID 5

2009-07-12 Thread Wojciech Pyczak
It doesn't work for me either, however it's works with LVM on RAID0/1 (file system doesn't matter). Dnia 2009-07-12, nie o godzinie 16:25 +0200, Patrik Horník pisze: Hello, should booting from ext3 boot/root filesystem installed on LVM volume work with Grub2? LVM is created on top of couple