Re: RFC: 1.97 roadmap

2009-08-11 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 07:10:12PM +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Robert Millan wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I think it's time we begin the discussion on GRUB 1.97.  What do we want to > > see in it, and a rough schedule.  1.97 is meant to be a point re

Re: [RFT,PATCH] Move embedding to appropriate partmap files

2009-08-11 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 03:33:13PM +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > Hello. A bug was filed that embedding code in grub-setup.c was > ignoring partmap metadata which could cause its overwriting. To avoid > usage of metadata and because of upcoming sunpc embedding support I > propose to

Re: [PATCH] Improve handling of "keep" in gfxpayload

2009-08-11 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 05:18:42PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > (It's not actually quite true that vid_mode isn't used *at all* with the > 32-bit boot protocol; it's still saved for use with ACPI sleep.) In this case, I suppose we should set it. Currently we don't, because I was under the impr

[RFT,PATCH] Move embedding to appropriate partmap files

2009-08-11 Thread Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
Hello. A bug was filed that embedding code in grub-setup.c was ignoring partmap metadata which could cause its overwriting. To avoid usage of metadata and because of upcoming sunpc embedding support I propose to move embedding to partmap/*.c. For this I devised an interface which enables future reu

what is equivalent grub2 entry of this grub-legacy

2009-08-11 Thread J.Bakshi
Hello list, I am trying to convert one grub-legacy entry to grub2. The legacy is ``` title Console (Boots to the shell)\n Normal vga, verbose kernel messages, and\n no automatic graphical environment. kernel /pmagic/bzImage noapic load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk