Re: PXEgrub development on grub2

2009-09-11 Thread Seth Goldberg
Real hardware drivers should provide much better functionality than PXE (other firmwares may do better, though). No argument there. For Solaris, the PXE firmware has proven reliable enough for us not to investigate other alternatives. Sure, there are ranges of PXE packet throughput betwee

Re: PXEgrub development on grub2

2009-09-11 Thread Michal Suchanek
2009/9/11 Seth Goldberg : > Hi, > > Quoting Robert Millan, who wrote the following on Fri, 11 Sep 2009: > >> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 02:17:56PM -0700, Seth Goldberg wrote: >>> > It sounds good. Looks like gPXE should work on EFI. > > I will try to build an image. > Though

Re: [Fwd: Re: Bug#545460: segfault during update of grub-pc package]

2009-09-11 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 14:58 +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote: > > Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. > > 0x080490a8 in probe_raid_level (disk=0x0) at > > /home/work/src/grub2/util/grub-probe.c:94 > > 94if (disk->dev->id != GRUB_DISK_DEVICE_RAID_ID) > > (gdb) bt > > #0 0x080490

Re: install-sh and docs/mdate-sh

2009-09-11 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 16:06 +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 09.09.2009, 15:57 +0200 schrieb Felix Zielcke: > > Is there any reason why we have install-sh and docs/mdate-sh? > > We don't use them anywhere and they're shipped with automake, which > > Okuji doestn't like anyway IIRC We

Re: grub-mkconfig fails on every non i386-pc because of gfxterm/vbe

2009-09-11 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 13:03 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > Pavel, if you could confirm that you're ok with checking for module > existance, maybe Felix' patch can be made simpler. Generally, I would prefer not to rely on the existence of modules, as it's a poor substitute for the knowledge whether

Re: [PATCH] fix an infinite loop with a corrupted pc partition table

2009-09-11 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 17:40 +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > > I would prefer something simpler, but if that's not possible, this is better > > than hardcoding a number IMO. > > > > Unless Pavel has any objection, I think it's ok. > Any problems with this one? No objections. -- Rega

Re: Some ideas about new features of grub

2009-09-11 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 14:56 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 04:48:56PM +0800, Bean wrote: > > > > LUA integration. > > LUA is quite powerful, it's more suitable to do complicated task than > > sh script. For example, we can use it to detect os at runtime, > > implement simple

Re: [PATCH] save_env variable_name=value

2009-09-11 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 17:08 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > Pavel, please comment on this when you can. It seems to me that doing it > in grub-mkconfig would require less ad-hoc code in loadenv.mod and make it > more efficient. I don't see how grub-mkconfig could compensate for a missing feature i

Re: PXEgrub development on grub2

2009-09-11 Thread Seth Goldberg
Hi, Quoting Robert Millan, who wrote the following on Fri, 11 Sep 2009: On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 02:17:56PM -0700, Seth Goldberg wrote: It sounds good. Looks like gPXE should work on EFI. I will try to build an image. Though that doestn't change that pxe.mod is currently only build for i3

Re: Upgrade bug: Misconfiguration of menu.lst in test stage of .97 to GRUB 2 upgrade

2009-09-11 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Freitag, den 11.09.2009, 14:15 -0500 schrieb Christopher Whaley: > Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28.15 > Performing GRUB upgrade with debian installer > > Hey Guys, > > Pardon me if I'm off on the format of this message -new to mailing > lists. > > I performed an upgrade from GRUB v. 97 to GRUB 2

Upgrade bug: Misconfiguration of menu.lst in test stage of .97 to GRUB 2 upgrade

2009-09-11 Thread Christopher Whaley
Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28.15 Performing GRUB upgrade with debian installer Hey Guys, Pardon me if I'm off on the format of this message -new to mailing lists. I performed an upgrade from GRUB v. 97 to GRUB 2 today and was initially stymied by an error the install program made in editing my ori

Re: grub 1.97 in debian ?

2009-09-11 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Freitag, den 11.09.2009, 19:23 +0200 schrieb Felix Zielcke: > Am Freitag, den 11.09.2009, 22:30 +0530 schrieb J. Bakshi: > > Hello list, > > > > When gurub 1.97 likely be appeared in debian testing ( squeeze) branch ? > > > > thanks > > > > Totally wrong list to ask this. > But to answer you

Re: grub 1.97 in debian ?

2009-09-11 Thread J. Bakshi
On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:23:05 +0200 Felix Zielcke wrote: > Am Freitag, den 11.09.2009, 22:30 +0530 schrieb J. Bakshi: > > Hello list, > > > > When gurub 1.97 likely be appeared in debian testing ( squeeze) > > branch ? > > > > thanks > > > > Totally wrong list to ask this. > But to answer your

Re: grub 1.97 in debian ?

2009-09-11 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Freitag, den 11.09.2009, 22:30 +0530 schrieb J. Bakshi: > Hello list, > > When gurub 1.97 likely be appeared in debian testing ( squeeze) branch ? > > thanks > Totally wrong list to ask this. But to answer your question: http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/grub2.html There you can always look up

grub 1.97 in debian ?

2009-09-11 Thread J. Bakshi
Hello list, When gurub 1.97 likely be appeared in debian testing ( squeeze) branch ? thanks ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: [PATCH] 64-bit file sizes in NTFS

2009-09-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 03:14:53PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 08:24:44PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > It probably would, but I don't think anything cares, does it? This data > > structure is purely internal - it isn't read from disk in a way that > > expects structures

Re: [PATCH] Don't try to use help2man when cross-compiling

2009-09-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 03:13:57PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 11:51:04PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > Revised patch follows, also addressing Felix's comment. Is this better? > > Looks fine. Committed, thanks. -- Colin Watson [cj

Re: PXEgrub development on grub2

2009-09-11 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 02:17:56PM -0700, Seth Goldberg wrote: > >>> It sounds good. Looks like gPXE should work on EFI. >>> >>> I will try to build an image. >>> >> >> Though that doestn't change that pxe.mod is currently only build for >> i386-pc and nothing else > > Does anyone have any patches

Re: [PATCH] 64-bit file sizes in NTFS

2009-09-11 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 08:24:44PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 09:17:54PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 05:39:14PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > Index: include/grub/ntfs.h > > > ===

Re: [PATCH] Don't try to use help2man when cross-compiling

2009-09-11 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 11:51:04PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 09:20:19PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 04:37:29PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > Index: configure.ac > > > === > > >