Re: 16-bit bootloader support?

2009-10-07 Thread Bogdan
Most probably the developers of GRUB will say that this is useless but did anyone think of adding 16-bit protected mode support to the Multiboot specification and to GRUB? Cheers, Bogdan ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://li

Re: [GITGRUB] New menu interface (implementation)

2009-10-07 Thread Bean
Hi, Update: Rename position to extend, values are: first: extend the first child widget (near) all: extend all children widgets last: extend the last child widget (far), this is default value if not set For example: direction = left_to_right extend = all Add style support, each widget has style

Re: [GITGRUB] New menu interface (implementation)

2009-10-07 Thread Bean
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 5:13 AM, Michal Suchanek wrote: > 2009/10/7 Michal Suchanek : >> 2009/10/7 Bean : >>> On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Michal Suchanek wrote: This might make switching the direction of a panel more difficult but there may be other issues. Either way the method with

[PATCH] Fail gracefuly when attempting to load 64-bit kFreeBSD on IA32 CPU

2009-10-07 Thread Robert Millan
-- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all." 2009-10-07 Robert Millan Fail gracefuly when attempting t

Re: [GITGRUB] New menu interface (implementation)

2009-10-07 Thread Michal Suchanek
2009/10/7 Michal Suchanek : > 2009/10/7 Bean : >> On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Michal Suchanek wrote: >>> This might make switching the direction of a panel more difficult but >>> there may be other issues. Either way the method with margin does not >>> work either. >> >> Hi, >> >> The latest v

Re: 16-bit bootloader support?

2009-10-07 Thread Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
Gabe Black wrote: > > So I have a real-time OS named Pharlap that has a 16-bit bootloader > that ends up switching to 32-bit protected mode and loads the OS. I > think it relies on the first sector of the partition being loaded and > execution simply started - but in real-mode. > Why do you need r

Re: 16-bit bootloader support?

2009-10-07 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Mittwoch, den 07.10.2009, 14:26 -0500 schrieb Gabe Black: > > So I have a real-time OS named Pharlap that has a 16-bit bootloader > that ends up switching to 32-bit protected mode and loads the OS. I > think it relies on the first sector of the partition being loaded and > execution simply sta

16-bit bootloader support?

2009-10-07 Thread Gabe Black
So I have a real-time OS named Pharlap that has a 16-bit bootloader that ends up switching to 32-bit protected mode and loads the OS. I think it relies on the first sector of the partition being loaded and execution simply started - but in real-mode. Is there any way to have grub do this (leg

Grub doesn't fire up /dev/md0 raid1

2009-10-07 Thread daniel . stender
Hi guys, I've bought a new set of harddisk and build up a fresh raid1 /dev/md0, tarballed my old fileystem to that, made chroot from a LiveCD here and made grub-install and update-initramfs (did: mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev & -t proc /proc /mnt/proc) - everything works without errors but Gr

Re: Handling multiple cores by GRUB

2009-10-07 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Mittwoch, den 07.10.2009, 19:22 +0530 schrieb Swapnil Pimpale: > Hi All, > > I am trying to understand the grub code (GRUB-0.97). GRUB Legacy is dead for us. But your questions also apply to GRUB 2 so I answer them. > I have a specific query regarding SMP systems. How are multiple cores > ha

Handling multiple cores by GRUB

2009-10-07 Thread Swapnil Pimpale
*Hi All, I am trying to understand the grub code (GRUB-0.97). I have a specific query regarding SMP systems. How are multiple cores handled by grub? Are multiple cores active in the grub initially or only one core is active when GRUB takes charge from the BIOS? Also, can anyone suggest any tools

Re: [GITGRUB] New menu interface (implementation)

2009-10-07 Thread Michal Suchanek
2009/10/7 Bean : > On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Michal Suchanek wrote: >> This might make switching the direction of a panel more difficult but >> there may be other issues. Either way the method with margin does not >> work either. > > Hi, > > The latest version should work now, although there

Re: [GITGRUB] New menu interface (implementation)

2009-10-07 Thread Bean
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Michal Suchanek wrote: > This might make switching the direction of a panel more difficult but > there may be other issues. Either way the method with margin does not > work either. Hi, The latest version should work now, although there is a small issue, the margi

Re: [GITGRUB] New menu interface (implementation)

2009-10-07 Thread Bean
Hi, Update: Support align in both direction, for example, this works now: screen { direction = left_to_right position = center panel { valign = extend halign = extend } panel { valign = extend halign = extend } } } The distributed of extra space is based on direction and position: di

Re: [GITGRUB] New menu interface (implementation)

2009-10-07 Thread Michal Suchanek
2009/10/7 Bean : > On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 6:16 AM, Michal Suchanek wrote: >> 2009/10/6 Bean : >>> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Michal Suchanek >>> wrote: >> I think there are these common uses for borders: - line border in graphics, box drawing char border in text  T