Re: Any tutorial to configure grub menu interface ?

2009-11-14 Thread J. Bakshi
On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:58:09 +0100 Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > Bean wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 1:02 PM, J. Bakshi > > wrote: > >> On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:52:41 +0100 > >> Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > >> > >> > >>> J. Bakshi wrote: > >>> > On Wed, 28

Re: [PATCH] Add -nostdinc to TARGET_CFLAGS

2009-11-14 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Mittwoch, den 04.11.2009, 11:48 +0100 schrieb Felix Zielcke: > Am Donnerstag, den 29.10.2009, 11:36 +0100 schrieb Robert Millan: > > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:14:33AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > > > > > > It appears that -nostdinc also excludes GCC internal header directory (for > > > e.g. s

Re: [PATCH] Re: Bug in read_handler_list (autoloading) ???

2009-11-14 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Samstag, den 14.11.2009, 16:35 +0100 schrieb Robert Millan: > On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 11:43:52PM +0100, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > > Felix Zielcke wrote: > > > Am Donnerstag, den 12.11.2009, 21:46 +0530 schrieb BVK: > > > > > >> Valgrind log is attached. It also reported invalid f

Re: [Etherboot-developers] gPXE and GRUB2

2009-11-14 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 07:03:51PM +0100, Thomas Miletich wrote: > On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Robert Millan wrote: > > If he followed the instructions in http://grub.enbug.org/PXEBOOT it is > > to be expected that GRUB only starts in rescue mode, because that's what > > the selection of modu

Re: [PATCH] Unification of grub-mkrescue

2009-11-14 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 03:35:29PM +0100, Felix Zielcke wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 12.11.2009, 13:12 +0100 schrieb Robert Millan: > > On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 11:42:47AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > > > > and support for floppy > > > > images. > > > > > > I didn't consider this critical, but I'm

Re: [Etherboot-developers] gPXE and GRUB2

2009-11-14 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 04:57:44PM +0100, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > > I think the fastest way to make GRUB2 use gPXE's networking features > > is to use both of them as they currently are. GRUB2 can be integrated > > as a embedded image into gPXE. gPXE boots, does a DHCP requests, > >

Re: gate A20 and i386-qemu port

2009-11-14 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 04:38:22PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > > Following code can check A20: > > *((volatile grub_uint8_t *) 0x20) = 0; > > *((volatile grub_uint8_t *) 0x30) = 1; > > if (*((volatile grub_uint8_t *) 0x20)) > > grub_printf ("Expect bugs\n"); > > else > > grub_prin

Re: [Etherboot-developers] gPXE and GRUB2

2009-11-14 Thread Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
Thomas Miletich wrote: > Hello > > On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 12:28 AM, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko > wrote: > >> Hello, all. I'm currently importing gPXE into grub-extras to allow a >> tighter interraction and integration. I would like to discuss >> collaboration between our two projects. >>

Re: gPXE and GRUB2

2009-11-14 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 12:28:01AM +0100, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > 3) Add a secondary target to gPXE to produce series of GRUB modules. Due > to big differences between build systems this may be problematic and > result in frequent breakage >From a distributor POV, option 3 is diffic

Re: gate A20 and i386-qemu port

2009-11-14 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 01:48:00PM +0100, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > Robert Millan wrote: > > I'm wondering how come the i386-qemu port works if none of its > > initialization code takes into account gate A20. Does this > > mean it's supposed to be already disabled in initial CPU state

Re: [PATCH] Re: Bug in read_handler_list (autoloading) ???

2009-11-14 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 11:43:52PM +0100, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > Felix Zielcke wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, den 12.11.2009, 21:46 +0530 schrieb BVK: > > > >> Valgrind log is attached. It also reported invalid free for the same place. > >> > >> BTW, valgrind is run as > >> > >> s

Re: Booting TrueCrypt Windows Hard Drive

2009-11-14 Thread Duboucher Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Felix Zielcke a écrit : > MBR would be (hd1) or (hd0) not (hd1,1) > > But maybe it's really like Vladimir thinks and Truecrypt loader and > windows bootloader are different in this case. > If you have a 'pro' version of Windows Seven, you can give a

Re: Booting TrueCrypt Windows Hard Drive

2009-11-14 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Samstag, den 14.11.2009, 13:22 +0100 schrieb Johannes Bauer: > Felix Zielcke schrieb: > > > On launchpad someone made a bugreport where removing the search and > > drivemap commands from the generated Win 7 menu entry by os-prober > > breaks booting it. > > So I removed drivemap command for Vis

Re: Booting TrueCrypt Windows Hard Drive

2009-11-14 Thread Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
Johannes Bauer wrote: > >Did you try without drivemap? > > > Yup. TrueCrypt immediately complains: > > TrueCrypt Boot Loader > Loader Damaged! Use Rescue Disk: [blabla] > > There are 2 kind of booters: Type (a) always try to boot from first disk. They need drivemap. Type (b) respect the disk

Re: gate A20 and i386-qemu port

2009-11-14 Thread Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
Robert Millan wrote: > I'm wondering how come the i386-qemu port works if none of its > initialization code takes into account gate A20. Does this > mean it's supposed to be already disabled in initial CPU state, > and only enabled by BIOS? > > Or maybe the code only works by chance and would brea

Re: Roadmap for LUA support in GRUB

2009-11-14 Thread Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
Bean wrote: > On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 4:22 AM, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko > wrote: > >>> And as they have two revision system, this make >>> it difficult to track previous bug. For example, it's hard to tell >>> which revision of grub-extra can compile with which main stream >>> revision. >>

Re: Booting TrueCrypt Windows Hard Drive

2009-11-14 Thread Johannes Bauer
Felix Zielcke schrieb: > On launchpad someone made a bugreport where removing the search and > drivemap commands from the generated Win 7 menu entry by os-prober > breaks booting it. > So I removed drivemap command for Vista and 7. > It wouldn't make much sense if the search line would break it.

Re: Booting TrueCrypt Windows Hard Drive

2009-11-14 Thread Johannes Bauer
Duboucher Thomas schrieb: > I suggest chainloading from bootmgr to Grub2, instead of the opposite. > You should give a try and it's not difficult to do. Actually, I'd rather not. The reason for this is that the Linux hard drive is my productive drive and the Windows is only of secondary use

gate A20 and i386-qemu port

2009-11-14 Thread Robert Millan
I'm wondering how come the i386-qemu port works if none of its initialization code takes into account gate A20. Does this mean it's supposed to be already disabled in initial CPU state, and only enabled by BIOS? Or maybe the code only works by chance and would break unexpectedly in specific situ

Re: Roadmap for LUA support in GRUB

2009-11-14 Thread Bean
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 4:22 AM, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: >> And as they have two revision system, this make >> it difficult to track previous bug. For example, it's hard to tell >> which revision of grub-extra can compile with which main stream >> revision. > It's always latest-to-lat