Re: grub-setup: error: no mapping exists for ... in GRUB2 v1.97.1 on fake (IMSM) RAID

2009-12-28 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Sonntag, den 27.12.2009, 17:50 -0800 schrieb Lapohos Tibor: > Thanks for your reply. > > What the OROM says is that both of my volumes are bootable. > /dev/md126 corresponds to Volume0, and its first partition (ext4) has > the boot flag set. > > My problem is that I cannot get grub2 install

Re: [RFC] Multiboot ammendment: non-VBE video

2009-12-28 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Robert Millan wrote: > On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 05:37:11PM +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > >> Hello. I'm implementing video part of multiboot specification. >> Currently the only defined interface is for providing VBE info. I >> propose following way to set fields if video is non VB

[PATCH] Search hinting support

2009-12-28 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
-- Regards Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko === modified file 'commands/search.c' --- commands/search.c 2009-12-25 23:50:59 + +++ commands/search.c 2009-12-28 13:02:23 + @@ -30,7 +30,8 @@ #include void -FUNC_NAME (const char *key, const char *var, int no_floppy) +FUNC_NAME (con

Re: [PATCH] spaces (label, UUID)

2009-12-28 Thread Carles Pina i Estany
Hi, On Dec/28/2009, Carles Pina i Estany wrote: > This patch should fix a small problem that Vladimir spotted and Committed. -- Carles Pina i Estany http://pinux.info ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mail

Re: [PATCH] Backup old boot sectors before installation

2009-12-28 Thread Isaac Dupree
Zhu Yi wrote: On Fri, 2009-12-25 at 05:21 +0800, Robert Millan wrote: I think making a backup is a fine idea, but I'd rather avoid the "option creep". It doesn't hurt to simply dump the files in /boot/grub/. If user later discovers that valuable data was overwritten, she can figure out how to

Re: [PATCH] grub-probe support for NetBSD

2009-12-28 Thread Grégoire Sutre
Hi, Here is a new version of the patch (the change log remains the same as in the original email). The new version does not attempt to read from a floppy device in grub_util_biosdisk_open. Indeed, on NetBSD, reading from the floppy device (e.g. cat /dev/fd0a) takes a _long_ time to abort wh

Re: [PATCH] Backup old boot sectors before installation

2009-12-28 Thread Zhu Yi
On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 06:04 +0800, Isaac Dupree wrote: > > Option 1~3 requires the recover has the knowledge of the backup file > > format somehow, but a simple dd is enough for option 4. What do you > > think? > > If the partitioning had been changed in the mean time, 4 would overwrite > it with

Re: autogen.sh warnings

2009-12-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Robert Millan wrote: On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 10:20:21AM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Felix Zielcke wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 10.12.2009, 00:05 -0600 schrieb Bruce Dubbs: On the other hand, config.guess is used to get build_cpu and build_os and I don't see that being used at all right now by grub.

Re: [PATCH] Backup old boot sectors before installation

2009-12-28 Thread richardvo...@gmail.com
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Zhu Yi wrote: > On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 06:04 +0800, Isaac Dupree wrote: >> > Option 1~3 requires the recover has the knowledge of the backup file >> > format somehow, but a simple dd is enough for option 4. What do you >> > think? >> >> If the partitioning had been

Re: Roadmap for LUA support in GRUB

2009-12-28 Thread Bruce O. Benson
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Bean wrote: > But no worry, I've created a fork project BURG that contains some > brand-new features, the LUA engine will be added back soon. > Is there a URL for BURG yet? As soon as I see a bootloader that uses Lua as its scripting/config engine, I'm switching

Re: grub.info

2009-12-28 Thread Bruce O. Benson
2009/12/3 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko > > > > I have examined the hierarchy of the manual and it currently has the > > structure below. I also did some research and propose a different > > layout, also shown below. > The current layout of the grub2 manual is actually here: http://gru

Re: grub.info

2009-12-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Bruce O. Benson wrote: I have examined the hierarchy of the manual and it currently has the structure below. I also did some research and propose a different layout, also shown below. The current layout of the grub2 manual is actually here: http://grub.enbug.org/Manual From one Bruce to an

Re: grub.info

2009-12-28 Thread Bruce O. Benson
2009/12/29 Bruce Dubbs > Bruce O. Benson wrote: > > I have examined the hierarchy of the manual and it currently has the structure below. I also did some research and propose a different layout, also shown below. >>> >> The current layout of the grub2 manual is actually here: >>

Re: [PATCH] Backup old boot sectors before installation

2009-12-28 Thread Zhu Yi
On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 11:59 +0800, richardvo...@gmail.com wrote: > > If we decide so, we go back to option 1 (my original > implementation). > > Because the backup file format is not important any more as it is > > totally transparent to the restorers. Am I right? > > Another option would be to st