regarding dividing video RAM

2010-02-07 Thread kiran pawar
Hi all, I am working on grub-1.97~beta4. As part of my academic project, I have to divide video RAM so that only half of screen can show the grub and kernel booting display messages. On searching I found that there is parameter like height = 25 and width = 80. But on changing height or width

Re: beep support?

2010-02-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le Wed 03 Feb 2010 00:00:43 +0100, a écrit : > Felix Zielcke, le Tue 02 Feb 2010 15:09:47 +0100, a écrit : > > There's play command in commands/i386/pc/play.c but I still don't know > > what file format it actual plays. > > Ok, reading the source code told me how it works. I'm mo

NEWS updates

2010-02-07 Thread Colin Watson
I took the urge to update NEWS a bit in trunk, with various things I could identify as important from ChangeLog. Omissions are probably just because I didn't understand the change in question, so please fill anything in that I missed! === modified file 'NEWS' --- NEWS2009-12-21 21:15:38 +

Re: [PATCH] --foo bar cmdline argument parsing support for grub-* scripts

2010-02-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 10:42:12AM +0530, BVK Chaitanya wrote: > Attached patch adds support for "--option argument" style command line > parsing. Currently all these script only support "--option=argument" > style. Yes please (note: haven't reviewed the patch in detail), but perhaps it would mak

Re: Build GRUB for UEFI (not EFI), 64 bit

2010-02-07 Thread Arne Schwabe
>>> You need to >>> insmod efi_gop >>> or (for older systems) >>> insmod efi_uga >>> >> With either efi_gop or efi_uga loaded the system simply goes black as >> soon as I use "boot". Any idea or pointers to debugging? >> >> > Try running "videotest" > > isnmod efi_gop followed by vi

Re: On gratuitous modularization

2010-02-07 Thread Christian Franke
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: Christian Franke wrote: Hi Robert, Robert Millan wrote: Please be careful when adding modules. I see that too often new modules are added without any real need to host this code separately. ... kern/disk.c:struct grub_disk_ata_p