Re: escape strings in grub.cfg

2010-04-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 10:10:15PM +0100, Carles Pina i Estany wrote: > Last weekend, the Asturian team found a bug in Grub. Thanks for the > debugging. The string that appears in grub.cfg for "Loading the initram" > in Asturian is "Cargando'l discu RAM inicial...". So grub.cfg looks > like: >

"standard" for loop bootable iso images.

2010-04-11 Thread Jordan Uggla
Super GRUB2 disk 1.98s1 will include an option that will look for loop bootable iso files in /boot-isos/ on all devices and, for supported distributions, present a menu allowing you to boot from them. Currently the lua script that does this has to search for specific files on the iso to try to gues

[PATCH] Compressed modules

2010-04-11 Thread Szymon Janc
Hello, Attached patch adds support for compressing modules (and locales) with gzip or xz. /boot/grub size is reduced ~45-55%. I haven't done any real performance tests but here is short summary from virtualbox (no gfxmenu and no unicode font) - time measured start after grub_machine_init() an

Re: [PATCH] support for xz compression

2010-04-11 Thread Szymon Janc
Dnia czwartek 08 kwiecień 2010 o 23:55:28 Szymon Janc napisał(a): > Hello, > > New version with various fixes, most noticable : seek support, respect not > easly seekable flag, BCJ support. Attached is a small fix for xzio read to act in grub way, not posix like. -- Szymon K. Janc szy...@janc.

Re: How to prepare an ISO 9660 CD for booting via GRUB ?

2010-04-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 02:56:37PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > /usr/include/sys/cygwin.h:typedef unsigned long __uid32_t; > > So you need to use %lu or %lx on cygwin. > > Ahum. > Although "(int)" would technically suffice and > "(unsigned long)" would suffice for all known > cases, i ponder w

Re: Update builds broken

2010-04-11 Thread Michal Suchanek
2010/4/9 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko : > Michal Suchanek wrote: >> Hello >> >> When the source is updated rebuilding grub fails. >> >> The build descends into the source directory (..) to remake something >> but fails nonetheless. >> >> Either these rules to descend into source directory

Re: How to prepare an ISO 9660 CD for booting via GRUB ?

2010-04-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > I think what you should check for is iconv.h since this missing header > caused compilation problem. I have become quite radical and make a test compilation and linking of all <*.h> in libisofs/util.c and the basic iconv functions. If that fails, then ./configure aborts after reporting. Th

Re: How to prepare an ISO 9660 CD for booting via GRUB ?

2010-04-11 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > many thanks for testing xorriso in new > situations. > > > >> 1) It tries to build even if no iconv is present >> > > The tests in configure.ac resp. acinclude.m4 > are too lax, obviously. They aim for finding > out whether one needs -liconv or not. But they

Re: [PATCH] Font antialiasing v2

2010-04-11 Thread Michal Suchanek
2010/4/9 Colin D Bennett : > On Fri, 09 Apr 2010 19:54:07 +0200 > Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > >> Evgeny Kolesnikov wrote: >> > On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 22:23 +0200, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' >> > Serbinenko wrote: >> > >> >> +#define FONT_FORMAT_STORAGE_PACK_MASK 0x0F >> >> +#defi

Re: How to prepare an ISO 9660 CD for booting via GRUB ?

2010-04-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, many thanks for testing xorriso in new situations. > 1) It tries to build even if no iconv is present The tests in configure.ac resp. acinclude.m4 are too lax, obviously. They aim for finding out whether one needs -liconv or not. But they don't assure that iconv() works. I will have to mak