where i can find the GRUB design document

2010-04-17 Thread Bai Shuwei
Hi， ALL： I want to know the GRUB architecture and the source files relations, and want to know more information on GRUB implementation. So does some design documents are avaliable? Thanks ALL Best Regards Bai shuwei -- Love other people, as same as love yourself! Don't think all the time,

Re: where i can find the GRUB design document

2010-04-17 Thread BVK Chaitanya
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Bai Shuwei wrote: > >    I  want to know the GRUB architecture and the source files > relations, and want to know more information on GRUB implementation. > So does some design documents are avaliable? Thanks ALL > There is no definitive design document for GRUB.

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

2010-04-17 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > >> /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 whether i should use >

Re: [PATCH] Fix localedir in Makefile

2010-04-17 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Christian Franke wrote: > Gettext support is not effective for the grub tools (except scripts) > because localedir is not passed to the Makefile. > > Nice spotting. Applied > 2010-04-16 Christian Franke > > * Makefile.in: Add missing localedir setting. > > > >

Re: [PATCH] Fix Cygwin path handling

2010-04-17 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Christian Franke wrote: > The Cywin path handling is broken since > make_system_path_relative_to_its_root() functionality was moved from > the lib script to misc.c. > > This patch should fix this. It reuses the Cygwin specific code from > getroot.c:grub_get_prefix() which apparently is a different

Re: Grub overview/tutorial available

2010-04-17 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Simon Kitching wrote: > Hi All, > > Just FYI, I've written up what I've learned about Grub during the last > few weeks and put it up here: > > http://people.apache.org/~skitching/MineOfInformation/linux/Booting_Linux_on_x86_with_Grub2.html > > This is more detailed than simple "user level", but doe

Re: [PATCH] Fix Cygwin path handling

2010-04-17 Thread Christian Franke
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: Christian Franke wrote: The Cywin path handling is broken since make_system_path_relative_to_its_root() functionality was moved from the lib script to misc.c. This patch should fix this. It reuses the Cygwin specific code from getroot.c:grub_get_

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

2010-04-17 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Vladimir Serbinenko: > efi booting [...] it's basically standard no-emul > eltorito except: > platform_id[0] = 0xef; I assume you mean the Platform ID as of El Torito specs about the Boot Catalog and its Validation Entry. (Chapter 2, figure 2) That should be easy to test. In libisofs/eltorit

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

2010-04-17 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Vladimir Serbinenko: > >> efi booting [...] it's basically standard no-emul >> eltorito except: >> platform_id[0] = 0xef; >> > > I assume you mean the Platform ID as of El Torito > specs about the Boot Catalog and its Validation > Entry. (Chapter 2, figure 2)

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

2010-04-17 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > I attach the patch I used for dirty checks Oh. You already tested. And ? Did it boot ? > > Just yesterday i moved that setting from option > > -b to option -boot-info-table, > Thanks. Even better: i now tested that omitting -boot-info-table really prevents the patcher function. > Why n

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

2010-04-17 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > >> I attach the patch I used for dirty checks >> > > Oh. You already tested. > And ? Did it boot ? > > Yes it booted in qemu-tianocore. >> Why not to determine it [-boot-load-size] from >> file size by default? >> > > Because mkisofs doesn't do that,

Re: NEED_REGISTER_FRAME_INFO can be replaced by -static-libgcc

2010-04-17 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Christian Franke wrote: > Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: >> Christian Franke wrote: >> >>> The *_frame_info symbols are set undefined to force linkage of the >>> libgcc_s shared library or dll. >>> >>> This can be prevented by TARGET_LDFLAGS=-static-libgcc. To build from >>> grub-1

Re: [PATCH] Fix Cygwin path handling

2010-04-17 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Christian Franke wrote: > Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: >> Christian Franke wrote: >> >>> The Cywin path handling is broken since >>> make_system_path_relative_to_its_root() functionality was moved from >>> the lib script to misc.c. >>> >>> This patch should fix this. It reuses th

Re: Grub overview/tutorial available

2010-04-17 Thread Simon Kitching
On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 17:39 +0200, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > Simon Kitching wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Just FYI, I've written up what I've learned about Grub during the last > > few weeks and put it up here: > > > > http://people.apache.org/~skitching/MineOfInformation/linux/Bo

Re: Grub overview/tutorial available

2010-04-17 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
> > I wrote this because in the command list documentation > (http://grub.enbug.org/CommandList), there is reference to a "loopback" > command as a replacement for grub legacy 'device' command, and I can't > see what use that would have in a real grub boot enviroment. > > Retrieving files from