Using GRUB2 to access/change GRUB legacy partitions

2010-05-18 Thread Philip Rhoades
People, I have a Gateway LT30 netbook that I am using for on the road that does everything I want: - WiFi - Broadband Wireless with Fedora 13 - except: - sound input is a problem (maybe it is a faulty microphone but I am not sure - F13 is a bit slow on this little computer so I have

Re: Using GRUB2 to access/change GRUB legacy partitions

2010-05-18 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Philip Rhoades wrote: People, I have a Gateway LT30 netbook that I am using for on the road that does everything I want: - WiFi - Broadband Wireless with Fedora 13 - except: - sound input is a problem (maybe it is a faulty microphone but I am not sure - F13 is a bit slow on this

GRUB2 facility to boot ISOs?

2010-05-18 Thread Philip Rhoades
People, I started this thread quite a while ago (I have asked LQ why it has another user's name on it): http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/booting-of-raw-iso-from-grub-lilo-though-preferably-grub-367901/ but haven't ever gotten a workable response. I realise that ISOs

Re: GRUB2 facility to boot ISOs?

2010-05-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 05:12:17PM +1000, Philip Rhoades wrote: I started this thread quite a while ago (I have asked LQ why it has another user's name on it): http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/booting-of-raw-iso-from-grub-lilo-though-preferably-grub-367901/ but

Re: Using efi image on USB stick

2010-05-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 11:48:12PM +0200, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: Thanks to Seth Goldberg's and Jordan Uggla's testing it was discovered how to make same iso bootable on EFI as both cdrom and usb stick. For this it's needed in addition to el-torito to add a partition table

Re: Using efi image on USB stick

2010-05-18 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Colin Watson wrote: On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 11:48:12PM +0200, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: Thanks to Seth Goldberg's and Jordan Uggla's testing it was discovered how to make same iso bootable on EFI as both cdrom and usb stick. For this it's needed in addition to

Re: Using efi image on USB stick

2010-05-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 01:25:10PM +0200, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: Colin Watson wrote: On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 11:48:12PM +0200, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: Thanks to Seth Goldberg's and Jordan Uggla's testing it was discovered how to make same iso

btrfs-probe branch

2010-05-18 Thread Colin Watson
I've pushed sftp://bzr.sv.gnu.org/srv/bzr/grub/branches/btrfs-probe/ (world-readable: 'bzr get http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/grub/branches/btrfs-probe/') to handle probing single-device btrfs filesystems. I'm not going to pretend that this is anything other than a hack, but it is reasonably well

Re: btrfs-probe branch

2010-05-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 01:17:24PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: I've done basic testing, but would appreciate testing from others as well. For those who don't want to bother checking it out from revision control, the patch follows. It's against trunk, but should apply with only a little bit of

Re: Using efi image on USB stick

2010-05-18 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Colin Watson wrote: I don't know how well BIOSes handle MBR partition tables on CD-ROMs. According to ECMA-119 (aka ISO 9660) the first 32 kB of an image are System Area with arbitrary custom content. El Torito specs mention that this area may contain a bootable disk image. (Figure 1, case

Re: Migrations to xorriso

2010-05-18 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i sent this message 4 hours ago but it did not show up yet. So i send it again on the risk to produce a duplicate. While my local bzr upgrade problems still persist i can view grub-mkrescue.in at

Re: btrfs-probe branch

2010-05-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 01:17:24PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: (Vladimir cited a rumour to the effect that libblkid may be able to handle this, but I haven't been able to find any evidence of it knowing how to deal with mount points at all. We can always revisit this later.) Scott James

Re: Using efi image on USB stick

2010-05-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 02:44:09PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Colin Watson wrote: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Features/UEFI : Many BIOS implementations, ... do not correctly handle the multiple El-Torito boot blocks El Torito specs (of 1995) talk of BIOS with Single

Re: GRUB2 facility to boot ISOs?

2010-05-18 Thread Frombenny
Here's an example to launch an iso of gpartedlivecd from Grub2. I always add it on my 40_custom file : menuentry ISO Live - GParted Live { insmod loopback insmod iso9660 set isofile=/iso/gparted-live-0.5.2-1.iso loopback loop (hd0,5)$isofile set gfxpayload=800x600x16, 800x600 linux

Re: Migrations to xorriso

2010-05-18 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, while my local bzr upgrade problems still persist i can view grub-mkrescue.in at https://code.launchpad.net/~vcs-imports/grub/grub2-bzr xorriso -pathspecs on -as mkisofs I would make this xorriso -report_about HINT -as mkisofs -graft-points Option -report_about HINT will reduce

[PATCH] GRUB script shell expansion for *

2010-05-18 Thread BVK Chaitanya
Hi, Attached patch adds support for path name expansion for * in grub-script. So, we can now use *, (*,msdos*), */boot/grub/*.mod, etc. in grub scripts. It is available in people/bvk/shell-expansion branch. -- bvk.chaitanya # Bazaar merge directive format 2 (Bazaar 0.90) # revision_id:

grub2, pxe, and default boot

2010-05-18 Thread Mahlon E. Smith
Hey all! New to the list, and fairly new to Grub2. I've got about 400+ machines as part of a farm. They are re-imaged routinely on demand, each image a different preset for the role it needs to play (even swapping OS at times.) Traditionally, we used pxelinux to image this stuff remotely. I

Re: [PATCH]add supporting second super block of nilfs2

2010-05-18 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Jiro SEKIBA wrote: Hi, This is a patch to support second super block of nilfs2. It will use the second super block when first one is accidentally collapsed or not synced properly. Is it limited to only 2 blocks? NILFS has redundant super blocks. Those are identical if unmounted

Re: grub2, pxe, and default boot

2010-05-18 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Mahlon E. Smith wrote: sh:grub ls -lh Device hd0: Filesystem type pxefs uh oh Upgrade -- Regards Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Grub-devel mailing list

[PATCH] Shift command support to GRUB script

2010-05-18 Thread BVK Chaitanya
Hi, Attached patch adds shift cmd support to grub-script. -- bvk.chaitanya # Bazaar merge directive format 2 (Bazaar 0.90) # revision_id: bvk.gro...@gmail.com-20100512121649-kssucchekpggnms0 # target_branch: ../cmdlist/ # testament_sha1: fcbd7e7ab663a4edf0114e8dc1fbc33fb006c78e # timestamp:

Kiss to Grub2

2010-05-18 Thread stets-erreichbar
Hello,dear Grub2 developer team. I'm just a linux userand a little afraid of the current GRUB2 development.Please keep an eye on the KISS ("Keep it simple,stupid") principle. With that I mean, that a user should be ableto configure and use the bootloader easily without having toread tons of

Re: grub2, pxe, and default boot

2010-05-18 Thread Mahlon E. Smith
On Tue, May 18, 2010, Vladimir '??-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: Upgrade Thanks for the speedy reply, Vladimir. I realized a little bit late that I had neglected to mention what version I was using. (1.97.2). I'll try 1.98 and see how it goes! -- Mahlon E. Smith

Re: Are BSD partitions not supported?

2010-05-18 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 6:24 PM, C. P. Ghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote: is support for BSD partitions (or maybe ufs2) broken in grub2 (1.98)? No replies so far? Could a developer *please* have a closer look at this? TIA, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/

Re: Are BSD partitions not supported?

2010-05-18 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
C. P. Ghost wrote: On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 6:24 PM, C. P. Ghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote: is support for BSD partitions (or maybe ufs2) broken in grub2 (1.98)? No replies so far? Could a developer *please* have a closer look at this? Your mail is quite long and looks like a

Re: Are BSD partitions not supported?

2010-05-18 Thread C. P. Ghost
2010/5/18 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko phco...@gmail.com: C. P. Ghost wrote: On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 6:24 PM, C. P. Ghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote: is support for BSD partitions (or maybe ufs2) broken in grub2 (1.98)? No replies so far? Could a developer *please* have a closer look

Re: Are BSD partitions not supported?

2010-05-18 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
C. P. Ghost wrote: 2010/5/18 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko phco...@gmail.com: C. P. Ghost wrote: On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 6:24 PM, C. P. Ghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote: is support for BSD partitions (or maybe ufs2) broken in grub2 (1.98)? No replies so

Re: Are BSD partitions not supported?

2010-05-18 Thread C. P. Ghost
2010/5/18 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko phco...@gmail.com: This bsdlabel has 2 strangenesses. First one is seen in your log:  a:   497936       16    unused        0     0 In other words for some strange reason it's declared as unused entry slot. Ah, you're right! My mistake. I'll

Re: Are BSD partitions not supported?

2010-05-18 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: C. P. Ghost wrote: 2010/5/18 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko phco...@gmail.com: C. P. Ghost wrote: On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 6:24 PM, C. P. Ghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote: is support for BSD