Re: terminal_input=at_keyboard not working

2011-03-29 Thread Frédéric Boiteux
Le Wed, 23 Mar 2011 20:34:36 +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko a écrit : > Could you try this patch: > === modified file 'grub-core/term/at_keyboard.c' > --- grub-core/term/at_keyboard.c2011-01-08 00:45:57 + > +++ grub-core/term/at_keyboard.c2011-03-23 19:33:57 + > @@

Re: Full documentation for GRUB2

2011-03-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 07:18:02PM -0600, Leslie Rhorer wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > I agree that developers have the *responsibility* to document features > > they add, and I've been trying to encourage this in GRUB where I can. > > However, most of the problem is not new features, but the bac

Re: Full documentation for GRUB2

2011-03-29 Thread Isaac Dupree
On 03/29/11 21:18, Leslie Rhorer wrote: I think a good example of this is the sort order of the items in the boot list. Under GRUB legacy, editing the menu list order was quite simple. I did some significant searching to try to find a way to do this with GRUB 2, but as far as I was able

Re: Full documentation for GRUB2

2011-03-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Leslie Rhorer wrote: I sympathize, but only to a point. No matter how dreary or how daunting the volume of work, it is essential it be done. I agree. I looked into helping do some of the documentation, but found that I just did not know enough of the internals to properly do it.

Re: Full documentation for GRUB2

2011-03-29 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 30.03.2011 03:18, Leslie Rhorer wrote: > On a related note, there does not seem to be any way to associate > the default boot selection with a particular target. To the best of my > ability to tell, one may only specify a specific entry number within the > boot target list, not a specific

RE: Full documentation for GRUB2

2011-03-29 Thread Leslie Rhorer
> -Original Message- > From: help-grub-bounces+lrhorer=satx.rr@gnu.org [mailto:help-grub- > bounces+lrhorer=satx.rr@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Colin Watson > Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 11:10 AM > To: grub-devel@gnu.org > Cc: help-g...@gnu.org > Subject: Re: Full documentation for GRUB

Re: Out of Memory Error

2011-03-29 Thread richardvo...@gmail.com
> On 03/29/2011 05:48 PM, richardvo...@gmail.com wrote: >> Which SSD?  This sounds rather like the infamous OCZ time warp.  Are >> other changes made to the SSD lost, or only the boot sector? On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Phillip Susi wrote: > What OCZ time warp?  I have an OCZ SSD and don't h

Re: Out of Memory Error

2011-03-29 Thread Jordan Uggla
2011/3/29 Gus Zernial : > Thanks for your reply. First of all, the error is "Out of disk", not > "Out of memory", my bad "Out of disk" is a very different error from "Out of memory". "Out of disk" means that you have a buggy BIOS which can't handle large drives properly. To work around this create

Re: Out of Memory Error

2011-03-29 Thread Phillip Susi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/29/2011 05:48 PM, richardvo...@gmail.com wrote: > Which SSD? This sounds rather like the infamous OCZ time warp. Are > other changes made to the SSD lost, or only the boot sector? What OCZ time warp? I have an OCZ SSD and don't have any troub

Re: Out of Memory Error

2011-03-29 Thread richardvo...@gmail.com
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Gus Zernial wrote: > I've posted my problem to this list before without getting a > solution - also to grub-help and Ubuntu forum(s), no answer - I'm > stumped and would really appreciate help. > > I have Kubuntu 10.10, a custom 2.6.37.1 kernel, and GRUB2. I was on

Re: Out of Memory Error

2011-03-29 Thread Gus Zernial
Thanks for your reply. First of all, the error is "Out of disk", not "Out of memory", my bad > Are you able to see the devices needed for boot if you type > "ls" ? > Also adding --debug-image=all to grub-install would enable > extra debug messages > Regards Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko

Re: RFC: Plan for new "hwmatch" command

2011-03-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 08:58:43PM -0800, Evan Broder wrote: >Based on some off-list discussion, I'd like to try a different > angle for the Lua patches I submitted a week or two ago. For context, > Ubuntu is interested in setting gfxpayload=keep as often as we can in > the next release [1]. Si

Re: Full documentation for GRUB2

2011-03-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 05:19:09PM +0200, Patrick Strasser wrote: > I had a simmilar experience regarding the loopback system - which is by > itself really great. The manual gives a hint of the command, but no > description and no example. I got some working examples from Ubuntu > [ubuntu] and from

Re: [PATCH] Improve documentation of BIOS installation

2011-03-29 Thread richardvo...@gmail.com
> -@strong{Caution:} Be very careful which partition you select!  When GRUB > -finds a BIOS Boot Partition during installation, it will automatically > -overwrite part of it.  Make sure that the partition does not contain any > -other data. +@xref{BIOS installation}, for details on where the core i

Re: Full documentation for GRUB2

2011-03-29 Thread Patrick Strasser
schrieb Treutwein Bernhard am 2011-03-24 16:06: > Hi Bill & Robert, > > [...] >>> Is there some complete official documentation of GRUB2, or is GRUB2 full >>> documentation only in source code?;-) >> >> I think the Grub2 developers would welcome volunteers to help write >> documentation. > > this

Re: grub.enbug.org wiki database dump

2011-03-29 Thread Gregg Levine
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 10:28:45AM -0400, Gregg Levine wrote: >> Which individual are you thinking of? Please explain what you perceive >> here as the problem. > > Gregg, Keshav's mail was sent to a specific individual and CCed to > grub-deve

Re: grub.enbug.org wiki database dump

2011-03-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 10:28:45AM -0400, Gregg Levine wrote: > Which individual are you thinking of? Please explain what you perceive > here as the problem. Gregg, Keshav's mail was sent to a specific individual and CCed to grub-devel. -- Colin Watson [cjwa

Re: [PATCH] Improve documentation of BIOS installation

2011-03-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 02:11:45PM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 29/03/11 13:40, Colin Watson wrote: > > +@node BIOS installation > > +@section BIOS installation > > This is a good summary. Thanks. I've incorporated some feedback from Vladimir and committed this. Vladimir and I disagreed a b

Re: grub.enbug.org wiki database dump

2011-03-29 Thread KESHAV P.R.
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 19:58, Gregg Levine wrote: > On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 4:11 AM, KESHAV P.R. wrote: >> Hi, >>     I am user of grub2 and have edited a few wiki articles. You seem >> to have taken back control of this domain name. Can you make available >> the latest wiki database dump so tha

Re: grub.enbug.org wiki database dump

2011-03-29 Thread Gregg Levine
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 4:11 AM, KESHAV P.R. wrote: > Hi, >     I am user of grub2 and have edited a few wiki articles. YOu seems > to have taken back control of this domain name. Can you make available > the latest wiki database dump so that it can be hosted elsewhere. I am > particularly interes

Re: [PATCH] Improve documentation of BIOS installation

2011-03-29 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 29.03.2011 15:11, Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 29/03/11 13:40, Colin Watson wrote: > >> +@node BIOS installation >> +@section BIOS installation >> > This is a good summary. > > >> +(called by >> +various names, such as the "boot track", "MBR gap", or "embedding area", and >> +which is us

Re: [PATCH] Improve documentation of BIOS installation

2011-03-29 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 29/03/11 13:40, Colin Watson wrote: > +@node BIOS installation > +@section BIOS installation This is a good summary. > +(called by > +various names, such as the "boot track", "MBR gap", or "embedding area", and > +which is usually at least 31 KiB), Maybe mention the original name/reason; "DOS

[PATCH] Improve documentation of BIOS installation

2011-03-29 Thread Colin Watson
With http://grub.enbug.org/BIOS_Boot_Partition being down at the moment, I went to look at what corresponding documentation there was in the manual. There actually was some, written variously by Vladimir and me, but I felt that it could use a bit of reorganisation, and being put into a form where

grub.enbug.org wiki database dump

2011-03-29 Thread KESHAV P.R.
Hi, I am user of grub2 and have edited a few wiki articles. YOu seems to have taken back control of this domain name. Can you make available the latest wiki database dump so that it can be hosted elsewhere. I am particularly interested in http://grub.enbug.org/TestingOnMacbook page (BIOS speci