On 15.04.2011 08:01, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> Could grub2 give a menu item for Recovery Partitions? It finds
> Windows on sda2 on Ntfs but not the Windows Recovery Partition on sda1
> on Fat16? Could i edit the menu "on the fly" as i might have done
> with grub legacy or would the prober thing
This problem is present, at least, on ZFS.
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On Apr 14, 2011, at 8:55 PM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder'
Serbinenko wrote:
> On 15.04.2011 04:45, Bean wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I believe this is caused by the read algorithm of grub2. If the file
>> is continuous, grub legacy will read it in one pass
Hey,
I am working on booting a physical machine using VHD files (regarding which
I have not accomplished much) and I believe one way to go about it would be
to make grub treat a virtual hard disk as physical hard disk. This way, the
physical machine does not need to know what it is booting from an
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 03:37:32PM -0400, Swapnesh Chaubal wrote:
> I am working on booting a physical machine using VHD files (regarding which
> I have not accomplished much) and I believe one way to go about it would be
> to make grub treat a virtual hard disk as physical hard disk. This way, the
On 15.04.2011 10:18, Seth Goldberg wrote:
> This problem is present, at least, on ZFS.
Could you test the attached patch then?
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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
=== modified file 'grub-core/disk/efi/efidisk.c'
--- grub-core/disk/efi/efidisk.c 2010-09-21 12:41:23 +
+++ grub-cor
Thank you for the quick reply Len, but it raised more questions in my mind
than it answered.
As for why I am doing this, it is a project that I am working on. I need to
boot physical machines using virtual images via network. One use of the
project is to keep each file systems as a single file on
On 15.04.2011 21:41, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 03:37:32PM -0400, Swapnesh Chaubal wrote:
>> I am working on booting a physical machine using VHD files (regarding which
>> I have not accomplished much) and I believe one way to go about it would be
>> to make grub treat a virt
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 10:12:14PM +0200, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
wrote:
> This part is done and supported (loopback command) as long as the disk
> format is raw (I don't know whether VHD is raw or not).
It is not raw. It has sparse allocation support and supports snapshots
(in sep
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 03:41:51PM -0400, wrote:
> And who is going to map the VHD file to the physical disk for the system
> running from the VHD file?
>
> You probably could convince grub to read a filesystem, find a vhd file,
> teach grub how to parse it and figure out how to find the right of
