Re: Freeze on 27 February

2012-02-26 Thread Richard Laager
On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 07:34 +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > > Index: grub/util/getroot.c > > === > > --- grub.orig/util/getroot.c2012-02-03 05:22:36.227364000 -0600 > > +++ grub/util/getroot.c 2012-02-

Re: Freeze on 27 February

2012-02-26 Thread Richard Laager
On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 07:34 +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > > zfs-poolname-spaces.patch > ... > > @@ -420,6 +419,9 @@ > > if (sscanf (sep, "%s %s", entry.fstype, entry.device) != 2) > > continue; > > > > + unescape (entry.fstype); > > + unescape (entry.de

Re: grub RAID heuristics (how can we avoid "superfluous RAID member (2 found)")

2012-02-26 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 16:49:00 -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 06:43:23 +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko > wrote: > > [dkg wrote:] > > > Select the smallest known block device that can completely enclose the > > > RAID member. The larger block device(s) should

Re: [PATCH] grub-install: add search-file option for load.cfg

2012-02-26 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
I had to rewrite it because of several problems involving lack of fallback if UUID is unavailable, lack of documentation and so on. Committed my version On 14.01.2012 03:59, Jon Ringle wrote: Signed-off-by: Jon Ringle --- util/grub-install.in | 26 +- 1 files change

Re: [PATCH] grub + FreeBSD's loader(8) + ZFS root

2012-02-26 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 07.04.2010 22:21, Navdeep Parhar wrote: 2010/4/7 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko: Navdeep Parhar wrote: Hello grub-devel, Right now it's not possible to boot using FreeBSD's loader(8) from a ZFS root filesystem. Grub doesn't indicate to the loader that there is a ZFS root involved an

Re: Grub2 and Xen menu entries

2012-02-26 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 03.04.2011 13:36, Alexey Shvetsov wrote: Hi all! I'm using xen on gentoo with grub2 and seems there is and issue with default xen detection mechanism because it also adds menu entries for all xen symlinks in boot and for xen-syms [see grub.cfg.unpatched] that shouldn't happen. Contents of

Support for different hotkey action than execute

2012-02-26 Thread Andreas Born
Attached patch introduces a new environment variable hotkey_action. It can be set to select or execute, whereas the latter is the default. So the default behaviour doesn't change. With select set instead a menu entry is just selected and not executed/booted on hotkey press. This is for example

Re: [PATCH V3 1/3] Update the Linux boot protocol

2012-02-26 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 26.02.2012 22:18, Keshav P R wrote: I am asking about 'this' patch (patch 1/3) alone. 'This' patch by itself has no effect. -- Regards Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mail

Re: [PATCH V3 1/3] Update the Linux boot protocol

2012-02-26 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 26.02.2012 22:22, Keshav P R wrote: Coming to the issue of distro package, has the uefi relocator hang (seen in many asus laptops) been fixed in bzr mainline? The reports feature one bug that debug=all caused relocator to hang. I don't know what happens in case when no "debug" is set and whet

Re: [PATCH V3 1/3] Update the Linux boot protocol

2012-02-26 Thread Keshav P R
Coming to the issue of distro package, has the uefi relocator hang (seen in many asus laptops) been fixed in bzr mainline? On 27/02/2012, Keshav P R wrote: > I am asking about 'this' patch (patch 1/3) alone. Not the other two > ones. And the distro package was never updated, it was just a test >

Re: [PATCH V3 1/3] Update the Linux boot protocol

2012-02-26 Thread Keshav P R
I am asking about 'this' patch (patch 1/3) alone. Not the other two ones. And the distro package was never updated, it was just a test build with a bzr snapshot and these patches, given to users willing to test the code. - Keshav On 27/02/2012, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > On 2

Re: [PATCH V3 1/3] Update the Linux boot protocol

2012-02-26 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 26.02.2012 22:01, Keshav P R wrote: Status of this patch in grub2 v2.00 code freeze? I have written what have to be fixed first. And one thing: your idea to put into distro a patch which has known serious issues that have to be resolved was a very bad one. -- Regards Vladimir 'φ-coder/phco

Re: grub-install revamp

2012-02-26 Thread Keshav P R
Status of mactel bless in grub2 v2.00 code freeze? - Keshav On 02/02/2012, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > On 30.01.2012 03:37, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: >> Hello, all. It was a Robert's idea of having grub-install to install >> all available (as in: the ones wh

Re: [PATCH V3 1/3] Update the Linux boot protocol

2012-02-26 Thread Keshav P R
Status of this patch in grub2 v2.00 code freeze? - Keshav On 09/02/2012, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > Go ahead. > On 08.02.2012 17:55, Matthew Garrett wrote: >> The Linux boot header includes information on the kernel's desired load >> address and alignment. Add support for tha

Re: Fix for pkgdatadir grub-mkconfig_lib in all util scripts and grub.d scripts

2012-02-26 Thread Mike Gilbert
2012/2/26 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko : > On 21.02.2012 00:57, Grégoire Sutre wrote: >> >> On 02/20/2012 06:47 PM, Keshav P R wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>>     Attached patch fixes runtime error due to sed transform used in >>> pkgdatadir >> >> >> Maybe we should apply the sed transform to grub-

Re: Infinite loop in __argp_get_display_len

2012-02-26 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 26.02.2012 20:12, Mike Gilbert wrote: Running grub-mkimage --help triggers an infinite loop in __argp_get_display_len. Backtrace attached. Yes, I've just noticed it. I have a fix, just testing it. The following change seems to resolve it; I wonder if it should be applied to the other functio

Infinite loop in __argp_get_display_len

2012-02-26 Thread Mike Gilbert
Running grub-mkimage --help triggers an infinite loop in __argp_get_display_len. Backtrace attached. The following change seems to resolve it; I wonder if it should be applied to the other functions in argp-fmtstream.c? === modified file 'grub-core/gnulib/argp-fmtstream.c' --- grub-core/gnulib/ar

Re: Fix for pkgdatadir grub-mkconfig_lib in all util scripts and grub.d scripts

2012-02-26 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 21.02.2012 00:57, Grégoire Sutre wrote: On 02/20/2012 06:47 PM, Keshav P R wrote: Hi, Attached patch fixes runtime error due to sed transform used in pkgdatadir Maybe we should apply the sed transform to grub-mkconfig_lib's installation directory, i.e., install grub-mkconfig_lib along

Re: The submenu command shows a text-based menu when using a GFX theme.

2012-02-26 Thread Towheed Mohammed
Makes much sense, thanks for the clarification. Towheed Mohammed - Original Message - From: Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko To: The development of GNU GRUB Cc: Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2012 1:02 PM Subject: Re: The submenu command shows a text-based menu when using a GFX them

Re: The submenu command shows a text-based menu when using a GFX theme.

2012-02-26 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 26.02.2012 17:20, Towheed Mohammed wrote: I have tested this on separate distros, including but not limited to: ArchLinux, Debian (and Debian-based distros), Slackware, Fedora, VectorLinux and openSUSE (some others I can't recall ATM), all with and without separate /boot partitions and all

Re: The submenu command shows a text-based menu when using a GFX theme.

2012-02-26 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Towheed Mohammed wrote: I have tested this on separate distros, including but not limited to: ArchLinux, Debian (and Debian-based distros), Slackware, Fedora, VectorLinux and openSUSE (some others I can't recall ATM), all with and without separate /boot partitions and all with GRUB 1.99 installed

Re: The submenu command shows a text-based menu when using a GFX theme.

2012-02-26 Thread Towheed Mohammed
I have tested this on separate distros, including but not limited to: ArchLinux, Debian (and Debian-based distros), Slackware, Fedora, VectorLinux and openSUSE (some others I can't recall ATM), all with and without separate /boot partitions and all with GRUB 1.99 installed..  Actually, my demo t

Re: The submenu command shows a text-based menu when using a GFX theme.

2012-02-26 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 26.02.2012 03:18, Towheed Mohammed wrote: Also consider this. As in the case of the image component, it's file property allows for a fully qualified filename: + image { file = "/usr/share/grub/themes/demo/images/gnu.jpg" This possibility is kept for backward compatibility but shouldn't be