Re: GRUB development

2014-11-15 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Wed, 12 Nov 2014 22:33:59 +0100 Andrzej Głuszyński andr...@gmail.com пишет: Hello, i am a student of Theoretical Computer Science at Jagiellonian University in Cracow. I'd like to contribute to grub so I want to know what would be usefull to the project for the moment and relatively easy

Re: Grub development

2014-05-18 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 17.05.2014 09:25, r jan wrote: I am a student doing project on grub, I am interested in developing grub. So please allow me and help me for development of grub. Thankyou You're extremely vague. Please detail what you want to develop and what's the usecase and youtr approach to it.

Grub development

2014-05-17 Thread r jan
I am a student doing project on grub, I am interested in developing grub. So please allow me and help me for development of grub. Thankyou ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: Grub development

2014-05-17 Thread SevenBits
On Saturday, May 17, 2014, r jan rjanakir...@gmail.com wrote: I am a student doing project on grub, I am interested in developing grub. So please allow me and help me for development of grub. Thankyou Well, I'm not sure what you mean by help you. We're certainly not going to write code for

Re: Where is GRUB development?

2013-05-14 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 03:54:46PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 11:43:50AM -0700, Bruce Korb wrote: Well, my distro (openSuSE) generates a special entry for rescue mode, too. But it rescues me into run level 5. init 3 will, indeed, drop me back to multi-user and

Re: Where is GRUB development?

2013-05-14 Thread Bruce Korb
Hi, On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Lennart Sorensen lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote: Well runlevels and their meanings are a user space issue. 1 is only single user by tradition, it doesn't have to be. single user is meaningful only by tradition in the UNIX environment and GRUB is OS

Re: Where is GRUB development?

2013-05-14 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 14.05.2013 18:33, Bruce Korb wrote: Whatever. No indicator that pressing e does anything, but pressing e gets you to an edit-the-menu-entry screen. Read at the bottom of the screen. For folks who just want to get their Linux up and running, requiring them to learn and understand the

Re: Where is GRUB development?

2013-05-14 Thread Chris Murphy
On May 14, 2013, at 12:03 PM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko phco...@gmail.com wrote: On 14.05.2013 18:33, Bruce Korb wrote: Whatever. No indicator that pressing e does anything, but pressing e gets you to an edit-the-menu-entry screen. Read at the bottom of the screen. For

Where is GRUB development?

2013-05-13 Thread Bruce Korb
I've been Googling around to no particular avail. I have this _really_ difficult problem. I need to boot into single user mode and GRUB2 has made it so difficult that I am unable to accomplish that. I am sure there are reasons for obscuring the obvious in this way, but such reasons escape me.

Re: Where is GRUB development?

2013-05-13 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 09:24:34AM -0700, Bruce Korb wrote: I've been Googling around to no particular avail. I have this _really_ difficult problem. I need to boot into single user mode and GRUB2 has made it so difficult that I am unable to accomplish that. I am sure there are reasons for

Re: Where is GRUB development?

2013-05-13 Thread Andrey Borzenkov
В Mon, 13 May 2013 13:07:14 -0400 Lennart Sorensen lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca пишет: On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 09:24:34AM -0700, Bruce Korb wrote: I've been Googling around to no particular avail. I have this _really_ difficult problem. I need to boot into single user mode and GRUB2 has

Re: Where is GRUB development?

2013-05-13 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 10:09:41PM +0400, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: Do you suggest to create extra menu entries for every possible combination of kernel parameters? Yes. It's not grub's job to know everything about a linux kernel, or bsd kernel or whatever else you might want to pass. Runlevels

Re: Where is GRUB development?

2013-05-13 Thread Bruce Korb
Hi, On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Lennart Sorensen lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote: Debian auto generates a grub.cfg just fine with a rescue option for each kernel detected which does single user mode. It does other options too if you ask it to. Pretty darn simple to use. Well, my

Re: Where is GRUB development?

2013-05-13 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 11:43:50AM -0700, Bruce Korb wrote: Well, my distro (openSuSE) generates a special entry for rescue mode, too. But it rescues me into run level 5. init 3 will, indeed, drop me back to multi-user and init 1 back to single user, but without a reboot, various

Re: Where is GRUB development?

2013-05-13 Thread Chris Murphy
On May 13, 2013, at 12:16 PM, Lennart Sorensen lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote: Not really. Editing in grub2 is not that different from grub 0.97 (although it is slightly different). Slightly different are the syntax changes between versions of GRUB 1.xx that caused even grubby to

Re: Where is GRUB development?

2013-05-13 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 12:39:39PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: Slightly different are the syntax changes between versions of GRUB 1.xx that caused even grubby to puke. The difference in syntax between 0.97 and 2 are monumental, unless you're a scripting nerd. If you're a regular user, the

Re: Where is GRUB development?

2013-05-13 Thread Jordi Mallach
El dl 13 de 05 de 2013 a les 11:43 -0700, en/na Bruce Korb va escriure: I have learned that in the grub2 menu mode, you can press e and all of a sudden you can edit the command line. It seems my request boils down to some documentation. In the menu code so when I'm looking at the menu, there