Re: [LinuxBIOS] #84: grub2 can boot linux from IDE disk

2007-08-20 Thread LinuxBIOS
#84: grub2 can boot linux from IDE disk +--- Reporter: oxygene | Owner: oxygene Type: enhancement |Status: closed Priority: major| Mileston

Re: [LinuxBIOS] #84: grub2 can boot linux from IDE disk

2007-07-12 Thread Peter Stuge
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 10:19:30PM +0200, Patrick Georgi wrote: > Peter Stuge wrote: > > The OpenBIOS driver is very nice and neat, but not as featureful > > as ADVDRVR which even does DMA. > > I'm pretty much planning to use openbios' (axboe's) driver. Are the grub2 fs drivers already written to

Re: [LinuxBIOS] #84: grub2 can boot linux from IDE disk

2007-07-12 Thread Peter Stuge
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 10:28:30PM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > You might try sending to trac But what should I send? Any docs for the filter? //Peter -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] #84: grub2 can boot linux from IDE disk

2007-07-12 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Uwe Hermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070712 21:06]: > > (How does this thing work to get trac to put emails as ticket > > comments? trac docs anywhere?) > > Doesn't work. It works the other way around, though. If you post > comments to the trac issue, they'll be (automatically) posted on the > list,

Re: [LinuxBIOS] #84: grub2 can boot linux from IDE disk

2007-07-12 Thread Patrick Georgi
Peter Stuge wrote: > The OpenBIOS driver is very nice and neat, but not as featureful as > ADVDRVR which even does DMA. I'm pretty much planning to use openbios' (axboe's) driver. I also doubt that DMA is useful in the boot environment, and I'd like to keep complexity down. Regards, Patrick Geo

Re: [LinuxBIOS] #84: grub2 can boot linux from IDE disk

2007-07-12 Thread Peter Stuge
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 09:06:28PM +0200, Uwe Hermann wrote: > > > Grub2 uses BIOS calls right now for access to disk. Replace > > > this with a driver that accesses ATA disks directly. > > > > _Please_ don't get the one from FILO. > > > > Either grab the one from OpenBIOS or port either ADVDRVR

Re: [LinuxBIOS] #84: grub2 can boot linux from IDE disk

2007-07-12 Thread Uwe Hermann
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 07:53:33PM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 07:37:34AM -, LinuxBIOS wrote: > > Grub2 uses BIOS calls right now for access to disk. Replace this > > with a driver that accesses ATA disks directly. > > _Please_ don't get the one from FILO. > > Either g

Re: [LinuxBIOS] #84: grub2 can boot linux from IDE disk

2007-07-12 Thread Peter Stuge
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 07:37:34AM -, LinuxBIOS wrote: > Grub2 uses BIOS calls right now for access to disk. Replace this > with a driver that accesses ATA disks directly. _Please_ don't get the one from FILO. Either grab the one from OpenBIOS or port either ADVDRVR or MINDRVR written by Hale

[LinuxBIOS] #84: grub2 can boot linux from IDE disk

2007-07-10 Thread LinuxBIOS
#84: grub2 can boot linux from IDE disk -+-- Reporter: oxygene| Owner: oxygene Type: enhancement| Status: new Priority: major