Re: [PATCH v2 grub] hurdhelper: Add helper for loading GNU/Hurd multiboot modules

2023-07-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Damien Zammit, le dim. 16 juil. 2023 10:40:29 +, a ecrit: > This adds a new grub module called hurdhelper. That's both simple to implement and interesting for use, thanks! > This module simplifies the loading of hurd multiboot modules > by allowing them to be loaded i

[PATCH v2 grub] hurdhelper: Add helper for loading GNU/Hurd multiboot modules

2023-07-16 Thread Damien Zammit
This adds a new grub module called hurdhelper. This module simplifies the loading of hurd multiboot modules by allowing them to be loaded in one line (in order of loading). A typical use case would be: grub> insmod hurdhelper grub> multiboot /boot/gnumach-1.8-486-dbg.gz root=part:2:devi

Re: [PATCH] Use grub-file instead of mbchk to test multiboot header

2023-01-06 Thread Samuel Thibault
Applied, thanks! Flavio Cruz, le ven. 06 janv. 2023 00:24:38 -0500, a ecrit: > mbchk is not part of grub2 and only available on grub-legacy. > --- > tests/Makefrag.am | 2 +- > tests/configfrag.ac| 2 +- > tests/{test-mbchk.in =>

[PATCH] Use grub-file instead of mbchk to test multiboot header

2023-01-05 Thread Flavio Cruz
mbchk is not part of grub2 and only available on grub-legacy. --- tests/Makefrag.am | 2 +- tests/configfrag.ac| 2 +- tests/{test-mbchk.in => test-multiboot.in} | 8 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) rename tests/{t

Re: [PATCH grub] hurdhelper: Add helper to load GNU/Hurd multiboot modules

2022-09-30 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Damien Zammit, le ven. 30 sept. 2022 12:53:27 +, a ecrit: > This adds a new grub module called hurdhelper. That's nice, but be should be submitted to the grub mailing list :) > +#define ACPI_TASK"acpi" > +#define PCI_TASK "pci-

[PATCH grub] hurdhelper: Add helper to load GNU/Hurd multiboot modules

2022-09-30 Thread Damien Zammit
This adds a new grub module called hurdhelper. This module simplifies the loading of hurd multiboot modules by allowing them to be loaded in one line (in order of loading). A typical use case would be: insmod multiboot insmod hurdhelper multiboot /boot/gnumach-1.8-486

Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] Add initial support for booting x86_64 from grub

2022-08-28 Thread Samuel Thibault
Luca, le dim. 28 août 2022 09:54:43 +0200, a ecrit: > Il 27 agosto 2022 20:02:40 UTC, Samuel Thibault ha > scritto: > > Samuel Thibault, le sam. 27 août 2022 21:41:57 +0200, a ecrit: > > > Mmm, on the set_cr3() in i386at_init call, it reboots... > > > > Ah, reducing the memory size to 2G fixed it

Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] Add initial support for booting x86_64 from grub

2022-08-28 Thread Luca
Il 27 agosto 2022 20:02:40 UTC, Samuel Thibault ha scritto: Samuel Thibault, le sam. 27 août 2022 21:41:57 +0200, a ecrit: Mmm, on the set_cr3() in i386at_init call, it reboots... Ah, reducing the memory size to 2G fixed it. The kernel_pmap->l4base address was at 0xFFFD3000, apparently that w

Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] Add initial support for booting x86_64 from grub

2022-08-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le sam. 27 août 2022 21:41:57 +0200, a ecrit: > Mmm, on the set_cr3() in i386at_init call, it reboots... Ah, reducing the memory size to 2G fixed it. The kernel_pmap->l4base address was at 0xFFFD3000, apparently that was going up the roof :) It'd be useful to test with larger memo

Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] Add initial support for booting x86_64 from grub

2022-08-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Mmm, on the set_cr3() in i386at_init call, it reboots... Samuel

Re: [PATCH 1/6] add support for booting from grub with x86_64

2022-08-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Luca Dariz, le sam. 05 févr. 2022 18:51:24 +0100, a ecrit: > * configure: compile for native x86_64 by default instead of xen > * x86_64/Makefrag.am: introduce KERNEL_MAP_BASE to reuse the constant > in both code and linker script > * x86_64/ldscript: use a .boot section for the very first operat

Re: [PATCH 1/6] add support for booting from grub with x86_64

2022-08-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
have > > tried with --host=x86_64-gnu, in all cases after pressing enter at the > > grub menu it loads the kernel but just reboots immediately after that, > > even if I have put a jmp boot_entry at boot_entry, i.e. it's really the > > load that is a problem and not any

Re: [PATCH 1/6] add support for booting from grub with x86_64

2022-08-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le sam. 27 août 2022 20:26:10 +0200, a ecrit: > I can't manage to make this boot at all. Is there a particular configure > option to pass? I have let it just use the linux 64bit compiler, I have > tried with --host=x86_64-gnu, in all cases after pressing enter at t

Re: [PATCH 1/6] add support for booting from grub with x86_64

2022-08-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, I can't manage to make this boot at all. Is there a particular configure option to pass? I have let it just use the linux 64bit compiler, I have tried with --host=x86_64-gnu, in all cases after pressing enter at the grub menu it loads the kernel but just reboots immediately after

[PATCH 1/6] add support for booting from grub with x86_64

2022-02-05 Thread Luca Dariz
* configure: compile for native x86_64 by default instead of xen * x86_64/Makefrag.am: introduce KERNEL_MAP_BASE to reuse the constant in both code and linker script * x86_64/ldscript: use a .boot section for the very first operations, until we reach long mode. This section is not really alloca

[PATCH v2 0/6] Add initial support for booting x86_64 from grub

2022-02-05 Thread Luca Dariz
support for booting from grub with x86_64 cleanup multiboot fix register corruption in irq on qemu fix console setting from cmdline enable user access fix Task State Segment layout for 64 bit Makefrag.am| 1 - configure.ac | 3

Re: [PATCH 1/6] add support for booting from grub with x86_64

2022-02-01 Thread Luca
Il 28/01/22 20:56, Samuel Thibault ha scritto: Hello, Luca Dariz, le ven. 28 janv. 2022 19:24:04 +0100, a ecrit: * link kernel at 0x400 as the xen version, higher values causes linker errors. * we can't use full segmentation in long mode, so we need to create a temporary mapping durin

Re: [PATCH 1/6] add support for booting from grub with x86_64

2022-01-28 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Luca Dariz, le ven. 28 janv. 2022 19:24:04 +0100, a ecrit: > * link kernel at 0x400 as the xen version, higher values causes > linker errors. > * we can't use full segmentation in long mode, so we need to create a > temporary mapping during early boot to be able to jump to high >

[PATCH 1/6] add support for booting from grub with x86_64

2022-01-28 Thread Luca Dariz
* link kernel at 0x400 as the xen version, higher values causes linker errors. * we can't use full segmentation in long mode, so we need to create a temporary mapping during early boot to be able to jump to high addresses * build direct map for first 4G in boothdr (seems required by Linux

[PATCH 0/6] Add initial support for booting x86_64 from grub

2022-01-28 Thread Luca Dariz
ound. Luca Dariz (6): add support for booting from grub with x86_64 cleanup multiboot fix register corruption in irq on qemu fix console setting from cmdline enable user access fix Task State Segment layout for 64 bit Makefrag.am| 1 - configure.ac

Re: [bug #48685] update-grub triggers filesystem server panics

2016-08-04 Thread Justus Winter
> Sure enough, the crash is gone, but I still get the error messages: Good. > ext2fs: /dev/hd0s2: panic: main: device too small for superblock (1024 > bytes) > /hurd/fatfs: Invalid number of bytes per sector > /hurd/iso9660fs: Could not find valid superblock > > Are you sugges

Re: [bug #48685] update-grub triggers filesystem server panics

2016-08-03 Thread Brent W. Baccala
in: device too small for superblock (1024 bytes) /hurd/fatfs: Invalid number of bytes per sector /hurd/iso9660fs: Could not find valid superblock Are you suggesting that these are to be expected? Is this a bug in update-grub? These messages seem awfully severe for a standard system operation. agape brent

[bug #48685] update-grub triggers filesystem server panics

2016-08-03 Thread Justus Winter
Update of bug #48685 (project hurd): Status:None => Fixed Open/Closed:Open => Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #1: The isofs crash is fix

[bug #48685] update-grub triggers filesystem server panics

2016-08-03 Thread Brent Baccala
URL: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?48685> Summary: update-grub triggers filesystem server panics Project: The GNU Hurd Submitted by: baccala Submitted on: Wed 03 Aug 2016 07:01:57 AM GMT Category

Re: grub reinstall / grub keeps rebooting

2014-12-07 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Samuel Thibault wrote: Did you try to put a linux partition on this box too? The idea would be to check whether its grub has the same kind of issue. no, not yet. Btw, they are two boxes now! The HDD is not big enough. But I could try on another HDD temporarily, perhaps the best bet would

Re: grub reinstall / grub keeps rebooting

2014-12-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Did you try to put a linux partition on this box too? The idea would be to check whether its grub has the same kind of issue. Samuel

Re: grub reinstall / grub keeps rebooting

2014-12-04 Thread Justus Winter
the disk in my original box, it just keeps rebooting, > > I don't even get the grub screen. Thus I suppose it is grub that > > forces this continuous reboot cycle? > > > > Are there "options" when configuring grub? Something architecture > > dependent

Re: grub reinstall / grub keeps rebooting

2014-12-04 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Riccardo Mottola wrote: Hi, I installed everything on a "host" machine (same architecture as my target box, just more ram and more Mhz). I end up with something bootable! However if I put the disk in my original box, it just keeps rebooting, I don't even get the grub

grub reinstall / grub keeps rebooting

2014-12-01 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, I installed everything on a "host" machine (same architecture as my target box, just more ram and more Mhz). I end up with something bootable! However if I put the disk in my original box, it just keeps rebooting, I don't even get the grub screen. Thus I suppose it is g

Re: grub-probe/update-grub/reconfigure gnumach-image disasters fixed

2013-05-06 Thread Riccardo Mottola
orked! thanks Samuel! The new kernel made it possible for the installation to complete, it also installed Grub correctly and now my machines boots 100% from Hard Disk without the need of a floppy :) Very good. Now I will get back updating all my gnustep sources and see how they fare and report

Re: grub-probe/update-grub/reconfigure gnumach-image disasters fixed

2013-05-03 Thread Svante Signell
On Thu, 2013-05-02 at 23:52 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Svante Signell, le Thu 02 May 2013 12:14:46 +0200, a écrit : > > On Thu, 2013-05-02 at 01:47 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > But I guess you were still running the old kernel while doing this? > > You need to reboot with the new kernel t

Re: grub-probe/update-grub/reconfigure gnumach-image disasters fixed

2013-05-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
was for me one of the last bits to fix before making a Debian > > GNU/Hurd release, does anybody have something else? > > Well, the gnumach solution does not seem to work for me: > Setting up gnumach-image-1.3.99-486 (2:1.3.99.dfsg.git20130501-1) ... > run-parts: executin

Re: grub-probe/update-grub/reconfigure gnumach-image disasters fixed

2013-05-02 Thread Svante Signell
y have something else? Well, the gnumach solution does not seem to work for me: Setting up gnumach-image-1.3.99-486 (2:1.3.99.dfsg.git20130501-1) ... run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-update-grub 1.3.99-486 /boot/gnumach-1.3.99-486.gz Generating grub.cfg ... grub-probe: mall

Re: grub-probe/update-grub/reconfigure gnumach-image disasters fixed

2013-05-02 Thread Svante Signell
y have something else? Well, the gnumach solution does not seem to work for me: Setting up gnumach-image-1.3.99-486 (2:1.3.99.dfsg.git20130501-1) ... run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-update-grub 1.3.99-486 /boot/gnumach-1.3.99-486.gz Generating grub.cfg ... grub-probe: mall

grub-probe/update-grub/reconfigure gnumach-image disasters fixed

2013-05-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, The latest commit in gnumach should be fixing the disasters that some people have been seeing in their hurd system. This was due to an improper handling of non-block-aligned reads in the gnumach linux block glue, which happens only if partitions are not block-aligned, leading to putting dis

Re: grub-pc makes hurd crash

2012-05-22 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Samuel Thibault wrote: Riccardo Mottola, le Sat 19 May 2012 16:13:19 +0200, a écrit : while configuring/installing grub-pc from debian, the kernel panics in the way attached in the screenshot. I don't see anything obvious, from the source code the assertion should never trigger, so it

Re: grub-pc makes hurd crash

2012-05-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Riccardo Mottola, le Sat 19 May 2012 16:13:19 +0200, a écrit : > while configuring/installing grub-pc from debian, the kernel panics in the > way attached in the screenshot. I don't see anything obvious, from the source code the assertion should never trigger, so it might just be so

grub-pc makes hurd crash

2012-05-19 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, while configuring/installing grub-pc from debian, the kernel panics in the way attached in the screenshot. Riccardo <>

Re: grub-pc makes hurd crash

2012-05-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Riccardo Mottola, le Sat 19 May 2012 16:13:19 +0200, a écrit : > while configuring/installing grub-pc from debian, the kernel panics in the > way attached in the screenshot. which version of the kernel are you running exactly? Samuel

grub-pc makes hurd crash

2012-05-19 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, while configuring/installing grub-pc from debian, the kernel panics in the way attached in the screenshot. Riccardo <>

Re: Fixing grub-probe to work with user-space part stores

2012-04-24 Thread Samuel Thibault
fo() on them too. > We would compare the result with that of the file being looked up, and > use the grub-detected partition information to deteremine on which > _grub_ device the file resides. This was NACKED by grub maintainer. Not only because he does not want to involve GRUB here, but a

Re: Fixing grub-probe to work with user-space part stores

2010-08-11 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 05:28:57PM +0200, Carl Fredrik Hammar wrote: > On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 08:22:14PM +0200, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: > > GRUB effectively needs a three-way mapping between filesystems, device > > node names, and GRUB device names. The mapping betwe

Re: Fixing grub-probe to work with user-space part stores

2010-08-09 Thread olafBuddenhagen
ar, would be > > > to enumerate the _grub_ devices, and use get_storage_info() on > > > them too. > > > > Not sure what you mean by using get_storage_info() on GRUB > > devices?... > > I mean we enumerate the "whole disk" devices from the devi

Re: Fixing grub-probe to work with user-space part stores

2010-08-08 Thread Carl Fredrik Hammar
gt; file_get_underlying_storage_info(), which returns the backing store > > used by the filesystem. (I'm not sure if this should be in fs.defs or > > fsys.defs though.) This would be a hurdish analogy to st_dev thin is > > returned by stat(), except that it returns a stor

Re: Fixing grub-probe to work with user-space part stores

2010-07-28 Thread Jeremie Koenig
info() on them too. > > Not sure what you mean by using get_storage_info() on GRUB devices?... I mean we enumerate the "whole disk" devices from the devices.map, use get_storage_info() on them and compare the result with the storage information for the looked up file. If both use the sam

Re: Fixing grub-probe to work with user-space part stores

2010-07-28 Thread olafBuddenhagen
be a hurdish analogy to st_dev thin is > returned by stat(), except that it returns a store instead of a device > number. IIRC grub-probe on other systems matches st_dev with the > st_rdev of device files, but this doesn't work on Hurd because having > stable device numbers in a

Re: Fixing grub-probe to work with user-space part stores

2010-07-28 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 08:00:24PM +0200, Jérémie Koenig wrote: > On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 11:19 PM, wrote: > Summary: grub-probe, used by grub-install, needs to deteremine which > device node a given file (say, /boot/grub) is stored on. [...] > There are three > approches

Re: Fixing grub-probe to work with user-space part stores

2010-07-17 Thread Jérémie Koenig
IBSTORE) CC = @CC@ CFLAGS = @CFLAGS@ Index: configure.ac === --- configure.ac.orig 2010-07-16 13:08:11.0 + +++ configure.ac 2010-07-16 13:09:45.00000 + @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ dnl type. -AC_INIT([GRUB],[0],[bug-g...@gnu.org]) dnl version is filled by debian/r

Re: Fixing grub-probe to work with user-space part stores

2010-07-14 Thread Carl Fredrik Hammar
age_info(), which returns the backing store used by the filesystem. (I'm not sure if this should be in fs.defs or fsys.defs though.) This would be a hurdish analogy to st_dev thin is returned by stat(), except that it returns a store instead of a device number. IIRC grub-probe on other systems

Fixing grub-probe to work with user-space part stores

2010-07-13 Thread Jérémie Koenig
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 11:19 PM, wrote: > I already talked to Jeremie > about handling of partitions in grub-probe. As this is a rather > fundamental issue, I hope he will start an extra thread on this. Summary: grub-probe, used by grub-install, needs to deteremine which device nod

Re: update-grub

2009-11-30 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jakub Daniel, le Tue 01 Dec 2009 02:32:32 +0100, a écrit : > update-grub throws segfault Yes, it should get fixed by the latest 20091130 upload. Samuel

update-grub

2009-11-30 Thread Jakub Daniel
Hello update-grub throws segfault I searched for the cause and this is what I got update-grub grub-mkconfig 00_header prepare_grub_to_access_device grub-probe this is how grub-probe is called here: /usr/sbin/grub-probe --device /dev/hd0s1 --target=fs is

Re: grub vs st_dev (aka fsid) / st_rdev

2009-11-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
olafbuddenha...@gmx.net, le Wed 11 Nov 2009 00:23:17 +0100, a écrit : > On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 10:47:08PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > - Either we align more on POSIX to manage to get the st_dev (aka fsid) > > of filesystems equal to the the st_rdev of their underlying /dev > > entries. A

Re: grub vs st_dev (aka fsid) / st_rdev

2009-11-10 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 10:47:08PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > - Either we align more on POSIX to manage to get the st_dev (aka fsid) > of filesystems equal to the the st_rdev of their underlying /dev > entries. An easy way is to have storeios expose their own pid as > st_rdev, and have

Re: grub vs st_dev (aka fsid) / st_rdev

2009-11-10 Thread Carl Fredrik Hammar
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 02:01:19PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > I assumed that was the case for the ones that are interesting for grub. > > Yes, but then to realize unicity it's more difficult, as you have > several sources of IDs. You can of course use a prefix to ident

Re: grub vs st_dev (aka fsid) / st_rdev

2009-11-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
ge_info and use the store directly, > after this it doesn't need storeio. This is what ext2fs does. Ah, I didn't know that. Mmf. > > > The ideal would be to derive it from the underlying Mach device somehow. > > > > Not all storage are Mach devices. > &

Re: grub vs st_dev (aka fsid) / st_rdev

2009-11-10 Thread Carl Fredrik Hammar
es. > > The ideal would be to derive it from the underlying Mach device somehow. > > Not all storage are Mach devices. I assumed that was the case for the ones that are interesting for grub. > > > - Or we make grub use a more hurdish interface, i.e. > > > file_ge

Re: grub vs st_dev (aka fsid) / st_rdev

2009-11-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
. Not all storage are Mach devices. > The question is how to derive it if there's some sort of transformation > involved, e.g. gzip stores, concatinated stores, unionfs, etc. We'd need > to find some stable algorithm that can produce fairly unique numbers

Re: grub vs st_dev (aka fsid) / st_rdev

2009-11-10 Thread Carl Fredrik Hammar
ores, concatinated stores, unionfs, etc. We'd need to find some stable algorithm that can produce fairly unique numbers. > - Or we make grub use a more hurdish interface, i.e. > file_get_storage_info, e.g. storeinfo -n / . > I have however observed a disturbing behavior: &g

grub vs st_dev (aka fsid) / st_rdev

2009-11-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Currently, grub has no way to know which /dev/ entries corresponds to /boot and /. Its detection mechanism is to run stat /, which on Linux notably gives Device: 306h/774d Inode: 2 Links: 29 i.e. st_dev is (3,6), and it also runs stats on /dev/*, notably /dev/hda6

Re: grub segfaulting

2009-06-01 Thread Barry deFreese
char = -1 serial_device = 0x0 serial_fd = -1 apm_bios_info = {version = 0, cseg = 0, offset = 0, cseg_16 = 0, dseg_16 = 0, cseg_len = 0, cseg_16_len = 0, dseg_16_len = 0} grub_scratch_mem = 0x1244000 "" install_partition = 131072 linux_text_len = 0 ascii_key_map = {0 } linux_data_tmp_add

Re: grub segfaulting

2009-06-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Barry deFreese, le Sun 31 May 2009 10:03:32 -0400, a écrit : > Even if I run the unmodified version I get segfaults with the > following error on the console: > > end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0 > > Any clue on what could be causing that? Doesn't gdb give you a backtrace? Samuel

grub segfaulting

2009-05-31 Thread Barry deFreese
Hi folks, I was playing with grub to see if I could find out where it is dying. It was working OK but now it is core dumping. Even if I run the unmodified version I get segfaults with the following error on the console: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0 Any clue on what could be

Re: GRUB on GNU/Hurd (was: GNU/Hurd Rescue CD)

2007-03-22 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 08:15:53PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > So, why doesn't it install a boot loader? I think this probably because it uses an obsolete code base which never did install Grub when installing GNU/Linux, either. Adding this feature would still be welcome, but prob

Re: GRUB on GNU/Hurd (was: GNU/Hurd Rescue CD)

2007-03-21 Thread leslie . polzer
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 07:57:06PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > You then need to explain that to your mailer for properly setting the > Mail-Followup-To: header. Indeed. > > > Correct, you can't install GRUB from within a GNU/Hurd system, > > But the resc

Re: GRUB on GNU/Hurd (was: GNU/Hurd Rescue CD)

2007-03-21 Thread Samuel Thibault
e Mail-Followup-To: header. > > Correct, you can't install GRUB from within a GNU/Hurd system, > But the rescue CD is running GNU/Linux...? Yes. Samuel ___ Bug-hurd mailing list Bug-hurd@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd

Re: GRUB on GNU/Hurd (was: GNU/Hurd Rescue CD)

2007-03-21 Thread leslie . polzer
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 03:37:16PM +0100, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > [Taking this to .] No need to CC me, I happen to be subscribed :) > Correct, you can't install GRUB from within a GNU/Hurd system, But the rescue CD is running GNU/Linux...? Leslie -- NEW home

Re: GRUB on GNU/Hurd (was: GNU/Hurd Rescue CD)

2007-03-21 Thread Samuel Thibault
Thomas Schwinge, le Wed 21 Mar 2007 15:37:16 +0100, a écrit : > It's probably no longer worthwhile to do that for GRUB legacy, Maybe as a debian patch at least. Samuel ___ Bug-hurd mailing list Bug-hurd@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/

GRUB on GNU/Hurd (was: GNU/Hurd Rescue CD)

2007-03-21 Thread Thomas Schwinge
[Taking this to .] Hello! On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 08:43:43AM +0100, Leslie P. Polzer wrote: > Da wir gerade beim Thema Hurd waren... ist es richtig und ggf. > beabsichtigt, da? die Debian GNU/Hurd Rescue-CD keinen Bootloader > installiert? Correct, you can't install GRUB from wit

super grub disk 0.9567 boot gnu/hurd

2007-01-21 Thread adrian15
Hello Gnu/Hurders: Super Grub Disk (Boot rescue cdrom, if you want it in floppy, just ask me) now it is supposed to boot Gnu/Hurd as a normal thing or as a superuser. Options you should issue to boot it are: Your Language -> Advanced -> Other Oses -> Hurd -> Auto Boot -> Same

Re: Xen vs. GRUB

2007-01-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Ian C. Blenke, le Mon 08 Jan 2007 13:56:32 -0500, a écrit : > Xen PV domUs can boot from "pygrub". This is the method used by JailTime > and rPath to encapsulate kernels and initrd inside the disk images. > > So there is already such a "port". Just specify a bootloader in your xen > config:

Re: Xen vs. GRUB

2007-01-08 Thread Ian C. Blenke
Samuel Thibault wrote: Thomas Schwinge, le Wed 03 Jan 2007 13:09:25 +0100, a écrit : Is there a consensus that GRUB (or rather GRUB2) should be ported to allow them to run in a Xen environment? I'm not sure grub on Xen would be so useful, since people usually choose their oper

Re: Xen vs. GRUB

2007-01-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Thomas Schwinge, le Wed 03 Jan 2007 13:09:25 +0100, a écrit : > Is there a consensus that GRUB (or rather GRUB2) should be ported to > allow them to run in a Xen environment? I'm not sure grub on Xen would be so useful, since people usually choose their operating system and

Xen vs. GRUB

2007-01-03 Thread Thomas Schwinge
[Cced to .] Hello! This is about porting GRUB to Xen to allow booting a GNU/Hurd system as a Xen domU. GNU/Hurd systems use GNU Mach as a microkernel and have a GRUB configuration like the following one, which is currently not translatable to a Xen configuration: #v+ title Debian GNU/Hurd

GRUB 2 for booting a Hurd system (was: Real partition under QEMU)

2006-10-04 Thread Thomas Schwinge
[Cced to bug-hurd as it might also be of interest there.] Hello! On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 07:10:29PM +0200, Luca Capello wrote: > On Sun, 01 Oct 2006 14:46:22 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Luca Capello, le Sun 01 Oct 2006 11:48:58 +0200, a ??crit : > >> Well, here what a

GRUB 1.91 is released

2005-10-15 Thread Marco Gerards
I'm happy to announce the release of GRUB 1.91. This is the second of our prereleases leading up to GRUB 2.0. We encourage you to try it, as we have done a significant amount of work towards GRUB 2. Note that this release is mainly for developers who are willing to contribute to our projec

Re: isofs booting from grub

2005-02-22 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
At Wed, 23 Feb 2005 00:23:53 +0100, Alfred M Szmidt wrote: > > The following is needed so that one can boot of a CD, many thanks to > Marcus. > > Ok to commit? Yes. > isofs/ChangeLog > 2005-02-23 Alfred M. Szmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Makefile (iso9660fs.static): New target. Than

Re: isofs booting from grub

2005-02-22 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Commited. 2005-02-23 Alfred M. Szmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Makefile (iso9660fs.static): New target. ___ Bug-hurd mailing list Bug-hurd@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd

isofs booting from grub

2005-02-22 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
The following is needed so that one can boot of a CD, many thanks to Marcus. Ok to commit? isofs/ChangeLog 2005-02-23 Alfred M. Szmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Makefile (iso9660fs.static): New target. Index: isofs/Makefile

Re: grub

2005-02-07 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
configfile (nd)/boot/hurd-l4/menu.lst Problem with that is that you can't share that file with `boot', which is quite a nice thing IMHO. ___ Bug-hurd mailing list Bug-hurd@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd

Re: grub

2005-02-07 Thread Neal H. Walfield
> Have you tried that? I'm not sure it actually works, but I'm not sure it > doesn't. I think I tried it and it wasn't the right thing, but I don't > really recall at the moment. From my understanding of what your patch is supposed to do, yes and it works quite well for me. Specifically, I have

Re: grub

2005-02-07 Thread Roland McGrath
> > With this, we put the canonical script into /boot/servers.boot and instead > > of everyone's grub config file copying the magic command lines, they just > > use: > > > > kernel /boot/gnumach > > modulelist /boot/servers.boot > > Why can'y

Re: gnu/hurd doesn't boot at grub>boot (ibm t41)

2005-02-06 Thread Barry deFreese
Shakthi Kannan wrote: Hi! --- Shakthi Kannan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: grub>boot The system just hangs here. I don't get any output at all. I would really appreciate in getting gnu/hurd installed on my laptop Thanks to araujo and bddebian at ##hurd, I got this working. I ha

Re: gnu/hurd doesn't boot at grub>boot (ibm t41)

2005-02-06 Thread Shakthi Kannan
Hi! --- Shakthi Kannan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > grub>boot > > The system just hangs here. I don't get any output > at > all. I would really appreciate in getting gnu/hurd > installed on my laptop Thanks to araujo and bddebian at ##hurd, I got this work

gnu/hurd doesn't boot at grub>boot (ibm t41)

2005-02-06 Thread Shakthi Kannan
On reboot, I enter grub (version 0.94, which is installed to hdd) and go to the prompt. I do the following: grub>kernel (hd0,3)/boot/gnumach.gz root=device:hd0s4 -s [Multiboot ...] grub>module (hd0,3)/hurd/ext2fs.static --multiboot-command-line=${kernel-command-line} --host-priv-port={hos

Re: grub

2005-02-06 Thread Neal H. Walfield
> With this, we put the canonical script into /boot/servers.boot and instead > of everyone's grub config file copying the magic command lines, they just > use: > > kernel /boot/gnumach > modulelist /boot/servers.boot Why can'y you use the configfile directive? Wou

Re: grub

2005-02-06 Thread Marco Gerards
"Alfred M. Szmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Has anyone used grub2? Is it usable yet? > >It is not usable yet. > > When we spoke sometime ago you said the exact opposite. Has something > changed in the GRUB 2 code base? *sigh*, if someone would

Re: grub

2005-02-05 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
> Has anyone used grub2? Is it usable yet? It is not usable yet. When we spoke sometime ago you said the exact opposite. Has something changed in the GRUB 2 code base? We planned scripting support for GRUB 2. What I had in mind was just a GRUB 2 script for the Hurd. The scr

Re: grub

2005-02-05 Thread Roland McGrath
> It is not usable yet. > > We planned scripting support for GRUB 2. What I had in mind was just > a GRUB 2 script for the Hurd. That sounds great. But since it is not a reality for users who are not themselves hacking on GRUB 2, I would still like to make things easier on people

Re: grub

2005-02-05 Thread Marco Gerards
Roland McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Has anyone used grub2? Is it usable yet? It is not usable yet. We planned scripting support for GRUB 2. What I had in mind was just a GRUB 2 script for the Hurd. The script accepts the root device as argument and loads the right kernel an

Re: grub

2005-02-05 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
2004-09-15 Roland McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> You just couldn't sit and suck on this lollipop any longer huh? ___ Bug-hurd mailing list Bug-hurd@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd

grub

2005-02-05 Thread Roland McGrath
Has anyone used grub2? Is it usable yet? I ask because I sent in patches for some useful features for grub, and Okuji refused to put them in. He says only grub2 will get new features. That seems like a bad decision to me, since everyone is using grub 0.96 and adding simple features there can be

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Re: GRUB patch for 'lilo -R' functionality

2003-11-11 Thread Keir Fraser
> > I only changed the behaviour of savedefault when executed within the > > GRUB-util shell (ie. not GRUB menu mode). I can't think of a scenario > > where the '--once' semantics would be useful to access from the GRUB > > menu, so I'm reluctant to

Re: GRUB patch for 'lilo -R' functionality

2003-11-11 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 06:44:21PM +, Keir Fraser wrote: > > I only changed the behaviour of savedefault when executed within the > GRUB-util shell (ie. not GRUB menu mode). I can't think of a scenario > where the '--once' semantics would be useful to access f

Re: GRUB patch for 'lilo -R' functionality

2003-11-11 Thread Keir Fraser
> I only changed the behaviour of savedefault when executed within the > GRUB-util shell (ie. not GRUB menu mode). I can't think of a scenario > where the '--once' semantics would be useful to access from the GRUB > menu, so I'm reluctant to 'fix' thi

Re: GRUB patch for 'lilo -R' functionality

2003-11-11 Thread Keir Fraser
> I gave a try to your patch for 'lilo -R' functionality in GRUB: > > http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grub/2002-02/msg00151.html > > it seems to basicaly work, but the --once flag is not honored when running > the real grub (I don't know if the problem i

GRUB patch for 'lilo -R' functionality

2003-11-11 Thread Robert Millan
Hi! I gave a try to your patch for 'lilo -R' functionality in GRUB: http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grub/2002-02/msg00151.html it seems to basicaly work, but the --once flag is not honored when running the real grub (I don't know if the problem is in savedefault or in t

GRUB 0.93 is released

2002-12-07 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
I'm happy to announce the release of GRUB 0.93. This is the fourth of our prereleases leading up to GRUB 1.0. We encourage you to try it, as we have done a lot of bugfixes and feature enhancement since the previous release. The source and binary distributions are available fro

GRUB 0.92 is released

2002-04-29 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
I'm happy to announce the release of GRUB 0.92. This is the third of our prereleases leading up to GRUB 1.0. We encourage you to try it, as we have done a lot of bugfixes and feature enhancement since the previous release. The source and binary distributions are available fro

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