Bug#407338: grub2

2007-02-12 Thread Michael Renner
Otavio Salvador wrote: Michael, can you confirm if GRUB2 works for you? Sorry for my late reply. GRUB2 didn't work for me; I've filed a bug against the GRUB2 package with the specifics [1]. best regards, Michael [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=409073 -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Bug#407338: grub2

2007-01-29 Thread Otavio Salvador
Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Robert, the only issue is that GRUB2 isn't included on Etch and then >> it's not very easy to a regular user to use it. > > If that's good enough, I would prefer forcing grub2 into etch than forcing > the GPT patch on grub. Yes, maybe it is the eaiser

Bug#407338: grub2

2007-01-28 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 07:58:02PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 02:07:04PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: > >> Michael Renner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >> > Thanks, I'll try that. If you're positively sure that thi

Bug#407338: grub2

2007-01-28 Thread Otavio Salvador
Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 02:07:04PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: >> Michael Renner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > Thanks, I'll try that. If you're positively sure that this can be >> > worked out in GRUB2 easily feel free to close this bug and I'll

Bug#407338: grub2

2007-01-27 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 08:09:10PM +0100, Michael Renner wrote: > Robert Millan wrote: > >On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 03:55:34PM +0100, Michael Renner wrote: > > >How hard is it to do a GPT install with the standard installer? I haven't > >tried, but I guess you could use the CD (with 'rescue' comman

Bug#407338: grub2

2007-01-27 Thread Michael Renner
Robert Millan wrote: On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 03:55:34PM +0100, Michael Renner wrote: How hard is it to do a GPT install with the standard installer? I haven't tried, but I guess you could use the CD (with 'rescue' command) for your first boot, and then install GRUB 2 from there. Did you find

Bug#407338: grub2

2007-01-27 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 02:07:04PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Michael Renner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Thanks, I'll try that. If you're positively sure that this can be > > worked out in GRUB2 easily feel free to close this bug and I'll reopen > > a new one in GRUB2 if this should be

Bug#407338: grub2

2007-01-27 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 03:55:34PM +0100, Michael Renner wrote: > Quoting Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi Robert, > > >Adding more patches to GRUB Legacy just makes it harder to maintain, > >since upstream won't accept them. > > I understand that, but a working bootloader which support

Bug#407338: grub2

2007-01-27 Thread Otavio Salvador
Michael Renner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks, I'll try that. If you're positively sure that this can be > worked out in GRUB2 easily feel free to close this bug and I'll reopen > a new one in GRUB2 if this should be a persisting problem. Hello Michael and Robert, Well, after some discussi

Bug#407338: grub2

2007-01-27 Thread Michael Renner
Quoting Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi Robert, Adding more patches to GRUB Legacy just makes it harder to maintain, since upstream won't accept them. I understand that, but a working bootloader which supports GPT partition tables should be easily available on a distribution which h

Bug#407338: grub2

2007-01-27 Thread Robert Millan
Hi Michael, Adding more patches to GRUB Legacy just makes it harder to maintain, since upstream won't accept them. If GRUB 2 has a bug, why don't you try to fix that instead? For what I can see in your report to upstream, it could be a bug that we fixed in the package (I fixed a few that look l