Re: RE: [t2-svn] rev 30132 - trunk/package/x86/grub

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No worries, I remember trying it in a VM with a DOS partition table and it not 
booting. It could of been a dodgy ISO that I was trying to load though (I have 
made a few duff ISO's).

Adam

-----Original Message-----
From: René Rebe [mailto:rene@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: 21 August 2008 10:51
To: Adam Stirk
Cc: t2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [t2] RE: [t2-svn] rev 30132 - trunk/package/x86/grub

Hi,

just a quick comment to the grub note:

Adam Stirk wrote:
...
> FYI I think you might want to remove the GPT patch, as I believe you can't 
> install then GRUB on a non GPT disk. (I had this fix in my build system 
> already)
>   
The patched looked to check for GPT if protected or none classic DOS 
partitions
are found, and I just double checked this on a aging 1GHz Athlon with just 3
normal primary partitions, GRUB installed and booted just fine with 
t2/trunk:HEAD.

Thanks again for pointing me to the GPT issue and to have me double check
the current patchset on mainstream  / old PCs.

Yours,
  René
> Regards
>
> Adam
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: René Rebe [mailto:rene@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 20 August 2008 13:53
> To: Adam Stirk
> Cc: T2 developers mailing list
> Subject: Re: [t2] RE: [t2-svn] rev 30132 - trunk/package/x86/grub
>
> HI Adam,
>
> I don't think it includes GPT support, yet. However, with mostly Intel 
> Macs over
> here in the office it would make sense even for us to backport support 
> for this -
> should not be too hard.
>
> What machines do you use there to have GPT in use?
>
> Tweaking all code paths of GRUB to use non 32bit indexes for disc access 
> will
> be harder. What is your disc configuration to get 2TB storage? E.g. our main
> server has 4 single 500G discs to form 2G of RAW storage thru RAID5.
>
> Honestly I think GRUB 2 should have been a gradual transformation instead
> this never ending rewrite. That GRUB 1 is sort of unmaintained does not 
> exactly
> help it's popularity either (e.g. most distributions already use 
> isolinux for CD
> booting, while we already spent multiple days quirking various USB CD 
> related
> BIOS bugs, and recently imported the grub-suns as well as the grub-os 
> patchset
> to fix even more, and get PXE UNDI BIOS stack network boot support, ...
>
> I started a grub2 package already on my latop, but given it recently had no
> CD boot code and all the rest is also incomplete and in flux it only makes
> sense to have it optional in addition to other, stable boot loaders. 
> Thus I did
> not yet finished a grub2 package as it requires quite some tweaks to install
> files named grub2 to make it possible to install it along grub(1).
>
> Comments (and patches) welcome,
>
>   René
>
> Adam Stirk wrote:
>   
>> Rene,
>>
>> Does this patch set include GPT support? Also are there any plans to add 
>> GRUB 2? I know this has GPT support and support for partitions bigger than 
>> 2Tb. (my system has 4Tb of disk space and was a royal pain in the arse to 
>> get working)
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Adam
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: rene-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rene-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
>> Sent: 20 August 2008 12:51
>> To: t2-svn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [t2-svn] rev 30132 - trunk/package/x86/grub
>>
>>
>> Author: rene
>> Date: 2008-08-20 13:51:25 +0200 (Wed, 20 Aug 2008)
>> New Revision: 30132
>> Log:
>>      * updated grub to the "accumulated /fixes/" patchset 0.97-os.7
>>        (which also includes PXE UNDI network stack support as the new
>>         grub-sunos package, as well as other accumulated fixes)
>>
>> Review the ChangeSet with:
>>   svn diff -c 30132 https://svn.exactcode.de/t2
>>
>> Added:
>>   trunk/package/x86/grub/default-menu.patch
>>   trunk/package/x86/grub/netboot-fixes.patch
>> Removed:
>>   trunk/package/x86/grub/2g_limit.patch
>>   trunk/package/x86/grub/mactel.patch
>> Modified:
>>   trunk/package/x86/grub/gcc-4.0.patch
>>    36 +++++++-----------------
>>   trunk/package/x86/grub/grub-0.95-graphics.patch
>>    13 ++++----
>>   trunk/package/x86/grub/grub.conf
>>    12 ++++++++
>>   trunk/package/x86/grub/grub.desc
>>     6 +++-
>>   trunk/package/x86/grub/no-menu-border.patch
>>    19 ++++++++++++
>>     
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