From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1JoQNL-0000F8-VJ for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:50:07 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JoQNJ-0000EJ-7T for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:50:05 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JoQNH-0000Cx-MS for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:50:04 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JoQNH-0000Cp-Jo for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:50:03 -0400 Received: from c60.cesmail.net ([216.154.195.49]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_ARCFOUR_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JoQNG-0002Bj-PH for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:50:03 -0400 Received: from unknown (HELO relay.cesmail.net) ([192.168.1.81]) by c60.cesmail.net with ESMTP; 22 Apr 2008 17:50:00 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.21] (static-72-92-88-10.phlapa.fios.verizon.net [72.92.88.10]) by relay.cesmail.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23FFB619058 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:50:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Pavel Roskin To: The development of GRUB 2 In-Reply-To: <20080421173936.35123e63@gamma.bennetthome.net> References: <480D0056.8030603@nic.fi> <20080421173936.35123e63@gamma.bennetthome.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:49:59 -0400 Message-Id: <1208900999.25452.7.camel@dv> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.3 (2.12.3-4.fc8) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: Google's Summer of Code 2008 / GRUB 2 X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:50:05 -0000 On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 17:39 -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote: > On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:00:06 +0300 > Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: > > We want to welcome both Colin and Marco to be part of GRUB 2! > > Hi, > I'm going to be working on the "Fancy Menus" feature for GRUB 2. > > Once I begin producing real code, I will have my Bazaar VCS > development branch available on my web site for anyone interested, as > well as periodic tarballs. I'll use the GRUB 2 wiki to document the > design and implementation as things move forward. Just in case, there is a git mirror of the repository, updated every 2 hours. More information here: http://repo.or.cz/w/grub2.git > Currently I am getting familiar with the GRUB codebase and design. I'm > going to try to get GRUB 2 booting in QEMU so I can get faster feedback > during development. ./autogen.sh && ./configure && make -j2 ./grub-mkrescue --pkglibdir=. --grub-mkimage=./grub-mkimage grub.iso qemu -cdrom grub.iso That will make a bootable CD image using only files from the source directory and boot it in qemu. You may need to use the --overlay option to grub-mkrescue to include fonts, the menu, the fancy stuff etc :-) -- Regards, Pavel Roskin