From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1KNCNJ-0003QZ-15 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:57:49 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KNCNG-0003ON-Ve for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:57:47 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KNCNF-0003Mw-EJ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:57:45 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40068 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KNCNE-0003MO-NE for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:57:44 -0400 Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:63438) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KNCNE-0008JX-Ge for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:57:44 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KNCND-0003Gj-IT for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:57:43 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KNBpv-0002hp-Vd for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:23:20 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KNBvP-00026u-2T for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:28:59 +0200 Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:28:58 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080727192857.GA7361@thorin> References: <3FA357AE49694559941A663191155DE2@fz> <5A50C2D990914B3F8A73A02D520E8DED@fz> <1216918145.22586.14.camel@dv> <20080725210840.GA19505@thorin> <1217022420.3957.3.camel@dv> <20080725221050.GA31179@thorin> <1217034532.6376.13.camel@dv> <20080727121914.GA11242@thorin> <1217176183.4029.20.camel@ct> <20080727183737.GB16393@thorin> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20080727183737.GB16393@thorin> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) Subject: UUID boot on ieee1275 (Re: [PATCH] use UUIDs for cross-disk installs (Re: Issue with boot != root and chainloading)) 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: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 19:57:48 -0000 On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 08:37:37PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > I'm not satisfied with the current user interface of that script, but I > couldn't think of any better way to do it back then. If you can improve > it that'd be much welcome. > > Btw, I'm currently working on adding --prefix / uuid support to our > ieee1275 ports. I'll send a patch RSN. Here it is. For powerpc it'd need some adjustment to start.S. Unfortunately my patch appears to uncover a memory corruption problem somewhere else, which I haven't managed to track down yet. But I'd still like to know if it works on other setups. -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What good is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.)