From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1FWWBg-0007g5-9I for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 06:15:00 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FWWBe-0007f5-S1 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 06:14:58 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FWWBb-0007dN-JY for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 06:14:56 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FWWBb-0007dJ-DP for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 06:14:55 -0400 Received: from [193.144.10.29] (helo=relay1.udl.es) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FWWCu-00050M-4W for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 06:16:16 -0400 Received: from jupiter.udl.net (jupiter.udl.net [172.16.2.2]) by relay1.udl.es (8.13.6/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k3KAETvZ005480 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 12:14:43 +0200 Received: from [172.16.2.184] (eup35_04 [172.16.2.184]) by jupiter.udl.net (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id k3KA8cf26460 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 12:08:38 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <44475DA7.7090307@raulete.net> Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 12:08:39 +0200 From: adrian15 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: grub-devel@gnu.org References: <200604081604.k38G4NRj030613@dell01.dinaserver.com> In-Reply-To: <200604081604.k38G4NRj030613@dell01.dinaserver.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88/1409/Wed Apr 19 23:02:41 2006 on relay1.udl.es X-Virus-Status: Clean Subject: Re: proposals for grub2 (i think 3rd email) 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: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 10:14:59 -0000 > adrian15 writes: > > >>2) Being able to mount tar.gz files. > Why? This was a real need with my stupid implementation of Grub Legacy on Super Grub Disk that made me having a lot of different little lst files (till 8000 files) and thus made it impossible to save it into a floppy. (You know 8000 files occuppy more space than these 8000 files in a single tar and if it is gz is smaller) Due to the script nature of "lst?" files of grub2 I think there won't be need of such a feature. At least I won't need it. Maybe other people will need it but let's not insist on this proposal then. >>3) Being able to mount loopback devices. > This is possible already. GREAT! >>4) Mapping partitions directly to Grub partitions. Is it possible ? > Huh? I know that Grub does not take in account partitions as a single entity but rather devices that can have or not its partitions. I am not very sure but I suppose that there are some ocassions where it is useful to treat partitions as a single entity such as from inside the grub shell inside a linux shell using the device command (which could be renamed to partition) and trying to access to a "partition" that could be: * A partition from these new things called: Logical Volume Manager (LVM) * A partition that has being "dded" to a file and thus don't need to be a hard disk image. (I'm talking about a file because you say that you can loopback!) That's all for the reply! But there's an idea left. ================ The other day I was talking with a friend about the development of Super Grub Disk and specifically on the part of Grub Legacy Source Code. He told me that we could manage to build a c function so that it creates on the fly a menu on which you could choose all the hard disks and then all the partitions of the hard disks but not fixed ones (Let's say from 1st to 20th partitions) but real ones... if you have 3 partitions you only see 3 partitions... if you have 4 partitions you only see 4 partitions. Would there some kind of function/menu that let the user select its own partitions detected by grub on grub2? adrian15