Re: status grub2 port of grub-legasy map command

[phcoder <phcoder@gmail.com>]

I haven't yet looked in depth in drivemap patch but it has some 
problems. It uses preboot hook interface for which I proposed an update 
in my recent patch "preboot hooks". Also it doesn't update memorymap 
correctly. For this it should use my "mmap services" interface
John Stanley wrote:
> Thanks Felix,
> 
> Hurm.. Well, if anyone is interested, I have just made a couple of 
> additional updates to the drivemap.path.8 code,
> and now with r2104 the "unaligned pointer" issue is gone, and it is 
> working great on my systems. I can post the patch if you or anyone else 
> is interested.
> John
> 
> 
> Felix Zielcke wrote:
>> Am Montag, den 13.04.2009, 21:03 -0400 schrieb John Stanley:
>>  
>>> Hi all,
>>> I was wondering what the current status of a grub2 port of the 
>>> grub-0.97 "map" and "rootnoverify" commands is?  I have found some 
>>> work done to this end in the "drivemap.patch" work, but I find 
>>> nothing more recent than drivemap.patch.8 dated around Aug 2008.
>>>     
>>
>> The current status of it are exactly what you found out.
>> I don't know if that'll ever change.
>>
>>
>>  
>>> Could anyone give me any pointers/direction on what might be 
>>> happening here? Could it be that the "norootverify"-functionality of 
>>> grub-legasy is lacking here? Or, perhaps, that the "--force" option 
>>> is not being honored ?
>>>     
>>
>> rootnoverify isn't needed anymore, because root is now just a variable
>> and not anymore a command which tried to verify it. So basically
>> rootnoverify is default now.
>> chainloader --force just skips the check for 0xaa55, normally it
>> shouldn't be needed with a valid windows bootsector.
>>   
> 
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