Re: status grub2 port of grub-legasy map command

[John Stanley <jpsinthemix@verizon.net>]

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.
>