From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1FPGHy-00042T-3P for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 04:51:30 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FPGHw-00042E-6u for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 04:51:28 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FPGHu-000422-P7 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 04:51:27 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FPGHu-00041z-Is for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 04:51:26 -0500 Received: from [194.109.24.24] (helo=smtp-vbr4.xs4all.nl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FPGKH-0003Dz-1f for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 04:53:53 -0500 Received: from localhost.localdomain (249-174.surfsnel.dsl.internl.net [145.99.174.249]) by smtp-vbr4.xs4all.nl (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k2V9pO5m090358 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 11:51:25 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mgerards@xs4all.nl) Mail-Copies-To: mgerards@xs4all.nl To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <642564037.20060331055951@opanki.ru> From: Marco Gerards Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 11:52:05 +0200 In-Reply-To: <642564037.20060331055951@opanki.ru> (Sergey Ya. Korshunoff's message of "Fri, 31 Mar 2006 05:59:51 +0400") Message-ID: <871wwjhrga.fsf@xs4all.nl> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Subject: Re: grub 1.92 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: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 09:51:28 -0000 "Sergey Ya. Korshunoff" writes: Hi Sergey, > grub 1.92 is already quite usefull. > I use it as a boot loader in my GENTOO partition. > > But current version of GRUB2 (1.93 from CVS) reports about pointer misaligment and hangs > (no any text menu posiible). Any plans to fix this? (I use x86 hardware). Right, this is what happens when a parse error occurs. This is a big problem and my highest priority. > Suggestions about grub2 1.92 > > 1) Make it possible to coexist with grub 0.97: > -- /boot/grub2 intstead of /boot/grub as target for install scripts > -- rename scripts to grub2-install etc... > -- /usr/lib/grub2 and etc.... > > Then user can select wich version of grub to install on some > partition It's a replacement. But I think there is a configure feature that allows you to rename binaries and scripts before installing. The /boot/grub directory being shared should not course any problems. > 2) It is nice to keep clean /boot/grub2 from modules (put them in > subdir like /boot/grub2/modules) There were some discussions about subdirectories for the kinds of modules. Like fs/, commands/, etc. But I do not remember the outcome of that discussion. :-) > 3) some grub-cfg.txt with sample menu for grub2-install to put into > /boot/grub2 (as it do with fs.lst and modules.lst) When I fixed things, I will put an example on the wiki. > Currenly user need to search sources to find default name for menu and > how is can look. What do you mean? > 4) Minor error: when pager=1 then it works and in menu mode (when we > ask to edit some menu line or return back). And maybe pager=1 by > defaults? Do you mean it should be disabled in the menu editor? I do not think it is wise to enable it by default. But you could put it in your grub.cfg. -- Marco