Re: [BUG+Experiences] grub2 on ppc

[Marco Gerards <metgerards@student.han.nl>]

Nico -telmich- Schottelius <nico-linux-grub@schottelius.org> writes:

>> Sure, you can expect it at the end of Juni or before that if possible.
>> I have some code already.  I beg people not to work on it because of
>> that, it will be done!
>
> June is a bit far away, but perhaps I'll copy my kernel on a hfs
> partition for testing (I always thought leaving macosx there is a good
> thing ;-).

lol

Make sure it is HFS and not HFS+.  HFS+ is just like XFS on my todo
list.  If it is important please tell me, as for now no one *needed*
it yet.

>> > 3. grub once killed itself/hangup: I typed
>> >    linux (hd,3)/usr<TAB> (hda4 == my /)
>> >    But I cannot reproduce it!
>> 
>> Which filesystem is used on (hd,3)?
>
> xfs

Right, so an unknown filesystem can make it crash.  Perhaps it is
caused by a faulty probe of some other filesystem module.  Which
filesystem modules were loaded?

>> > 4. When typing
>> >    linux (hd3)/<tab> grub does NOT say "no such device" or something
>> >    similar, but prints a new line. For someone who does not see the
>> >    typo, he'll be the one who asks on support channels.
>> 
>> Right.  This can be done if that is what everyone expects...
>
> Well or at least don't print a new line+prompt. That makes me think
> 'oh the expansion is ready|completed'.

I will have a look.

>> >    Btw, the same behaviour is seen when doing
>> >    linux (hd,3)<tab> (on the not readable xfs partition). I really
>> >    would like to see "Cannot read that filesystem (yet)."-message.
>> 
>> Tab completion does not print errors at all.
>
> I thought I saw that in grub1

Ok.  I will try GRUB Legacy.  I think GRUB 2 and GRUB Legacy should
work the same for tab completion.

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Marco