New developer available :)

New developer available :)

[Collin Gregory]

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Hello everyone,

My name is Greg and i'm a french developper. I'm very interested in helping
for the grub 2 development. My skills are C++ , C and assembly, i'm using
linux for 6 years now and i'm sure i can help, if you would agree to !

I'm very interested in Video part of the project, can i do something or
integrate a current team that works on it ?

Regards to everyone,

Grégory

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Re: New developer available :)

[Vesa Jääskeläinen]

Collin Gregory wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> My name is Greg and i'm a french developper. I'm very interested in 
> helping for the grub 2 development. My skills are C++ , C and assembly, 
> i'm using linux for 6 years now and i'm sure i can help, if you would 
> agree to !
> 
> I'm very interested in Video part of the project, can i do something or 
> integrate a current team that works on it ?

Hi Collin,

Colin Bennett is working under Google's Summer of Code 2008 program to 
create graphical menu for GRUB 2. So at least during GSoC 2008 duration 
I would not recommend working on the same thing.

But anyway... What did you have in mind? Do you know vector graphics? Or 
do you have other platforms than x86-pcbios?

Thanks,
Vesa Jääskeläinen

Re: New developer available :)

[Robert Millan]

On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 02:29:19PM +0200, Collin Gregory wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> My name is Greg and i'm a french developper. I'm very interested in helping
> for the grub 2 development. My skills are C++ , C and assembly, i'm using
> linux for 6 years now and i'm sure i can help, if you would agree to !

Hi Collin,

Help is very welcome.  You can just go ahead, find something you can do
to improve GRUB and do it.  But as Vesa said be careful if you want to work
on graphics since this area is being actively worked on as part of GSoC.

If you need ideas, you could check the list of proposals we made for this
year's GSoC [1], or our bug tracking system for issues that need care [2].

(but to get started with grub, I recommends something less boring than
processing bugs)

[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-soc.html
[2] https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=grub

-- 
Robert Millan

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Re: New developer available :)

[walt]

Collin Gregory wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> My name is Greg and i'm a french developper. I'm very interested in
> helping for the grub 2 development. My skills are C++ , C and assembly,
> i'm using linux for 6 years now and i'm sure i can help, if you would
> agree to !...

Hi Greg,

I have an idea for your consideration.  I'm using grub4dos because
grub2 won't (yet) boot a floppy image or chainload Vista's bootmgr.
If you would merge those functions from grub4dos into grub2 I'd be
grateful.

Re: New developer available :)

[Bean]

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 4:43 AM, walt <w41ter@gmail.com> wrote:
> Collin Gregory wrote:
>>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> My name is Greg and i'm a french developper. I'm very interested in
>> helping for the grub 2 development. My skills are C++ , C and assembly,
>> i'm using linux for 6 years now and i'm sure i can help, if you would
>> agree to !...
>
> Hi Greg,
>
> I have an idea for your consideration.  I'm using grub4dos because
> grub2 won't (yet) boot a floppy image or chainload Vista's bootmgr.
> If you would merge those functions from grub4dos into grub2 I'd be
> grateful.

Hi,

Well, you can actually achieve these function with some external
tools. Using memdisk, you can emulate a floppy/harddisk image, and
with loadbin, you can chainload ntldr/bootmgr/grldr/stage2, etc.

-- 
Bean

Re: New developer available :)

[walt]

Bean wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 4:43 AM, walt<w41ter@gmail.com>  wrote:
>> ...I'm using grub4dos because
>> grub2 won't (yet) boot a floppy image or chainload Vista's bootmgr.

> Hi,
>
> Well, you can actually achieve these function with some external
> tools. Using memdisk, you can emulate a floppy/harddisk image, and
> with loadbin, you can chainload ntldr/bootmgr/grldr/stage2, etc.

Hi Bean,

Have you tried booting a dos floppy image with memdisk lately?

I just tried memdisk-3.52 on two different machines using both legacy
and grub2, and nothing worked.  After printing several lines of info
and some hex numbers it prints this:

Loading boot sector...booting...
Starting...

and then the machine hangs forever, needing a hard reset to reboot.
My test image was made from a fresh and tested floppy which I made
using WinXP.

Can anyone duplicate this?  Or not?

Thanks!

Re: New developer available :)

[Bean]

On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 5:59 AM, walt <w41ter@gmail.com> wrote:
> Bean wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 4:43 AM, walt<w41ter@gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> ...I'm using grub4dos because
>>> grub2 won't (yet) boot a floppy image or chainload Vista's bootmgr.
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Well, you can actually achieve these function with some external
>> tools. Using memdisk, you can emulate a floppy/harddisk image, and
>> with loadbin, you can chainload ntldr/bootmgr/grldr/stage2, etc.
>
> Hi Bean,
>
> Have you tried booting a dos floppy image with memdisk lately?
>
> I just tried memdisk-3.52 on two different machines using both legacy
> and grub2, and nothing worked.  After printing several lines of info
> and some hex numbers it prints this:
>
> Loading boot sector...booting...
> Starting...
>
> and then the machine hangs forever, needing a hard reset to reboot.
> My test image was made from a fresh and tested floppy which I made
> using WinXP.
>
> Can anyone duplicate this?  Or not?

Hi,

Perhaps you can try some older version as well, like 3.11 or so. Also,
you can add raw or bigraw parameter to memdisk, it instructs memdisk
to access memory directly instead of relying on int 15, which can be
buggy in some machine.

-- 
Bean