From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Subject: Re: reiser4 and grub2 Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:33:36 +1100 Message-ID: <33d69d2b913d7597730de74df6c5c3eb@mail.velocitynet.com.au> References: <712869e4bd3f8a89f431df5ffb8097b9@cs.karelia.ru> <4CBC37E3.3050301@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4CBC37E3.3050301@gmail.com> Sender: reiserfs-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 14:04:51 +0200, Edward Shishkin wrote: > sannikov wrote: >> Good day. >> > > Hello. > >> I want to ask you about reiser4 and grub-2. >> >> I am try to write to Yuriy Umanets but his mailboxes are inactive... >> Some few days ago I findes his request about this. >> (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2008-02/msg00263.html) >> >> If it is possible, can you describe current state of Raiser4 support in >> Grub2. >> > > Unsupported. > >> As I know this task yet placed in Grub's TODO list. >> I hope this idea yet alive. >> > > I didn't look at grub2/fs interface yet, but believe that it > is better then grub1's one. > > There is a patch for reiser4 support in grub1. I don't > think it will be a big problem to adjust this one for grub2: > the sources are quite understandable. > > The only thing I am unhappy with is that it can not boot > reiser4 via module stage1_5 (it is too big and can not > fit in 62 sectors), It means that user will need to re-install > grub every time after defragmentation (currently > unsupported, but upcoming). So it would be nice to resolve > this problem in grub2 somehow. > > Btrfs stage1_5 module with multi-device support > successfully fits in 62 sectors. Why reiser4 can not? > I think we need to get rid of the mini-library with a lot > of unneeded functions and put everything in one file > (as other file systems do). > > Thanks, > Edward. > Looks like some others have had a go at compiling grub2 ,see: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/reinauer/openSUSE_11.2/i586/grub2-1.98-18.1.i586.rpm http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/reinauer/openSUSE_11.2/src/grub2-1.98-18.1.src.rpm http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/reinauer/openSUSE_11.3/i586/grub2-1.98-18.1.i586.rpm http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/reinauer/openSUSE_11.3/src/grub2-1.98-18.1.src.rpm http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/reinauer/openSUSE_11.3/x86_64/grub2-1.98-18.1.x86_64.rpm http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/reinauer/openSUSE_Factory/i586/grub2-1.98-18.1.i586.rpm http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/reinauer/openSUSE_Factory/src/grub2-1.98-18.1.src.rpm http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/reinauer/openSUSE_Factory/x86_64/grub2-1.98-18.1.x86_64.rpm Glenn