Hi, On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:03:35 +0900, Jiro SEKIBA <jir@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > > It would be nice if you could tell us belief usage of the patch. s/belief/brief/ ;) > OK, sure. It's against bazaar repository, so you have to build > it from repository source instead of latest stable release tarball. > > To build with stable release(1.97.2), you need to modify fs/nilfs2.c > not to use grub_xasprintf, but use grub_malloc and grub_sprintf. > > You may get reject for makefile, but I think it'll be OK. > > > Here are the instruction to retrieve grub repository and build the softoware. > > $ bzr branch http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/grub/trunk/grub > $ cd grub > $ patch -p0 < /path/to/the/patch > $ sh autogen.sh > $ ./configure > $ make > > you need "make install" as usual. It will install under /usr/local > without giving any parameters for ./configure. > > The "make install" won't install grub to MBR. > To install grub into MBR, you have to "grub-install" to target disk. > > For example, assume that you have nilfs2 filesystem on hdb1, > mounted on /mnt and want to enable hdb as bootable. You'll do > > # grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/hdb > > This will install grub into hdb's MBR and other required files into > following 32KiB blocks. Fuhtermore, it'll install files under > /mnt/boot/grub. Those files are not required to boot grub to read > the filesystem. > > hdb is now self bootable disk. You'll just connect it as hdb and > grub will boot up. > > Note, during grub-install, /boog/grub/grub.cfg will be copied int to > /mnt/boo/grub, which is not the one for hdb. So you have edit menu > at first time you boot with hdb. After boot the system, you can reproduce > the menu by grub-mkcofnig > /boot/grub/grub.cfg > > Enjoy! Thank you once again. I'll catch up the above steps and then comment later. Ryusuke -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nilfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
