On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 14:04:51 +0200, Edward Shishkin <edward.shishkin@xxxxxxxxx> 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe reiserfs-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
