Re: [PATCH/DRAFT] Support linux boot protocol >= 2.02 long command-lines

[Vesa Jääskeläinen]

Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
> On 5/2/08, Vesa Jääskeläinen <address@hidden> wrote:
> >  Hi Alon,
> >
> >  Actually I meant that I have used it before in vmware desktop and it worked
> > fine. So I was wondering when it got broken and how did exactly you try it
> > out to reproduce the issue here. Because grub 2 "has to" work in vmware too
> > :)
> >
> >  Eg. tell that you ran this and this. And then did that.
>
> I run:
> grub-install /dev/hda
>
> Nothing special... on boot I grub starts and goes into rescue prompt.
> There is no proper documentation... So I don't know what else I can do.
> I think I have a proper grub.cfg but I don't think I got to the stage
> it actually can be read. As ls command command shows empty output.

I just built current CVS and tried it with my old scripts. Didn't 
install it to /dev/hda as cannot test it without reinstall ;)... but 
made core.img with modules: chain fat biosdisk. Installed it to floppy 
and then booted that floppy in vmware desktop 5.5.4.

Even graphics mode seem to work.

I can provide this test floppy if you want to test it out?

> >  I think lspci might also need some device database. So if it cannot load it
> > may fail. But lets first tackle this vmware problem :)
>
> But this is basic... the module is loaded... I understand that the
> disk may not be detected, but I expect command to be available.

insmod pci
insmod lspci
lspci