Re: success booting hdt.c32 module with memdisk

[J. Bakshi]

On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:54:28 +0100
Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko <address@hidden> wrote:

> J. Bakshi wrote:
> > On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:41:17 +0100
> > Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> Hello
> >> J. Bakshi wrote:
> >>     
> >>> Hello list,
> >>>
> >>> Finally I got success booting hdt.c32 module ( hdt = hardware
> >>> detection tool) with the latest floppy image released by hdt team.
> >>> hdt.c32 is a syslinux module. As per their suggestion the
> >>> following config works for me from usb stick.
> >>>
> >>> menuentry HDT {
> >>> linux16 /memdisk
> >>> initrd16 /<hdt_floppy_image>
> >>> }
> >>>
> >>> Though it would be nice to see grub's power to directly load
> >>> syslinux module like this one :-)
> >>>
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >> I would be happy to have syslinux com32 glue level. Are you
> >> willing to code one?
> >>     
> >
> > I would Love to do so but as a Linux sysadmin my programming
> > knowledge is restricted in shell-script :-( If you permit me and
> > show me the direction then I can ask the required info at hdt group.
> >
> >   
> Basically you just need to get coding
> 1) Verify that the module is under compatible license
> 2) Put it into grub2 directory and add to rmk file
> 3) Fix all compile errors
> Binary compatibility is more difficult to get binary compatibility but
> is probably useless too as anyway you can't have non GPLv3+-compatible
> modules so source compatibility is enough. Additionally having them as
> source in grub-extras potentially makes it useful on non-pc as well
> 

Ok, then let me collect the license info first and the required module 
dependency from hdt group. I am sure inclusion of hdt in grub2 will give it an 
extra potential :-)