Re: Don`t understand error message

[Robert Millan]

On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 11:45:55PM +0200, Thierry Laronde wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 04:35:58PM +0000, Robert Millan wrote:
> > 
> > Uhm.. that's interesting. Have you played with GRUB on *BSD? There are some
> > things that need polishing (like UFS2 or device access from GRUB shell).
> 
> I don't want to start some flamewars, but I will simply say that I'm not
> quite sure that it is worth the effort now, I mean that GRUB 1.0 is kind
> of a dead end (and if Okuji has started to work on PUPA there may be
> some good reasons).

Have you considered adding such features to PUPA? They would be equaly useful
there.

> I'm not quite convinced that the so-called GRUB shell is the correct way
> for the installation,

If you have some ideas, you should be pointing them out.

> and for the filesystem I wonder if it would not be
> better to support a "common one" that is a... tar file or, better, a
> POSIX pax one...

I don't see the problem with that. I don't think Okuji will like tarfs or
paxfs in GRUB 0.9x but it's probably welcome in PUPA.

Btw, I recall that the GNU system doesn't have any native filesystem yet. For
example we have gnu ext2fs and gnu ufs (filesystem servers, both part of the
Hurd package)

-- 
Robert Millan

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