On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 19:44, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:

On Fri, 2 Mar 2012 15:03:28 +0100 "Arokux B." wrote:

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Hi,

The Google Summer of Code Page [1] lists GRUB2 as a possible feature for AIF.

I wonder if this is a random idea or is it rather backed by majority of devs.

Thanks Arokux

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=Google_Summer_of_Code

random idea.

It won't take much time to add grub2 support to AIF from Archboot, if I can convert the DIALOG command to the corresponding lib-ui ones. But right now grub2 is undergoing some changes (upstream) with the recent release of 2.00~beta0 and I am hacking Archboot to make the corresponding changes since the install process is also changing slightly. I guess once grub2 is stabilized, gpt+grub2+uefi support can be added to aif as a whole, or maybe with the larger process of actually merging Archboot's setup script (which is far better than AIF in the number of newer features/technologies it supports). So whose with me on merging the setup script, instead of just grub2/gpt inclusion? Regards. Keshav

On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 22:27, Arokux B. wrote:

On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Keshav P R wrote:

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On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 19:44, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:

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On Fri, 2 Mar 2012 15:03:28 +0100 "Arokux B." wrote:

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Hi,

The Google Summer of Code Page [1] lists GRUB2 as a possible feature for AIF.

I wonder if this is a random idea or is it rather backed by majority of devs.

Thanks Arokux

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=Google_Summer_of_Code

random idea.

It won't take much time to add grub2 support to AIF from Archboot, if I can convert the DIALOG command to the corresponding lib-ui ones. But right now grub2 is undergoing some changes (upstream) with the recent release of 2.00~beta0 and I am hacking Archboot to make the corresponding changes since the install process is also changing slightly.

I guess once grub2 is stabilized, gpt+grub2+uefi support can be added to aif as a whole, or maybe with the larger process of actually merging Archboot's setup script (which is far better than AIF in the number of newer features/technologies it supports).

So whose with me on merging the setup script, instead of just grub2/gpt inclusion?

This is more like a suggestion. I don't have time to participate in SOC due to reasons mentioned below. But this would solve the issue of havinf to maintain 2 install scripts for Archlinux (in 2 different isos).

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Regards.

Keshav

I'm with you, but I'm a complete newbie. Will you mentor me? ;)

Thanks Arokux

Mentor you? I thought I should ask someone to mentor me (if I wanted to participate). But I am busy with my undergrad course/project and don't have time for SOC type stuff, not to mention that computer/software is not my undergrad field, to actually participate in these SOC projects (its mechanical). Anyway good luck to you. For a start look at Archboot's setup script https://projects.archlinux.org/archboot.git/tree/usr/share/archboot/installe... for ideas (and try to merge the script with AIF or port the Archboot script to lib-ui if possible). It is feature rich, but by no means easy to read (its also a 1 big scripts as opposed to AIF's many files approach). Regards. Keshav

On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 22:43, Arokux B. wrote:

Thanks. I'll take a look at it.

I'm not going to participate in SoC either. Mentor = help.

Yeah. That I can do (especially doubts regarding grub2-bios, grub2-uefi and gpt partitioning code in Archboot setup). - Keshav