Super Grub2 Disk 2.00 beta 3 released

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This is the changelog:

  • Removed innecessary floppy seek
  • Fixed berlios #18907 bug. Now both /boot-isos and /boot/boot-isos directories should work

If you want to translate into your language please check TRANSLATION file at source code to learn how to translate into your language.
This is a beta release so please comment any issue you find at the forum.

Well, I wanted to release version an special secret version of Super Grub2 Disk and in the meanwhile I did find some innecesary floppy seeks when using it in an actual machine and I did want to fix that. Fix is not complete but it improves SG2D usage. I also fixed that /boot-isos and /boot/boot-isos error (where only the first directory was searched) for those of you that try to use SG2D for booting loop-boot capable distributions. I’m not providing GZ or ZIP files because I think I will release another SG2D beta soon. I’ve become quite addicted to develop SG2D. I don’t like SG2D myself because I see that the future is Rescatux but… when you get into developing it… knowing the Grub2 scripting stuff and its insights it’s fun and addictive!

More than this I want to release an stable version of SG2D soon because it’s too long with the beta versions hanging around. And, of course, the special secret version needs an stable SG2D version so that I don’t have to release it twice.
(adrian15 speaking)

Super Grub2 Disk 2.00 beta 1 released

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A big thank you to Jordan Uggla for making: Super Grub2 Disk 2.00 beta 1.

This is the changelog:

Translations:
  Malay (Thanks go to SlamberGamer)
 German (Thanks go to Jan Black)
 French (Thanks go to Daniel_KM)
 Spanish (Updated to use special characters. adrian15)

* Based on Grub 2.00
* Added support for BSD and Sunpc partition tables
* i18n support was rewritten for supporting special characters and * for using gettext
* Enable options are now inside a single submenu: Enable extra GRUB2 functionality
* Many other bug fixes

If you want to translate into your language please check TRANSLATION file at source code to learn how to translate into your language.
This is a beta release so please comment any issue you find at the forum.

It’s Alive!!! It’s Alive!!!

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After three days of fighting I have managed to make SG2D to boot Rescatux from its iso file.

Thanks goes to SynrG, dba and chals from #debian-live. And an special thanks to mrud from #grml which did find the final workaround that involved using fromiso.

The current workaround might be improved with a proper solution in upstream so that the loopback.cfg generation on debian live is very easy to implement.

You will have to wait a bit till you see a release that includes Rescatux and Super Grub2 Disk.

I need to fix some details such as having a nice background at super grub2 disk part which it is the main screen that you see.

And… of course… the architecture autodetect feature so that it autoboots into Rescatux 64bit or Rescatux 32bit according to your architecture.

Doc: How to put Super Grub2 Disk into a usb

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Update 04 Dic 2013: Check Put Super Grub2 Disk into an usb pendrive instead.

I have finally added the official documentation about how to put Super Grub2 Disk into a usb.

As it is explained in instructions. These instructions wipe your pendrive / usb device. So you loose all of its contents. So make sure you backup anything important on them.

And I ask you to give us feedback about the windows instructions. Either in the mailing list, the forum, chat or even as a comment in this post. We should know if dd complains about the device name or not.

The non official documentation (probably using unetbootin or yumi) is still lacking. Let’s hope that I can add it in next week. And Rescatux instructions too ;).

Super Grub2 Disk 1.99 beta 1 released

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After so much long I am pleased to announce: Super Grub2 Disk 1.99 beta 1.

This is the changelog:

  • Added support for Fedora’s grub.cfg (/boot/grub2 and /grub2 path)
  • Lua scripts were rewritten to cfg scripts so that they are more grub friendly
  • Colour was added which can be on or off
  • Super Grub2 Disk and its version is shown at main menu
  • Added basic translation system
  • Super Grub2 Disk was translated to Spanish
  • Based on Debian’s Grub 1.99

We need translators! Please check TRANSLATION file at source code to learn how to translate into your language.

Translations no longer needed:

  • Malay
  • German

 

This is a beta release so please comment any issue you find at the forum.

I Super Grub Disk World Conference summary

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Summary: Although we run out of time in the quest of including Super Grub2 Disk into Rescatux some work was done in a development machine kindly given by bTactic.

Notice: New people are welcome to help in the chat channel. It seems that people ask for help there and we are not there as often as needed. So… Maybe one of you want to help on building a wiki with FAQ from the chat channels? Just join it and present yourself.

From August 29th 2011 to August 31th 2011 the I Super Grub Disk World Conference was held in a secret place in California, USA.

Jordan Uggla and I met and tried to include Super Grub2 Disk into Rescatux. Unfortunately some problems in our hack planning made us run of time.

But some work was done. We have set up a development machine kindly given by bTactic to speed up Rescatux and Super Grub2 Disk integration. Now the problem is the lack of time. Coming back from my trip to California I found too many tasks on my desk. 🙂 And I suppose that Jordan has his own duties too.

About the hack that we did. You know. You might think that having three days for hacking Super Grub2 Disk integration into Rescatux is too much. And that’s it. You are right. If you had a development environment ready and just want to add Super Grub2 Disk to Rescatux, that’s it. That’s easy!

But it would only have been once.

What we were trying to achieve is to:

  • Hack the debian-live scripts to boot from grub2 instead of isolinux.
  • Add the Super Grub2 Disk scripts into the disk (but not inside the chroot).
  • Send patches to debian-live

and that’s what we will continue to do when we have some free time ;).

You were supposed to see here a photo of the Rescatux / Super Grub2 Disk hacking. I always dreamt of doing it. Just a photo of the I Super Grub Disk World Conference with the two of us. Wow, 2 attendees! But, this is the great thing about hacking, once you are on it you loose your mind. XD