HDT 0.3.2 is out and mainly add a better disk management My previous work on disks was a little bit limited and incomplete. Since pierre did a massive rework that allow hdt to feature disks & partitions detection. On the menu side, the "Disk" menu is now extended to show disks' partitions. On the cli side, we now have more commands : hdt> show disk This command will show a basic output of available disks. hdt> disk This command enable the disk mode disk> show disks This command list all available disks disk> show disk 0x80 Display the maximum information of disk 0x80 This output includes disk' partitions. 0.3.2 is also featuring the modules.alias compatibility. This item was requested by users, this is now implemented. By default, hdt tries to open both modules.pcimap & modules.alias to find the associated kernel modules. To override the default values, users can use the modules_pcimap=<filename> and modules_alias=<filename> boot options. Some minor visual improvements/bug fixes were also done regarding the VPD, PCI & memory display. Note that hdt's menu is now using the full screen instead of having a black line at the bottom of the screen. Enjoy this release ! 0.3.2 is available at : http://konilope.linuxeries.org/hdt/hdt_0_3_2.c32 Feel free to report any bugs/comments/ideas on HDT's mailing list: http://www.zytor.com/mailman/listinfo/hdt Erwan & Pierre,
On Sat, 2 May 2009, Erwan Velu wrote:> HDT 0.3.2 is out and mainly add a better disk management > > My previous work on disks was a little bit limited and incomplete. > Since pierre did a massive rework that allow hdt to feature disks & > partitions detection. > > On the menu side, the "Disk" menu is now extended to show disks' partitions. > On the cli side, we now have more commands : > > hdt> show disk > This command will show a basic output of available disks. > > hdt> disk > This command enable the disk mode > > disk> show disks > This command list all available disks > > disk> show disk 0x80 > Display the maximum information of disk 0x80 > This output includes disk' partitions. > > 0.3.2 is also featuring the modules.alias compatibility. This item was > requested by users, this is now implemented. > By default, hdt tries to open both modules.pcimap & modules.alias to > find the associated kernel modules. > To override the default values, users can use the > modules_pcimap=<filename> and modules_alias=<filename> boot options. > > Some minor visual improvements/bug fixes were also done regarding the > VPD, PCI & memory display. > > Note that hdt's menu is now using the full screen instead of having a black > line at the bottom of the screen.Perfect, it works really great. I tried it inside Qemu and on my thinkpad X200s. I found one bug. I booted from an SDHC card and I saw both disks with the correct information, but the partitioning of my second (internal) disk was actually the same as my SDHC card. So somewhere the partitioning information is mixed up. This is easy to test in qemu using: qemu -hdc /dev/sdb -hdd /dev/sda -m 1024 -smp 2 Another remark I have is that the gray that shows most of the information is hard to read on the blue background. I would prefer normal white or maybe light cyan or light blue. Copying the modules.pcimap over worked great this time. Another job well done. I hope it ships with the next syslinux so it gets to the biggest audience through distributions ! -- -- dag wieers, dag at wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]
On Sat, 2 May 2009, Dag Wieers wrote:> On Sat, 2 May 2009, Erwan Velu wrote: > >> HDT 0.3.2 is out and mainly add a better disk management >-snip-> So somewhere the partitioning information is mixed up. This is easy to test > in qemu using:-snip-> Another remark I have is that the gray that shows most of the information is > hard to read on the blue background. I would prefer normal white or maybe > light cyan or light blue.I found one other small problem which is related to the HDT command line, if you use your arrows on an exising command, go back on the prompt remove a character and then type, you see the position is one off. Having the cursor visible would be useful too :-) -- -- dag wieers, dag at wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]
Erwan Velu wrote:> 0.3.2 is also featuring the modules.alias compatibility. This item was > requested by users, this is now implemented.Can we get this ("pci: Adding get_module_name_from_alias()") into mainline? Updating mainlines hdt from 0.3.1 to 0.3.2 would be nice too. - Sebastian
On Sunday 03 May 2009 ? 08:45:07PM, Sebastian Herbszt wrote:> Can we get this ("pci: Adding get_module_name_from_alias()") into mainline? > Updating mainlines hdt from 0.3.1 to 0.3.2 would be nice too.NACK. Unfortunately, the disklib is still severely broken (a INT 10, AH=0x4F00 is for some reason necessary before getting EDD). But ACK as soon as I fix that. -- Pierre-Alexandre Meyer