new CBD Patch and Bugs

[Shaun Savage]

HI

ANNOUNCE:
Here is the new CBD patch.  It has been tested and works with linux
kernel 2.4.0 with kernel patch cbd-2.4.0-1.tar.gz  (See
www.infomatec.de/cbd for more info).  The patch date of CVS is
2000-01-22.
to be added to Change.log
"Added Compressed Block Device Support   Shaun Savage"

Please check if I configured the configure.in and Makefile.am
correctly.  

BUG:
During the compile I turned disabled fat,ffs,minix.reiserfs  and I found
the in stage2/builtins.c line 458 has fat_mount even with FAT support
turned off.  I did a #ifdef FSYS_FAT around it.

UPDATE DOC:
Also in the documentation disk_read_hook needs to be set.  In the docs
it states debug_fs. 
Also the read_func needs to return a zero 0 if (len == 0)

TODO:
1>  Now I am going to work on adding dynamic values to kernel
command-line.  Multi boot OS have modules that can be loaded but linux
does not.  But I would like to pass information fron the GRUB to the
kernel.

2>  I also am going to work on making the menu/boot screen fancy
(consumer eye candy).  

Any ideas here would help.


Shaun Savage