On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 09:18:41PM +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > On Wednesday 16 May 2007 08:25, Robert Millan wrote: > > On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 10:16:11PM +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > > > On Friday 11 May 2007 18:03, Robert Millan wrote: > > > > Please have a look at this patch that adds grub-install for EFI and > > > > tell me what you think. I have some doubts/comments myself, and I'll > > > > reply to my own message to use the patch context. > > > > > > In my opinion, grub-install is not very useful without grub-setup. > > > > It saves a pair of things to the user (figuring out which modules are > > needed, and what to do with the resulting grub.efi image). From Debian > > POV, it's very important so that grub installs can be automated from > > debian-installer (without duplicating code, that is). > > Providing a rudimentary tool rather harms the user.
What do you mean? It's almost the same that the powerpc version does. > > > As I > > > haven't reverse-engineered "bless" yet, I don't know how to implement it. > > > I guess it just modifies some bytes in a superblock or somewhere, though. > > > > What is bless needed for? In my environment (Debian GNU/Linux on a qemu > > sandbox with EFI firmware), it was not necessary to get grub.efi booting > > (although later it had issues accessing filesystems other than the EFI > > partition, but I suppose this might be a qemu/firmware bug). > > http://www.hmug.org/man/8/bless.php I see.. but user still can boot grub.efi manualy via EFI shell, right? -- Robert Millan My spam trap is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: this address is only intended for spam harvesters. Writing to it will get you added to my black list. _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
