On 06/19/2010 05:42 PM, KESHAV P.R. wrote: > The bzr rev 2372 which unified grub-mkimage command has lead to a > generated grub.efi not being portable. I have to use the following > command to generate a working grub2.efi > > On the contrary. Now we use the same defaults on all platforms which simplifies maintaining and packaging. To get old behaviour add -p "" to grub-mkimage line > ./grub-mkimage -d . -o <EFI SYSTEM PARTITION>/efi/grub2/grub2.efi -O > x86_64-efi -p /efi/grub2 <My_Long_List_of_modules> > > No efi based boot-loader I know of, stores hard-coded paths for its > supporting files. Without the "-p /efi/grub2" parameter , the > generated grub2.efi fails to load the /efi/grub2/grub.cfg menu and if > the normal module is not included in the efi app, launches into the > rescue console. Before the grub-mkimage change, no prefix parameter > was needed while generating grub2.efi . The old grub2.efi file > automatically determined the path from which it was launched and > loaded the grub.cfg file successfully. Thus the old grub2.efi was > portable as any path can be used to store the modules, grub2.efi, > grub.cfg files and even if the folder was renamed, it would still > work. The new grub2.efi needs a hard-coded prefix path to work > properly. Please revert back this requirement alone (mainly for UEFI). > > I have one more feature request :- > > Is it possible to specify which config file should be read by grub > instead of a hard-coded grub.cfg ? For example :- If I have a <EFI > SYSTEM PARTITION>/efi/grub2/ folder with grub1.efi grub2.efi grub3.efi > (each having different set of modules with normal and other basic > modules included) etc., and I have grub.cfg grub5.cfg grub4.cfg, I > want grub1.efi to use grub.cfg, grub2.efi to use grub5.cfg and > grub3.efi to use grub4.cfg (the config file name can be user choice). > One efi app should not load any other cfg file even if many cfg files > are present in the prefix folder. > > I noticed an option of embedding a config file in grub-mkimage . > Instead of embedding, I just want the generated image to load a > different config file with a filename of my choice which can be > specified as a parameter in grub-mkimage. Is this possible? This can > also be an option for core.img of grub2 BIOS, but this option is more > useful for UEFI where multiple grub efi apps can be created. > > Finally, just a matter of interest, what non-Apple UEFI (2.x spec, not > 1.1 spec) systems do you guys use primarily for developing grub2 UEFI? > Any Intel Motherboard or some UEFI based laptop (HP Elitebook or Sony > Vaio) or USB based Tianocore EDK or EDK2 DUET (the firmware I use)? > > Regards. > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > >
-- Regards Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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