Possible Multiboot2 documentation error

Good afternoon, The possible error can be found in section 3.6.12 of https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/multiboot2/multiboot.html In the framebuffer tag of the Multiboot2 information structure, the reserved space listed between frambuffer_type and color_info is listed as "u8". However, in

[bug #57678] Add a possibility to transfer passphrase to OS when unlocking encrypted container

URL: Summary: Add a possibility to transfer passphrase to OS when unlocking encrypted container Project: GNU GRUB Submitted by: kadilov Submitted on: Пн. 27 янв. 2020 14:12:27

[bug #49200] Grub 2.02_beta3-r1 compile fails with clang 3.9

Follow-up Comment #3, bug #49200 (project grub): Ah sorry, forget to mention i'm using 64bit system. ___ Reply to this item at: ___ Message sent via/by

[bug #49200] Grub 2.02_beta3-r1 compile fails with clang 3.9

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #49200 (project grub): Well, as i said: I'm trying build Grub 2.02_beta3(https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/sys-boot/grub) with clang/LLVM 3.9 and it fails. Grub 2.02_beta2 builds fine with clang 3.9. Distro: Gentoo Linux Grub version: 2.02_beta3-r1 LLVM version:

[bug #49200] Grub 2.02_beta3-r1 compile fails with clang 3.9

URL: Summary: Grub 2.02_beta3-r1 compile fails with clang 3.9 Project: GNU GRUB Submitted by: spider_ch Submitted on: Tue 27 Sep 2016 03:26:53 PM GMT Category: Compilation

Re: [Bug-xorriso] Test Proposal for [bug #46716] Protective MBR partition is not marked as bootable

05.01.2016 00:42, Alexander E. Patrakov пишет: http://82.193.153.141/to-try/rich/minimal-mjg-p2.iso doesn't show up in the menu I am sorry. Today I have prepared a set of other test ISOs, built with newer versions of xorriso and the MITM wrapper, and got the results. However, one

Re: [Bug-xorriso] Test Proposal for [bug #46716] Protective MBR partition is not marked as bootable

e working EFI option http://82.193.153.141/to-try/rich/minimal-mjg-p2.iso doesn't show up in the menu http://82.193.153.141/to-try/rich/minimal-default.iso doesn't show up in the menu http://82.193.153.141/to-try/rich/minimal-plain.iso shows two working EFI options -- Alexander E. Patrakov _

Re: [Bug-xorriso] Test Proposal for [bug #46716] Protective MBR partition is not marked as bootable

gives 2 EFI options, both launch the installer. The amd64 is not recognized. -- Alexander E. Patrakov ___ Bug-grub mailing list Bug-grub@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub

Re: [Bug-xorriso] Test Proposal for [bug #46716] Protective MBR partition is not marked as bootable

- I think the script contains a copy-paste bug. Both lines 202 and 222 are: elif test x"$mode" = xmbr_only_copy while I think that line 222 should test for mbr_hfs_copy. -- Alexander E. Patrakov ___ Bug-grub mailing list Bug-grub@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub

Re: [Bug-xorriso] Test Proposal for [bug #46716] Protective MBR partition is not marked as bootable

[re-adding bug-grub to CC] 29.12.2015 23:39, Alexander E. Patrakov пишет: 29.12.2015 22:51, Thomas Schmitt пишет: Hi, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: 2B: prints "this is not a bootable disk" message i wrote: You see a string from the EFI partition 0xef in your old BIOS ? Yes! An

Re: [Bug-xorriso] Test Proposal for [bug #46716] Protective MBR partition is not marked as bootable

er, i fear. Now for alternative layouts: Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: 1. "vanilla": with the modified system_area.c, but with no CPPFLAGS 2. "no-boot-dummy": with -DLibisofs_mjg_boot_for_grub2 3. "rich&q

Re: Test Proposal for [bug #46716] Protective MBR partition is not marked as bootable

29.12.2015 18:26, Alexander E. Patrakov пишет: 28.12.2015 18:20, Thomas Schmitt пишет: Hi, i improved the test script by adding two more manipulation modes: - "mbr_only" produces an EFI compliant ISO without GPT, HFS+, APM. - "original" lets the xorriso arguments pass unch

Re: Test Proposal for [bug #46716] Protective MBR partition is not marked as bootable

that is embedded in the new boot code. This is especially interesting because there is no partition marked as bootable, so my prior understanding of the BIOS logic is wrong. All other images are bootable. -- Alexander E. Patrakov ___ Bug-grub mailing list Bug-grub@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub

Re: Test Proposal for [bug #46716] Protective MBR partition is not marked as bootable

layout created by grub-mkrescue? -- Alexander E. Patrakov ___ Bug-grub mailing list Bug-grub@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub

Re: [Bug-xorriso] Test Proposal for [bug #46716] Protective MBR partition is not marked as bootable

22.12.2015 20:05, Thomas Schmitt пишет: Hi, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: The following variants, obtained by changing only the MBR, also work: 1. Type-0 one-sector bootable partition at the very first sector: 01d0: 0100 0200 0100 Did you create

Re: [Bug-xorriso] Test Proposal for [bug #46716] Protective MBR partition is not marked as bootable

22.12.2015 08:51, Andrei Borzenkov пишет: 21.12.2015 22:28, Alexander E. Patrakov пишет: 22.12.2015 00:18, Thomas Schmitt пишет: Still no luck with the 2007 Mac. Are there any bootable media for it, which are not from Apple ? Yes: http://porteus-kiosk.org/public/3.6/Porteus-Kiosk-3.6.0

Re: Test Proposal for [bug #46716] Protective MBR partition is not marked as bootable

.#...#T. 01e0: 01f0: 55aa ..U. If you want me to test anything else specific, please ask. -- Alexander E. Patrakov ___ Bug-grub

Re: Test Proposal for [bug #46716] Protective MBR partition is not marked as bootable

21.12.2015 23:59, Andrei Borzenkov пишет: 21.12.2015 21:54, Alexander E. Patrakov пишет: 21.12.2015 23:48, Andrei Borzenkov пишет: 21.12.2015 19:36, Alexander E. Patrakov пишет: Well, I have asked another person to test this iso on a Mac for me. Result: on an iMac 2007, http://82.193.153.141

Re: Test Proposal for [bug #46716] Protective MBR partition is not marked as bootable

when another partition would be already bootable in the MBR. Move the bootable flag? Create two bootable partitions (which is invalid)? Ignore the switch? Warn? Leave undocumented? Well, I don't really care :) -- Alexander E. Patrakov ___ Bug-grub

Re: [Bug-xorriso] Test Proposal for [bug #46716] Protective MBR partition is not marked as bootable

86.iso ... --protective-msdos-label ... Oh ... without -hfsplus this keeps you from the plight of patching. Tested, this is similar to minimal-grub2-repacked-nohfsplus.iso (I.e. two working boot offers ?) Yes. -- Alexander E. Patrakov ___ Bug-

Re: [Bug-xorriso] Test Proposal for [bug #46716] Protective MBR partition is not marked as bootable

22.12.2015 00:10, Andrei Borzenkov пишет: 21.12.2015 19:36, Alexander E. Patrakov пишет: OK, the 2007 Mac does not recognize any of the isos below. Does it have 32 or 64 bit firmware? 64-bit. I think that the problem is inside efi.img created by grub-mkrescue. Namely, the size

Re: [Bug-xorriso] Test Proposal for [bug #46716] Protective MBR partition is not marked as bootable

032220 MBR partition : 2 0x00 0xef32220 5760 "Directly out of xorriso" is indeed an advantage. -- Alexander E. Patrakov ___ Bug-grub mailing list Bug-grub@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub

Re: Test Proposal for [bug #46716] Protective MBR partition is not marked as bootable

21.12.2015 23:48, Andrei Borzenkov пишет: 21.12.2015 19:36, Alexander E. Patrakov пишет: Well, I have asked another person to test this iso on a Mac for me. Result: on an iMac 2007, http://82.193.153.141/minimal-grub2-repacked-v2.iso just shows the blank screen. On Mac Pro 2012, it shows three

Re: Test Proposal for [bug #46716] Protective MBR partition is not marked as bootable

r variants of this on a Mac went away, so I cannot test them now. -- Alexander E. Patrakov ___ Bug-grub mailing list Bug-grub@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub

Re: [Bug-xorriso] Test Proposal for [bug #46716] Protective MBR partition is not marked as bootable

20.12.2015 19:57, Alexander E. Patrakov пишет: 20.12.2015 19:07, Thomas Schmitt пишет: Hi, xorriso wrote under my insufficient control: MBR partition : 1 0x80 0xee132803 Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: OK, this is the bug. You have a 0xee partition

Re: Test Proposal for [bug #46716] Protective MBR partition is not marked as bootable

21.12.2015 21:18, Alexander E. Patrakov пишет: 21.12.2015 20:29, Thomas Schmitt пишет: Hi, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: MBR partition table: N Status TypeStart Blocks MBR partition : 1 0x80 0x83032804 MBR partition : 2 0x00 0xef

Re: Test Proposal for [bug #46716] Protective MBR partition is not marked as bootable

21.12.2015 20:29, Thomas Schmitt пишет: Hi, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: MBR partition table: N Status TypeStart Blocks MBR partition : 1 0x80 0x83032804 MBR partition : 2 0x00 0xef32804 5760 In xorriso this would need

Re: [Bug-xorriso] Test Proposal for [bug #46716] Protective MBR partition is not marked as bootable

drom it looks like a normal GRUB2 prompt. Also with -hda and the modified minimal-hybrid.iso of Alexander. Something i made wrong when repacking. Did EFI find the 0xef partition with GRUB2, but GRUB2 could not find the ISO ? Any debugging proposals ? I'd try to repack the iso with the command th

Re: Test Proposal for [bug #46716] Protective MBR partition is not marked as bootable

on DG965SS. Note: if I set the second partition as active, not the first one, then it won't boot. So much for the stupid BIOS :( -- Alexander E. Patrakov ___ Bug-grub mailing list Bug-grub@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub

Re: [Bug-xorriso] Test Proposal for [bug #46716] Protective MBR partition is not marked as bootable

20.12.2015 17:24, Thomas Schmitt пишет: Do you want to try whether the wrapper partition of type 0x00 with boot flag works on all your machines ? I have already tried, it does work, provided that the bootable flag is on the first partition. Unfortunately, fdisk does not allow me to replicate

Re: [Bug-xorriso] Test Proposal for [bug #46716] Protective MBR partition is not marked as bootable

20.12.2015 19:07, Thomas Schmitt пишет: Hi, xorriso wrote under my insufficient control: MBR partition : 1 0x80 0xee132803 Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: OK, this is the bug. You have a 0xee partition, that indicates that GPT Yep. Looks like a xorriso bug

Re: [bug #46716] Protective MBR partition is not marked as bootable

and report mismatch. Have a nice day :) Thanks for a constructive message :) As for your other message, about reproduction of my iso, I am writing the reply right now. -- Alexander E. Patrakov ___ Bug-grub mailing list Bug-grub@gnu.org https

Re: [bug #46716] Protective MBR partition is not marked as bootable

exists in the MBR). In other words, without the ability to create a hybrid MBR (like gdisk does) or remove GPT, this flag would be useless. -- Alexander E. Patrakov ___ Bug-grub mailing list Bug-grub@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug

Re: [bug #46716] Protective MBR partition is not marked as bootable

19.12.2015 21:28, Alexander E. Patrakov пишет: 19.12.2015 20:23, Thomas Schmitt пишет: For the investigation i could need: - An ISO produced by grub-mkrescue as used by Alexander. Lean would be nice. Please post download URL. Newest xorriso releases can deduce the used options from

Re: [bug #46716] Protective MBR partition is not marked as bootable

19.12.2015 20:23, Thomas Schmitt пишет: For the investigation i could need: - An ISO produced by grub-mkrescue as used by Alexander. Lean would be nice. Please post download URL. Newest xorriso releases can deduce the used options from the ISO and replay them. Please also tell your

[bug #46716] Protective MBR partition is not marked as bootable

ooting Severity: Major Priority: 5 - Normal Item Group: None Status: None Privacy: Public Assigned to: None Originator Name: Alexander E. Patrakov Originator Email: patra...@gmail.com Open/Closed

[bug #46716] Protective MBR partition is not marked as bootable

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #46716 (project grub): Well, changing this byte also makes the iso unbootable from flash drive in OVMF (i.e. in QEMU in UEFI mode). ___ Reply to this item at:

[bug #46716] Protective MBR partition is not marked as bootable

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #46716 (project grub): OK, Tiano Core validates the protective partition as follows: // // Verify that the Protective MBR is valid // for (Index = 0; Index < MAX_MBR_PARTITIONS; Index++) { if (ProtectiveMbr->Partition[Index].BootIndicator == 0x00 &&

Re: [bug #46716] Protective MBR partition is not marked as bootable

[resending after the rejection, now I am subscribed to both lists] 19.12.2015 17:49, Andrei Borzenkov пишет: 19.12.2015 14:37, Alexander E. Patrakov пишет: Some old BIOSes (including the one in Intel DG965SS desktop board) refuse to treat a USB drive as bootable if it has no bootable MBR

[bug #46716] Protective MBR partition is not marked as bootable

Follow-up Comment #4, bug #46716 (project grub): As requested, further discussion is in the mailing lists. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grub/2015-12/msg00029.html ___ Reply to this item at:

[bug #46164] UFS sparse file memset

e code. Alexander Bluhm --- a/contrib/grub2/grub-core/fs/ufs.c +++ b/contrib/grub2/grub-core/fs/ufs.c @@ -394,7 +394,7 @@ grub_ufs_read_file (struct grub_ufs_data *data, return -1; } else - grub_memset (buf, UFS_BLKSZ (sblock) - skipfirst, 0); + grub_memset (buf, 0, bl

[bug #44026] legacy_configfile fail to boot system with xen pvgrub

Follow-up Comment #3, bug #44026 (project grub): Yep, I can confirm, patch fix this problem. Thank you! ___ Reply to this item at: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?44026 ___ Message sent

[bug #44026] legacy_configfile fail to boot system with xen pvgrub

URL: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?44026 Summary: legacy_configfile fail to boot system with xen pvgrub Project: GNU GRUB Submitted by: viliar Submitted on: Fri 16 Jan 2015 05:50:04 PM GMT Category: Booting

[bug #44026] legacy_configfile fail to boot system with xen pvgrub

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #44026 (project grub): Update: Sorry for misspelling. I mean menu.lst has been loaded correctly, but system fail to boot with it. ___ Reply to this item at: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?44026

[bug #33880] grub-1.99 threats symlinks as absolute on jfs

URL: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?33880 Summary: grub-1.99 threats symlinks as absolute on jfs Project: GNU GRUB Submitted by: zubkov Submitted on: Чтв 28 Июл 2011 17:06:45 Category: None Severity: Major

[bug #32676] Linker error in 'grub-core/kern/i386/pc/startup.S' on a x86_64 system

Follow-up Comment #7, bug #32676 (project grub): Just tested the patch. It is NOT working. It fixes the compilation issue, but after a grub-install --no-floppy /dev/sda my system just goes on to the message Grub Loading... and then reboots. So I'm caught in a reboot loop, only installing the 1.98

[bug #32676] Linker error in 'grub-core/kern/i386/pc/startup.S' on a x86_64 system

Follow-up Comment #9, bug #32676 (project grub): Now It works. Thank you Vladimir, you were a great help. And thanks for the short descriptions of the build process. Very interesting. Well, my problem was that my system didn't boot when I applied my offset fix (added 0x8) AND changed the

[bug #32676] Linker error in 'grub-core/kern/i386/pc/startup.S' on a x86_64 system

URL: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?32676 Summary: Linker error in 'grub-core/kern/i386/pc/startup.S' on a x86_64 system Project: GNU GRUB Submitted by: diewi Submitted on: Fr 04 Mär 2011 12:41:25 GMT Category: Compilation

[bug #32676] Linker error in 'grub-core/kern/i386/pc/startup.S' on a x86_64 system

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #32676 (project grub): Thanks for your reply. Sorry, I forgot to mention that I negated the UseFlag custom-cflags for the grub compilation. This way the option Os is used. I just set the option Os globally in my /etc/make.conf, cleaned my source directory and compiled

[bug #32313] grub-probe reporting wrong data for md0

URL: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?32313 Summary: grub-probe reporting wrong data for md0 Project: GNU GRUB Submitted by: alexhofbauer Submitted on: Di 01 Feb 2011 10:21:14 GMT Category: Installation

Fw: Install failed: /usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: unknown filesystem.

Hi there. I got an error when try to install grub2. Here is bugreport, I've submitted to Debian BTS some days ago: Today I've tested 1.99~rc1 and this problem still exists there. I think you may be interested too. Дата: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 18:55:39 +0300 От: Alexander Gerasiov g...@debian.org Кому

[bug #32170] /usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: unknown filesystem. When /boot on RAID1

URL: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?32170 Summary: /usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: unknown filesystem. When /boot on RAID1 Project: GNU GRUB Submitted by: gerasiov Submitted on: Tue 18 Jan 2011 01:49:02 PM GMT Category: Disk

grub-probe reporting wrong data for md0

Hi! I'm using a software raid (/dev/md/0) which is probed incorrectly by grub-probe (calls executed by grub-install). grub-pc is 1.98+20100804-13 from Debian/Squeeze. grub-probe --device /dev/md0p1 --target=fs_uuid Returns: 2257751b-c442-47a1-a58c-5a450886ef99 Correct:

[bug #22759] hp/compaq smart array raid device naming

URL: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?22759 Summary: hp/compaq smart array raid device naming Project: GNU GRUB Submitted by: zubkov Submitted on: Пятница 28.03.2008 at 10:01 Category: None Severity: Major

[bug #22750] broken module init

Follow-up Comment #3, bug #22750 (project grub): I was wrong. It is not the grub2 fault. It is broken Gentoo's ebuild. They forget to disable stripping! Thank You for pointing me the right direction. Bug can be closed. ___ Reply to this

Grub 1.95 configure fails on openSuSE 10.2

Hello, I just compiled Grub 1.95 on openSuSE 10.2 and the following came to my attention. The ./configure failed that the ncurses devel files where not installed. You may include a check for ncurses.h in the configuration. Hope this is useful info even if I'am not sure if I should support GNU any

Re: small question about using PXEgrub and splashimage

i wanna add some fun, and use a splashimage for the boot menu of pxegrub. It is possible, since I'm using it quite some time in different versions with my home rolled splash screens, but it's a bit complicated, since it involves some patches and related packages. I'm doing this with SuSE, and

Why does Grub need NIC-specific network drivers?

Hello! I would like to use Grub to boot my PCs via PXE. Every NIC that has a PXE Rom also has an UNDI driver, so I do not understand why Grub needs NIC-specific drivers. Could someone please explain me, why this is the case. PXELinux is able to boot via PXE and does not need NIC-specific

Can GRUB load an etherboot rom?

Hello! I load Grub via nbgrub (the Grub etherboot image). Is Grub able to download and boot an etherboot rom image (.rom from rom-o-matic.org) via TFTP? Cheers Alex ___ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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Re: The BSDs

Thus spake Dan Kegel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Let's say somebody wants to use Grub to boot all their operating systems. To achieve this, it helps if the operating systems support the multiboot spec. You can use the chainloader for *BSD and still boot all your operating systems. Adding

Re: The BSDs

Thus spake Robert Millan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Maybe. Asking them never hurts. I wouldn't spend my time adding multiboot support to other bootloaders myself, though. As using the FreeBSD loader is just a very fine option, I actually don't see a requirement for this anyways. Alex

FreeBSD loader options patch

Please see attached patch which adds support for a few options that the FreeBSD-CURRENT loader is able to understand. Alex diff -ru grub-cvs/stage2/freebsd.h grub-0.92/stage2/freebsd.h --- grub-cvs/stage2/freebsd.h Mon Nov 12 07:57:29 2001 +++ grub-0.92/stage2/freebsd.h Fri Nov 22 13:00:25

Re: FreeBSD loader options patch

Thus spake Yoshinori K. Okuji ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Please see attached patch which adds support for a few options that the FreeBSD-CURRENT loader is able to understand. You define RB_POWEROFF but don't use it at all. Also, I took a look at sys/reboot.h and boot/i386/libi386/bootinfo.c in

Reinstalling GRUB

To Whom It May Concern: I recently installed Red Hat Linux 7.3 as an upgrade to Red Hat Linux 7.0 and because of familiarity with the problems LILO had with Windows NT (particularly with Windows-2000 Pro) and no experience with GRUB put the GRUB boot loader over on /dev/hdb1 [ (hd1, 0) in GRUB

RE: GRUB overwritten by Win98

? Should I run grub-install, or should I do it manually or is it no difference? Thanks, Alex -Original Message- From: Susumu Takuwa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2002 7:12 PM To: Alexander Subject: Re: GRUB overwritten by Win98 On Sat, 04 May 2002 13:49:31 -0700

adding a password to grub login

Title: adding a password to grub login Hi, I have decided to try grub as my boot loader on my dual boot winxp and redhat7.2 machine. I decided at install not to use a grub password. I am now wondering how I would add password protection to the grub login? Willis Avaya Inc.

Re: [PATCH] VBE support

. Regards, Alex On Tuesday 13 November 2001 17:45, you wrote: At Tue, 13 Nov 2001 12:37:29 +0100, Alexander Thiel wrote: as the latest version of GRUB did not support VBE graphics as decribed in the multiboot specification, but I wanted it for my own toy kernel, I have added

Re: linux-2.4.0 breaks grub install into partition

On Sat, 8 Jul 2000, Khimenko Victor wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED] Daniel Stone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Torsten, I indeed stumbled into the same problem, and it seems to be GRUB's fault. No. It's NOT GRUB's fault. 0.5.93.1 was working *flawlessly* for me, and then 0.5.94 stuffed

LBA support broken in CVS

Hey, You probably already know but LBA support in CVS seems to be broken (at least on my machine it is). I've think I've tracked down the problem to the biosdisk_int13_extensions function but haven't been able to totally isolate it. The very first call to biosdisk_int13_extensions works