Bug#698914: Fixing #698914 for wheezy (grub booting Windows 8 via UEFI)

2013-05-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 03:40:53PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > He pointed me at an existing set of patches from the folks at > openSUSE, which I've adapted very slightly and tested out: > > * Using an existing installation > * Using a locally-built CD to test the os-prober udeb > > and all w

Bug#698914: Fixing #698914 for wheezy (grub booting Windows 8 via UEFI)

2013-04-28 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sun, 2013-04-28 at 21:44 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On Sun, 2013-04-28 at 22:36 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > While I have no ways of testing those things, the patches look good to > > me, please unblock/unblock-udeb/urgent grub2 & os-prober. > > All done. As mentioned on IRC, grub2 h

Bug#698914: Fixing #698914 for wheezy (grub booting Windows 8 via UEFI)

2013-04-28 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sun, 2013-04-28 at 22:36 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > While I have no ways of testing those things, the patches look good to > me, please unblock/unblock-udeb/urgent grub2 & os-prober. All done. Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a s

Bug#698914: Fixing #698914 for wheezy (grub booting Windows 8 via UEFI)

2013-04-28 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Adam D. Barratt (28/04/2013): > What's the status there? Being another day nearer the published date > doesn't make me any /less/ nervous, certainly... As Steve told you on IRC, things got uploaded. While I have no ways of testing those things, the patches look good to me, please unblock/unblock

Bug#698914: Fixing #698914 for wheezy (grub booting Windows 8 via UEFI)

2013-04-28 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sat, 2013-04-27 at 15:01 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On Sat, 2013-04-27 at 15:37 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > Steve McIntyre (25/04/2013): > > > I opened #698914 a while back, concerned about the lack of support > > > in grub and os-prober for detecting Windows 8 on UEFI systems so > [

Bug#698914: Fixing #698914 for wheezy (grub booting Windows 8 via UEFI)

2013-04-27 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sat, 2013-04-27 at 15:37 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Steve McIntyre (25/04/2013): > > I opened #698914 a while back, concerned about the lack of support > > in grub and os-prober for detecting Windows 8 on UEFI systems so [...] > We'd need a d-i wheezy rc3. Not sure there's room/time for th

Bug#698914: Fixing #698914 for wheezy (grub booting Windows 8 via UEFI)

2013-04-27 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Steve McIntyre (25/04/2013): > I opened #698914 a while back, concerned about the lack of support > in grub and os-prober for detecting Windows 8 on UEFI systems so > that working boot entries would be added automatically at > installation time. At the time, I did not consider the issue > RC. Howe

Bug#698914: Fixing #698914 for wheezy (grub booting Windows 8 via UEFI)

2013-04-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 12:31:41AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: >On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 12:11:10AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >[...] >> >This directory only exists if efivars is loaded. I assume that SUSE >> >configures it as built-in, and our kernel package has a patch to >> >trigger autoloadin

Bug#698914: Fixing #698914 for wheezy (grub booting Windows 8 via UEFI)

2013-04-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 12:11:10AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: [...] > >This directory only exists if efivars is loaded. I assume that SUSE > >configures it as built-in, and our kernel package has a patch to > >trigger autoloading of efivars on systems with EFI. But for the > >benefit of people

Bug#698914: Fixing #698914 for wheezy (grub booting Windows 8 via UEFI)

2013-04-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
severity 698914 serious thanks On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 08:06:51PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: >On Thu, 2013-04-25 at 15:40 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: ... >> and all works fine, fixing the bug nicely. I would like to upload (and >> get unblocks for) new grub2 and os-prober packages - see debdif

Bug#698914: Fixing #698914 for wheezy (grub booting Windows 8 via UEFI)

2013-04-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2013-04-25 at 15:40 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Hi folks, > > I opened #698914 a while back, concerned about the lack of support in > grub and os-prober for detecting Windows 8 on UEFI systems so that > working boot entries would be added automatically at installation > time. At the tim

Bug#698914: Fixing #698914 for wheezy (grub booting Windows 8 via UEFI)

2013-04-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hi folks, I opened #698914 a while back, concerned about the lack of support in grub and os-prober for detecting Windows 8 on UEFI systems so that working boot entries would be added automatically at installation time. At the time, I did not consider the issue RC. However, discussion yesterday wit