Make grub-setup backup the old boot sectors into a file
(bootsectors.bak) before overwriting it. The backup image starts from
the MBR to the end of core.img position (including embed regions).
This makes it possible for a user to later restore it.
A new option -o|--restore (with optional
Hello everyone,
I am happy to see the availability of grub 1.98 in debian lenny after the
up-gradation I did yesterday night. The /boot/grub folder now contains
unicode.pf2, unicode.ppf as well as GRUBtheme folder containing winter etc.
theme. Is there any doc to configure the themes, vga
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 09:29:57AM EST, J. Bakshi wrote:
Hello everyone,
I am happy to see the availability of grub 1.98 in debian lenny after
the up-gradation I did yesterday night. The /boot/grub folder now
contains unicode.pf2, unicode.ppf as well as GRUBtheme folder
containing winter
Am Donnerstag, den 07.01.2010, 10:13 -0500 schrieb Chris Jones:
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 09:29:57AM EST, J. Bakshi wrote:
Hello everyone,
I am happy to see the availability of grub 1.98 in debian lenny
after
the up-gradation I did yesterday night. The /boot/grub folder now
contains
On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:27:56 +0100
Felix Zielcke fziel...@z-51.de wrote:
Am Donnerstag, den 07.01.2010, 10:13 -0500 schrieb Chris Jones:
The only docs about it that exist currently are the ones on Colin's
site AFAIK:
http://grub.gibibit.com/
But they're outdated now, the theme format has
Robert Millan wrote:
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 03:54:49AM +0100, Grégoire Sutre wrote:
Hi,
I'm wondering why there is no check for device type (block/character) in
grub-setup.c whereas the function probe() in grub-probe.c exits with
error if the device is not of the expected type. Shouldn't
Hi,
I couldn't boot the EFI BIOS image from the qemu-tianocore-x64.tar.lzma
tarball. I used version 0.11.0 of QEMU. Any ideas?
Colin
On Thu, 2009-12-24 at 22:00 +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 09:30:31PM +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder'
Serbinenko wrote:
Colin Ian King
On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 08:35:38PM +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
wrote:
Robert Millan wrote:
+ .long 0
+ .long 1024
+ .long 768
+ .long 32
Maybe better to use 640x480 instead? Not everyone has a large display.
It's only a recommended
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 07:50:29AM -0800, Colin D Bennett wrote:
The ‘append_revisions_only’ option should probably be set for all
public branches to prevent accidental non-commit changes
I didn't mention this back then, but append_revisions_only is in effect
for most branches now. It's not
On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 07:11:11PM +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
wrote:
Hello. Currently authentication system works as following:
menuentry name --users a,b,c {
}
Means that only superusers and users a, b and c are permitted to
boot this menuentry. To allow only superusers
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 03:21:08PM +0800, Zhu Yi wrote:
On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 11:59 +0800, richardvo...@gmail.com wrote:
If we decide so, we go back to option 1 (my original
implementation).
Because the backup file format is not important any more as it is
totally transparent to the
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 02:26:14PM +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
wrote:
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
--040505020001050308040003
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Hello, all. Rescue mode doesn't
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 06:31:02PM +0100, Grégoire Sutre wrote:
Robert Millan wrote:
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 03:54:49AM +0100, Grégoire Sutre wrote:
Hi,
I'm wondering why there is no check for device type (block/character)
in grub-setup.c whereas the function probe() in grub-probe.c exits
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 12:08:28AM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
I've been working on grub.texi and I notice a reference to
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-faq.html. I will change that to
grub-2-faq.en.html before I submit it.
Actually, I'd rather ditch the old FAQ and replace it
Robert Millan wrote:
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 12:08:28AM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
I've been working on grub.texi and I notice a reference to
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-faq.html. I will change that to
grub-2-faq.en.html before I submit it.
Actually, I'd rather ditch the old FAQ
Robert Millan wrote:
Bootloader will use a mode it
chooses. Perhaps we should remove recommended mode fields from the spec
altogether or make them somehow optional
Is that important? I'm hesitant to do that untill we have better
understanding
on what lead to this decision.
On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 10:12:51PM +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
wrote:
Hello. Currently mbi contains a lot of pointers and substructures. It's
has various problems like:
-Unused fields occupy space if any subsequent fields is used.
-Difficult to relocate since it may be
On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 10:12:51PM +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
wrote:
--- include/multiboot.h 2010-01-02 17:50:06 +
+++ include/multiboot.h 2010-01-02 21:06:42 +
@@ -31,8 +31,11 @@
/* This should be in %eax. */
#define MULTIBOOT_BOOTLOADER_MAGIC
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 05:15:02PM +, Daire Byrne wrote:
Hi,
It looks like recent kernels (namely 2.6.31 and 2.6.32) can't find the
initrd when booting from grub (efi) on a macbook pro 5,4 giving the
error:
RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0.
The 2.6.30
On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 04:00:23PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
Just leave it with (/dev/foo).
You mean literally with the parentheses? I don't understand, since /dev/
names will be unintelligible to GRUB when running outside an operating
system.
Yes. This just means we'd have set
Robert Millan wrote:
On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 10:12:51PM +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder'
Serbinenko wrote:
Hello. Currently mbi contains a lot of pointers and substructures. It's
has various problems like:
-Unused fields occupy space if any subsequent fields is used.
-Difficult to
On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 07:07:29PM +0100, Grégoire Sutre wrote:
A similar problem is mentioned in the archives of the mailing list [1].
I tried to adapt the patch given in [1] to the current trunk, but with
no luck.
I suggest you test if GRUB Legacy's Multiboot loader supports this
On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 11:23:11PM +, Carles Pina i Estany wrote:
(any problem to use the gcc macros to know the filename/line number? I
remember something and I cannot find it now)
__FILE__ yields a significant code size increase. We have an outstanding
problem with this. See:
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 08:33:24AM -0800, Colin D Bennett wrote:
BTW, the theme document is also on the wiki at
http://grub.enbug.org/ThemeFormat.
I am about to build GRUB for testing again, from the experimental
branch, and I can migrate my example themes to the new format. It
looks
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 07:59:57PM +0530, J. Bakshi wrote:
Hello everyone,
I am happy to see the availability of grub 1.98
That's very unlikely. I don't recall having released 1.98 yet ;-)
--
Robert Millan
Be the change you want to see in the world -- Gandhi
Robert Millan wrote:
On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 04:00:23PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
Just leave it with (/dev/foo).
You mean literally with the parentheses? I don't understand, since /dev/
names will be unintelligible to GRUB when running outside an operating
system.
Yes. This just means we'd
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 04:18:37PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Robert Millan wrote:
On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 04:00:23PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
Just leave it with (/dev/foo).
You mean literally with the parentheses? I don't understand, since /dev/
names will be unintelligible to GRUB when
On Thu, 7 Jan 2010 22:47:38 +0100
Robert Millan r...@aybabtu.com wrote:
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 08:33:24AM -0800, Colin D Bennett wrote:
BTW, the theme document is also on the wiki at
http://grub.enbug.org/ThemeFormat.
I am about to build GRUB for testing again, from the experimental
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 02:38:24PM -0800, Colin D Bennett wrote:
When you say “existing fonts” do you mean there is a font other than
unifont?
Not that we currently provide.
--
Robert Millan
Be the change you want to see in the world -- Gandhi
Colin Watson wrote:
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 04:18:37PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Robert Millan wrote:
On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 04:00:23PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
Just leave it with (/dev/foo).
You mean literally with the parentheses? I don't understand, since /dev/
names will be
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