[PATCH 2/5] grub-install: add --skip-fs-probe

2012-07-10 Thread Jiri Slaby
From: Michael Chang To be able to install grub on an extended partition, user, if they are convinced it is a good idea, has to use --skip-fs-probe for grub-setup. For convenience, let us support --skip-fs-probe directly in grub-install and pass it to grub-setup internally. Otherwise with such a

[PATCH 4/5] Migrate PPC from Yaboot to Grub2

2012-07-10 Thread Jiri Slaby
From: Mark Hamzy Add configuration support for serial terminal consoles. This will set the maximum screen size so that text is not overwritten. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby --- Makefile.util.def |7 +++ util/grub.d/20_ppc_terminfo.in | 114 ++

[PATCH 5/5] add GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_RECOVERY for recovery mode

2012-07-10 Thread Jiri Slaby
From: Michael Chang We, in suse, do not use single user mode but with specific kernel command line options decided in YaST. These command line could be applied to grub2's recovery mode via the new setting GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_RECOVERY. The same holds for debian and the script is actually adapted f

Re: Secure Boot. Why don't you take the wind out of their sails?

2012-07-10 Thread richardvo...@gmail.com
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 12:04 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Jul 9, 2012, at 7:23 PM, richardvo...@gmail.com wrote: >> All >> systems ship with verification disabled, and all the major motherboard >> manufacturers have indicated that secure boot will always stay an >> opt-in mechanism. > > This i

Re: Secure Boot. Why don't you take the wind out of their sails?

2012-07-10 Thread Bruce Dubbs
richardvo...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe I'm missing something, but when I read this, it doesn't say the hardware must have Secure Boot enabled by default. Rather, it must be enabled by the OEM as part of the Windows preinstallation process, so that it's enabled when it reaches the end user. System

Re: Secure Boot. Why don't you take the wind out of their sails?

2012-07-10 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 11:29:21AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > For people who are not experts, trying Linux or another operating > system becomes much more intimidating. They have to go into the > BIOS and change something. Then, to go back to Windows, they have > to do it again. No windows boot

Build error due to missing vga_common.c

2012-07-10 Thread Anton Blanchard
Hi, It looks like we need to regenerate po/POTFILES.in. I see this when building a fresh checkout on powerpc: make[3]: Entering directory `/root/grub/po' make[3]: *** No rule to make target `.././grub-core/term/i386/vga_common.c', needed by `grub.pot-update'. Anton ___