[PATCH 1/5] search for fonts in /usr/share/fonts/uni

2012-07-10 Thread Jiri Slaby
From: Jiri Slaby jirisl...@gmail.com Location of the fonts in Suse is /usr/share/fonts/uni. We have to use this patch when packaging grub2. Instead, it would be great to have this upstream so others may leverage that. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby jirisl...@gmail.com --- configure.ac |2 +- 1

[PATCH 3/5] msdos-part: allow embedding in extended partition

2012-07-10 Thread Jiri Slaby
From: Michael Chang mch...@suse.com The same as in the previous patch, add a support for installing grub into an extended partition. Here, we do not ignore extended partitions anymore. Instead we call a hook that makes sure we have the partition when installing. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby

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

2012-07-10 Thread Jiri Slaby
From: Mark Hamzy ha...@us.ibm.com 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 jsl...@suse.cz --- 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 mch...@suse.com 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

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 li...@colorremedies.com 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

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.

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 boots

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