GRUB Manual Apparent Typo

2020-01-17 Thread Patrick Higgins
GRUB Developers, There appears to be a typo in the GRUB manual's Table of Contents at https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub/html_node/index.html. List item 16.3.21 reads "linux", but this link actually goes to

[RESEND PATCH v4 1/2] Add grub_util_readlink()

2020-01-17 Thread Javier Martinez Canillas
From: Peter Jones Currently grub-editenv and related tools are not able to follow symbolic links when finding their config file. For example the grub-editenv create command will wrongly overwrite a symlink in /boot/grub2/grubenv with a new regular file, instead of creating a file in the path the

[RESEND PATCH v4 2/2] Make editenv chase symlinks including those across devices

2020-01-17 Thread Javier Martinez Canillas
From: Peter Jones The grub-editenv create command will wrongly overwrite /boot/grub2/grubenv with a regular file if grubenv is a symbolic link. But instead, it should create a new file in the path the symlink points to. This lets /boot/grub2/grubenv be a symlink to /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grubenv

[PATCH v4 2/2] Make editenv chase symlinks including those across devices

2020-01-17 Thread Javier Martinez Canillas
From: Peter Jones The grub-editenv create command will wrongly overwrite /boot/grub2/grubenv with a regular file if grubenv is a symbolic link. But instead, it should create a new file in the path the symlink points to. This lets /boot/grub2/grubenv be a symlink to /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grubenv

[PATCH v4 1/2] Add grub_util_readlink()

2020-01-17 Thread Javier Martinez Canillas
From: Peter Jones Currently grub-editenv and related tools are not able to follow symbolic links when finding their config file. For example the grub-editenv create command will wrongly overwrite a symlink in /boot/grub2/grubenv with a new regular file, instead of creating a file in the path the

Re: grub-mkrescue: The blkid LABELs of its ISO 9660, HFS+, FAT filesystems

2020-01-17 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > [ ] Change HFS+ LABEL automatically by adding "_HFSPLUS" to the upto 32 > > characters of Volume Id. Daniel Kiper wrote: > Where this automatic change should happen? grub-mkrescue or libisofs? In libisofs. The decisive code gesture is in Vladimir's contribution

Re: [PATCH] Fix FreeDOS command booting large files (near or above 64 KiB)

2020-01-17 Thread Daniel Kiper
Adding Vladimir... On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 04:04:21PM +0100, C. Masloch wrote: > While testing the 86-DOS lDebug [1] booting from GRUB2, newer versions of the > debugger would fail to load when booted using GRUB's freedos command. The > behaviour observed in a qemu i386 machine was that the

Re: grub-mkrescue: The blkid LABELs of its ISO 9660, HFS+, FAT filesystems

2020-01-17 Thread Daniel Kiper
Hi, CC-ing Vladimir... On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 07:24:45PM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > during tests about the changes in blkid which are still discussed in > https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/pull/913 > i noted that a grub-mkrescue ISO for x86 BIOS and EFI shows the same >

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [PATCH 0/2] Implement a grub loader for RISC-V LINUX

2020-01-17 Thread Leif Lindholm
On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 13:14:39 +, Atish Patra wrote: > > Thanks a lot for tackling this problem - it's been on the back > burner for way too long :). Unfortunately this patch set loads grub > via UEFI, but then does not execute Linux using the UEFI > protocol. While that's a nice hack for

Re: Contributing to GRUB

2020-01-17 Thread Daniel Kiper
On Thu, Jan 02, 2020 at 10:19:26PM +0100, Teach weaver wrote: > Hello, > > I am from Sweden and eager to contribute to GRUB. Please take a look at https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=grub and find the simplest bug for you to fix. Then post a patch here. Daniel

Re: ZFS grubenv write support

2020-01-17 Thread Daniel Kiper
Hi Paul, On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 04:03:34PM -0800, Paul Dagnelie wrote: > Hey all, > > I'm interested in trying to enable support for boot-time modification of > the grubenv file on ZFS and other non-standard filesystems that don't > necessarily work today. I have a proposed design, and I was

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Implement a grub loader for RISC-V LINUX

2020-01-17 Thread Atish Patra
On Fri, 2020-01-17 at 03:20 +, Chester Lin wrote: > Hi Alex, Atish and Anup, > > On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 02:27:55PM +0100, Alexander Graf wrote: > > On 16.01.20 14:14, Atish Patra wrote: > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > > > > > On Jan 16, 2020, at 10:06 PM, Alexander Graf > > > > wrote: > >