[PATCH v2 2/3] grub-mkrescue: Preserve a copy of the EFI bootloaders on the ISO9660 file system

2022-11-25 Thread Pete Batard via Grub-devel
To enable file system transposition support for UEFI, we also must ensure that there exists a copy of the EFI bootloaders, that are currently embedded in the efi.img for xorriso, at their expected UEFI location on the ISO9660 file system. This is accomplished by removing the use of a temporary dir

[PATCH v2 1/3] grub-mkrescue: Add support for FAT and NTFS on EFI boot

2022-11-25 Thread Pete Batard via Grub-devel
In order to add file system transposition support for UEFI, i.e. the ability to copy the content of an ISO9660 grub-mkrescue ISO image onto user-formatted media, and have that boot on UEFI systems, the first thing we need to do is add support for the file systems that are natively handled by UEFI.

[PATCH v2 3/3] grub-mkrescue: Search by file UUID file rather than partition UUID for EFI boot

2022-11-25 Thread Pete Batard via Grub-devel
The final piece needed to add UEFI file system transposition support is to ensure the boot media can be located regardless of how the boot partition was instantiated. Especially, we do not want to be reliant on brittle partition UUIDs, as these only work if a boot media is duplicated at the block l

[PATCH v2 0/3] Add support for EFI file system transposition

2022-11-25 Thread Pete Batard via Grub-devel
Changes from v1: - Rebased against latest GRUB - Validated patches against coding guidelines - Clarified comments Note: If you are interested in testing this series, I have jolted down some guidelines at: https://gist.github.com/pbatard/0deddbd71eefc35a3ed0b08e12a9e7e3 --

Re: [programmer11...@programist.ru: Bug#1021846: grub-install is broken since 2.06-3: error: unknown filesystem]

2022-11-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hi Sudhakar! On Fri, Nov 25, 2022 at 10:52:39AM +0530, sudhakar wrote: >Hi Steve, > >It seems invalid Commit id which you reported. It should be >4bd9877f62166b7e369773ab92fe24a39f6515f8 >did you applied below patch and tested? Could you please confirm that. > >fs/f2fs: Do not read past the end of

Re: Grub saved my Laptop, and made it usable. so i wanted to say thanks to everybody that worked on it.

2022-11-25 Thread Project Development
On Mon, Nov 7, 2022 at 9:50 AM James Wabi wrote: > > Thanks vladimir, sadly it did not work. What i did was to include the memmap > line like this on boot/grub/grub.cfg > > > # This Menu entry brought to you courtesy of > https://www.pendrivelinux.com/install-grub2-on-usb-from-ubuntu-linux/ > se