Re: [PATCH 2/2] autogen.sh: Detect python

2021-08-18 Thread Bruce Dubbs
On 8/18/21 1:19 AM, Petr Vorel wrote: On Mon, Aug 09, 2021 at 01:52:29PM +0200, Daniel Kiper wrote: On Fri, Aug 06, 2021 at 08:45:08AM +0200, Petr Vorel wrote: It help to avoid error on distros which has only python3 binary: ./autogen.sh: line 20: python: command not found Using bash builtin

Re: GRUB 2.06

2021-04-20 Thread Bruce Dubbs
On 4/20/21 12:50 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 1:34 PM Didier Spaier wrote: So, it's hard to understand for many end users that: 1. The issue appeared after gcc-10 began to be used, well after the release of grub 2.04. 2. It has been fixed long ago. 3. But for the fix to be e

Re: GRUB 2.06~rc1 released

2021-03-13 Thread Bruce Dubbs
On 3/12/21 5:48 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: On 3/12/21 5:25 PM, Glenn Washburn wrote: Hi Bruce, On Fri, 12 Mar 2021 15:30:01 -0600 Bruce Dubbs wrote: On 3/12/21 1:57 PM, Daniel Kiper wrote: [snip] For LFS, we do a very simple build in a sparse environment.  Here are a few observations. We

Re: GRUB 2.06~rc1 released

2021-03-12 Thread Bruce Dubbs
On 3/12/21 5:25 PM, Glenn Washburn wrote: Hi Bruce, On Fri, 12 Mar 2021 15:30:01 -0600 Bruce Dubbs wrote: On 3/12/21 1:57 PM, Daniel Kiper wrote: Hi all, The GRUB maintainers are proud to announce the GRUB 2.06~rc1 that has been just released. Congratulations. For LFS, we do a very

Re: GRUB 2.06~rc1 released

2021-03-12 Thread Bruce Dubbs
On 3/12/21 1:57 PM, Daniel Kiper wrote: Hi all, The GRUB maintainers are proud to announce the GRUB 2.06~rc1 that has been just released. Congratulations. For LFS, we do a very simple build in a sparse environment. Here are a few observations. We use: ./configure --prefix=/usr \

Re: [SECURITY PATCH 000/117] Multiple GRUB2 vulnerabilities - 2021/03/02 round

2021-03-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
On 3/2/21 1:37 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hi Daniel! On 3/2/21 7:00 PM, Daniel Kiper wrote: The BootHole vulnerability [1][2] announced last year encouraged many people to take a closer look at the security of boot process in general and the GRUB bootloader in particular. Due to that,

GRUB release schedule?

2020-10-25 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Is there a release schedule for the next stable version of GRUB? It would help for planning purposes. -- Bruce LFS ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: [PATCH v2 08/12] kern: Make grub_error() more verbose

2020-03-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs
On 3/6/20 11:03 AM, David Michael wrote: On Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 9:02 AM Didier Spaier wrote: Le 06/03/2020 à 13:43, Daniel Kiper a écrit : If we go that way then we have to care about them by the end of the universe. And this means more and more issues like [1]. If somebody wants to use new GR

Re: gcc9.1 and f2fs

2019-05-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs
On 5/17/19 2:13 AM, Michael Chang wrote: Hello John, Except for lacking commit message and SOB, the fix is LGTM. [snip] --- grub-core/fs/f2fs.c | 10 ++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/grub-core/fs/f2fs.c b/grub-core/fs/f2fs.c index 1cad2615f..0dd09bc23 100644 --- a

Re: gcc9.1 and f2fs

2019-05-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs
On 5/6/19 12:15 PM, Neil MacLeod wrote: With the latest grub HEAD (620857c4dccb8f0548cdb855f6b2f46ebea3919e) I'm getting the following compilation error with gcc-9.1: /home/ubuntu/projects/LibreELEC.tv/build.LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-9.1-devel/toolchain/bin/x86_64-libreelec-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_C

Re: GRUB 2.04 RC01 released

2019-04-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs
ness: 'int' and 'unsigned int' [-Wsign-compare] for (i = 0; i < keylen; i++) I have one question. When do you expect to release the stable grub-2.04 version of GRUB? -- Bruce Dubbs linuxfromscratch.org ___ Grub-devel

GRUB version numbering.

2019-03-26 Thread Bruce Dubbs
t two 'stable' releases a week. That is hardly 'stable'. For a package like GRUB, a release every six months on a schedule would be ideal, but that may not be best for this package. In any case, I appreciate and consideration you may give to this proposal. -- Bruce Dubbs

bash completions in GRUB

2019-01-10 Thread Bruce Dubbs
arget date? The last release was April 2017. -- Bruce Dubbs linuxfromscratch.org ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: grub2-common: grub.cfg gains wrong root settings for multi-OS system

2017-04-23 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Andrei Borzenkov wrote: 23.04.2017 08:43, Ralph Ronnquist пишет: For all installs, I made it mount /dev/sda1 at /boot but only the first install formatted it. Shared /boot never worked reliably. With or without grub. Sorry. It works perfectly if you don't use grub-mkconfig. For those using

Grub 2.02

2017-02-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Is there an estimated time frame for the release of the stable 2.02 version of grub? The Linux From Scratch project is planning a new release around March 1st and would really like to update to a grub stable release. -- Bruce Dubbs linuxfromscratch.org

Re: Bugs and tasks for 2.02[~rc1]

2016-04-12 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: Hello, all. I went through the list of bugs and created a shortlist of bugs that need to be looked at for 2.02. I have marked them with plan_release_id set to 2.02. [snip] I would like to come up with a complete list of 2.02 blockers in one week time, so t

Re: Fwd: RE: GRUB release schedule?

2016-02-22 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Any progress on this? Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: -- Message transféré -- De : "Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko" Date : 4 janv. 2016 10:40 PM Objet : RE: GRUB release schedule? À : "Elliott, Robert (Persistent Memory)" Cc : I'm currently running tests in order to make

Re: GRUB release schedule?

2015-08-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
pped in the tarball hold up a release. Perfect is the enemy of good enough. -- Bruce Dubbs linuxfromscratch.org ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: GRUB release schedule?

2015-07-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
;release progression were decided upon and followed. I agree. -- Bruce Dubbs linuxfromscratch.org ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: initrd loading, max size, addr_min, and page_align

2015-02-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Andrei Borzenkov wrote: В Sun, 08 Feb 2015 11:14:28 -0600 Bruce Dubbs пишет: Andrei Borzenkov wrote: В Thu, 5 Feb 2015 21:55:54 + Eric Ewanco пишет: Background: I need to use a really large initrd for x86_64 (Linux 3.4.47), and I'm near the limit, so I'm studying grub-c

Re: initrd loading, max size, addr_min, and page_align

2015-02-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Andrei Borzenkov wrote: В Thu, 5 Feb 2015 21:55:54 + Eric Ewanco пишет: Background: I need to use a really large initrd for x86_64 (Linux 3.4.47), and I'm near the limit, so I'm studying grub-core/loader/i386/linux.c to find out the whys and wherefores of the GRUB 2.00 size limit. GRUB

grub-2.02-beta

2014-09-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I believe the grub-2.02-beta was announced last December. Are there any plans to do a "stable" release any time soon? -- Bruce Dubbs linuxfromscratch.org ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailma

What is the status of grub-2.02

2014-05-15 Thread Bruce Dubbs
grub-2.02~beta2 was released in December. What are the current plans for another beta or a stable release? -- Bruce ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: grub-2.02~beta1 happened

2013-12-18 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: Hello, all. I've just uploaded 2.02~beta1. This also means that we're now in freeze. I'm willing to consider exceptions on case-by-case basis but it would be exceptions. The major points to do before release: - ARM64 loader. - Yeeloong 3A support needs

Re: grub-mkimage and other utils documentation

2013-11-26 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Andrey Borzenkov wrote: I started to clean --pubkey in docs, hit grub-mkimage reference, hit "grub-install is just a shell script" ... it really needs cleanup. Is grub-install terse description intentional? If not, I'm going to actually document all utilities and all options not defined as hidden

Re: GRUB Manual Broken Link

2013-11-15 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Andrey Borzenkov wrote: В Fri, 15 Nov 2013 10:04:15 -0600 Bruce Dubbs пишет: I was notified by the GNU webmaster that he is getting complaints about the manual at http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html having a broken link: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/multiboot.html

Re: GRUB Manual Broken Link

2013-11-15 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Andrey Borzenkov wrote: В Fri, 15 Nov 2013 10:04:15 -0600 Bruce Dubbs пишет: I was notified by the GNU webmaster that he is getting complaints about the manual at http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html having a broken link: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/multiboot.html

GRUB Manual Broken Link

2013-11-15 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I was notified by the GNU webmaster that he is getting complaints about the manual at http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html having a broken link: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/multiboot.html#Top It should be http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/multiboot/multiboot.htm

Re: [PATCH] update grub web page with reference to GIT instead of bzr.

2013-10-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: On 27.10.2013 17:23, Bruce Dubbs wrote: If you do have commit privs, please do not update the html directly. I do not know until I try :) Feel free to commit. I'll do that, but would like confirmation. Vladimir, does this look

Re: [PATCH] update grub web page with reference to GIT instead of bzr.

2013-10-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Andrey Borzenkov wrote: В Sun, 27 Oct 2013 11:02:09 -0500 Bruce Dubbs пишет: Andrey Borzenkov wrote: В Sun, 27 Oct 2013 19:24:28 +0400 Andrey Borzenkov пишет: That's where website lags behind. GRUB switched to GIT a while ago. See https://savannah.gnu.org/git/?group=grub As fo

Re: [PATCH] update grub web page with reference to GIT instead of bzr.

2013-10-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Andrey Borzenkov wrote: В Sun, 27 Oct 2013 19:24:28 +0400 Andrey Borzenkov пишет: That's where website lags behind. GRUB switched to GIT a while ago. See https://savannah.gnu.org/git/?group=grub As for web site - I do not know; Vladimir, who can edit this? Not sure if I can commit, but -

Re: BUGS: btrfs multi-device support fixes

2013-10-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Andrey Borzenkov wrote: В Sun, 27 Oct 2013 10:47:45 -0400 Gene Czarcinski пишет: On 10/27/2013 02:54 AM, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: В Sat, 26 Oct 2013 16:16:19 -0400 Gene Czarcinski пишет: On 10/26/2013 12:27 PM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: Rejected, similar patches is in tr

Re: [RFC] Moving from Bazaar (bzr) to git

2013-06-22 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Paul Menzel wrote: Dear GRUB folks, this is *not* the start of a flame war about what VCS is the best. Hopefully everyone will agree, that git is the most popular one in the FOSS world (Linux, freedesktop.org, GNOME, KDE, …) and a lot of people are now familiar with the basic git commands. So

Re: [RFC] Support for UEFI ESP in os-prober

2013-06-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: On 05.06.2013 19:58, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: В Wed, 05 Jun 2013 12:21:54 -0500 Bruce Dubbs пишет: Mads Kiilerich wrote: On 05/31/2013 07:03 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: I mu

Re: [RFC] Support for UEFI ESP in os-prober

2013-06-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Mads Kiilerich wrote: On 05/31/2013 07:03 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: I must say I'm generally disappointed with os-prober and have ideas to move away from it. I'll start another topic for it. I agree. I would prefer adding a

Re: Grub2 designer's guide.

2013-06-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Seth Goldberg wrote: On Jun 4, 2013, at 1:59 AM, Vladimir Testov wrote: I've completed the article I was working on. http://wiki.rosalab.ru/en/index.php/Grub2_theme_/_designer%27s_guide Please, take a look. Looks great! Thanks so much for putting this together. This should be include

Re: [RFC] Support for UEFI ESP in os-prober

2013-05-31 Thread Bruce Dubbs
de /boot/grub/grub.d/*.cfg and have an install procedure drop in one or more menu items instead of every os install or update rewriting the entire grub.cfg every time. -- Bruce Dubbs linuxfromscratch.org ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub

Re: USB3 3TB HDD boot

2013-03-15 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Chris Murphy wrote: On Mar 15, 2013, at 8:51 AM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 08:56:18PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: Right, for a 4Kn drive, to read LBA 1 and get the GPT header I'd need: sudo dd if=/dev/disk3 skip=8 count=1 2>/dev/null | hexdump -C Wouldn't using 'bs=40

Re: Console Resolution with GRUB2

2013-02-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs
or use the distro's method of building it. -- Bruce On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 7:13 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote: Hello Bruce, The "problem" with this is that grub.cfg says "Do Not Edit this File". The reason it says this is that it is embedde

Re: Console Resolution with GRUB2

2013-02-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs
D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote: Hello Bruce, The "problem" with this is that grub.cfg says "Do Not Edit this File". The reason it says this is that it is embedded in the script grub-mkconfig. It overwrites the grub.cfg, but if you don't run that and only do manual edits, then it's not there. The p

Re: Console Resolution with GRUB2

2013-02-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote: Hello Peter and the rest of the group. I appreciate Peter's efforts to help. However, nothing so far works as needed. With the old grub users who needed larger size characters simply added a vga= line to the boot code. It was simple. Now it seems to be very complex.

Re: GRUB and the risk of block list corruption in extX

2013-02-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 06:17:57PM +0100, Martin Wilck wrote: In my case, the reason is a multiboot setup based on chainloading the indiviual installed OS's bootloaders from a central, primary bootloader. This is easily accomplished by installing the individual OS's bootl

GRUB 2.00 build and flex-2.5.37

2012-08-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
The latest flex makes the GRUB-2.00 build fail. I can work around the issues with --disable-werror, but grub-core/script/yylex.l causes two warnings that do not work with -Werror. ./grub-core/script/yylex.l: At top level: grub_script.yy.c:2351:13: error: 'yy_fatal_error' defined but not used

grub-2.00 build problem (gets)

2012-07-19 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I ran into a minor problem building GRUB-2.00 with glibc-2.16.0. I had to run a simple command to bypass the problem: sed -i -e '/gets is a security/d' grub-core/gnulib/stdio.in.h This may already be fixed, but I thought I'd post just in case. This has also been showing up in several other p

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: Minor documentation issue

2012-06-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Mike Gilbert wrote: On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: By the way, the html is not well formed. There are many missing tags. HTML 4 and earlier do not require closing tags for . Yes, you are right of course. They are allowed though. All my pages are xhtml strict, so

Minor documentation issue

2012-06-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
The web site still has the 2.00~rc1 manual. I was asked a question about GRUB and CD-ROMS and checked the sites's html documentation. There are at least two places where the html is generated from the texi file incorrectly. texi: * Installing GRUB using grub-install:: * Making a GRUB bootab

Re: Release of 2.00~rc1

2012-06-26 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: Hello, all. I'm proud to introduce 2.00~rc1 to you. It's available as ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-2.00~rc1.tar.gz or ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-2.00~rc1.tar.xz Looks very good. From an LFS point of view, the only trivial warnings I

Re: The submenu command shows a text-based menu when using a GFX theme.

2012-02-26 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Towheed Mohammed wrote: I have tested this on separate distros, including but not limited to: ArchLinux, Debian (and Debian-based distros), Slackware, Fedora, VectorLinux and openSUSE (some others I can't recall ATM), all with and without separate /boot partitions and all with GRUB 1.99 installed

Re: Various build failures in current bzr tree

2012-02-12 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Lennart Sorensen wrote: Looks like they all come from double-linked list code. This should help: === modified file 'include/grub/list.h' --- include/grub/list.h2012-01-29 17:09:53 + +++ include/grub/list.h2012-02-12 01:00:48 + @@ -24,6 +24,10 @@ #include #include +struct gr

GNU Grub Web Page

2012-01-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
At the request of the GNU Webmasters, I've renamed all the pages for the web site from filename.en.html to just filename.html and adjusted all the links at http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/. If I missed anything or a page needs an update, please let me know. -- Bruce __

[Fwd: GRUB 1.99 Documentation Observation]

2011-12-20 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Forwarding. -- Bruce Original Message Subject: GRUB 1.99 Documentation Observation Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:55:54 -0800 (PST) From: Douglas Morris Reply-To: Douglas Morris Thanks for your work on documenting grub which I plan to use with my installation of GNU/Linux. I h

New bash-completion script for GRUB utilities

2011-09-11 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I just noticed that GRUB 1.99 installs two files /etc/bash_completion.d. Why are these library functions installed in /etc instead of /lib? -- Bruce ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: grub 1.99 configuration

2011-06-23 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: On 12.06.2011 04:28, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I'm trying to manually run grub-mkconfig to establish grub-1.99 installation instructions for Linux From Scratch. I am getting: grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg /usr/sbin/grub-probe: err

Re: grub 1.99 configuration

2011-06-12 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Colin Watson wrote: On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 09:28:13PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg /usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot stat `/dev/root' http://bugs.debian.org/627587 You can fix it by backporting r3318 from trunk: http://bazaar.launchpad.net

grub 1.99 configuration

2011-06-11 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I'm trying to manually run grub-mkconfig to establish grub-1.99 installation instructions for Linux From Scratch. I am getting: grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg /usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot stat `/dev/root' Doing some investigating grub-mkconfig is running: /usr/sbin/grub-probe

Grub Wiki

2011-06-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs
The link http://grub.enbug.org/ is dead. I have a link to that page in the GRUB Web page at http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/. Is there an updated link or should I just remove the link? -- Bruce ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https

Minor GRUB manul issue

2011-05-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Obtaining-and-Building-GRUB Needs to be updated for new GRUB location. s/alpha/ftp/ in two places. -- Bruce ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub

Re: Change download URL on grub web site

2011-05-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
KESHAV P.R. wrote: On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 20:28, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Metatech wrote: Hello, Please change the download URL for grub. On page http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-download.en.html it still links to ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/ and it should now point to the new URL : ftp

Re: Change download URL on grub web site

2011-05-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Metatech wrote: Hello, Please change the download URL for grub. On page http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-download.en.html it still links to ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/ and it should now point to the new URL : ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/grub/ OK, done. Thanks for the reminder. -- Bruce __

Re: GRUB 1.99 released

2011-05-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: Hello, all I'm proud to announce the release of GNU GRUB version 1.99. Congratulations on the release. As one who builds almost everything form source, the download and build went very smoothly. Thank you. I want to share some nits with you. U

[Fwd: wiki]

2011-04-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I don't have access to modify this page, but the link Reinhardrefers to does need to be removed. -- Bruce Original Message Subject: wiki Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 09:04:01 +0200 From: Reinhard Echle To: Dear Bruce, sorry, I didn't found an address to report a stupid link i

Re: Your contributions to grub.enbug.org

2011-03-31 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: Hello, when discussing after the temporary wiki problems it was decided that it would be better to migrate the information from wiki into the manual and developper manual where legal reasons permit. You have contributed to the wiki, would you agree to

Re: Full documentation for GRUB2

2011-03-30 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Chris Murphy wrote: On Mar 29, 2011, at 9:19 AM, Patrick Strasser wrote: Moreover googling is no alternative to proper documentation. I'd like to contribute examples that I found to the grub docs, but the manual gives no hint how to do so... ;-) It's the developers task and skill to document

Re: Full documentation for GRUB2

2011-03-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Leslie Rhorer wrote: I sympathize, but only to a point. No matter how dreary or how daunting the volume of work, it is essential it be done. I agree. I looked into helping do some of the documentation, but found that I just did not know enough of the internals to properly do it.

Minor GRUB manual issue

2011-02-19 Thread Bruce Dubbs
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html The on-line manual has a link problem. There are several references to http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/multiboot.html#Top that should be http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/multiboot/multiboot.html I traced the problem to grub

Re: AMI Aptio EFI booting problems on ASUS G73SW-A1

2011-02-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Nate Weibley wrote: Per your suggestion I tried other linux distros with various kernels. So far none of the EFI enabled distros are working. They do work if booted via BIOS though, of course. Windows 7 64bit *does * boot appropriately via EFI, so it's hard to say where the fault is. If Windows

Re: Documentation bug?

2011-01-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Chris Jones wrote: On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 09:22:36PM EST, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Chris Jones wrote: I plan to make extensive changes to a multi-boot environment and I looked in ‘GNU GRUB Manual 1.99~beta0’ for a way to create a CD/DVD that would reflect the state of my grub

Re: Documentation bug?

2011-01-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Chris Jones wrote: Sorry for the catchy ’Subject:’ above, I am not sure at this point whether it is appropriate. I plan to make extensive changes to a multi-boot environment and I looked in ‘GNU GRUB Manual 1.99~beta0’ for a way to create a CD/DVD that would reflect the state of my grub

Re: Grub-devel Digest, Vol 79, Issue 2

2010-09-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs
James Miller wrote: If you've any comments on the document I've attached then let me know. Can you put it into a more open source friendly format please. -- Bruce ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinf

Re: next release of grub2?

2010-08-23 Thread Bruce Dubbs
KESHAV P.R. wrote: This the only site that currently hosts whatever documentation grub2 carries. Did you see http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/index.html -- Bruce ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.o

Re: my thoughts about grub 2

2010-08-18 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Lennart Sorensen wrote: grub2 is multi architecture, modular, extendible, and much more robust than grub1. The fact it no longer depends on any block maps to work is a great thing. The fact it uses modules to build the required features in and loads any others needed on demand means it can sup

grub.texi

2010-07-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
There are several problems in grub.texi. 1. There are several references to Multiboot using @pxref or @xref, but Multiboot is not a node within grub.texi. This causes a 404 on the website. @Section History of GRUB @section GRUB features (2 times) @subsection How to boot an OS directly with G

Re: Web site redesign

2010-06-12 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: On 06/07/2010 11:09 PM, Colin Watson wrote: Hi Bruce, I just committed a couple of typo fixes to the website, and suddenly the redesign you committed back in February went live, rather to my surprise when the page I was editing vanished. I guess the

Re: GCC 4.5

2010-05-20 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: Hello, all. I've noticed that GCC 4.5 is released and is available in debian. With this version -mregparam=3 bug is fixed. So I intend to remove all NESTED_FUNC_ATTR and use -mregparm=3 only on gcc >=4.5 and -mregparam=1 otherwise. This has the disadva

Re: grub2 back to lilo ?

2010-05-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Colin D Bennett wrote: Perhaps instead of pre-generating the entire GRUB configuration (e.g. from a particular Distro like Ubuntu 9.10) things could be inserted into the main grub.cfg at GRUB boot time. Here's just a portion of what Ubuntu 10.04 puts in the generated grub.cfg (of course with a s

Re: Broken build

2010-03-26 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote: Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: Carles Pina i Estany wrote: Hi, On Mar/17/2010, Bruce Dubbs wrote: With the addition of the internationalization code, building GRUB in a separate directory fa

Re: Broken build

2010-03-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: Carles Pina i Estany wrote: Hi, On Mar/17/2010, Bruce Dubbs wrote: With the addition of the internationalization code, building GRUB in a separate directory fails. I'll take a look into it "soon" (next days or nex

Broken build

2010-03-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs
With the addition of the internationalization code, building GRUB in a separate directory fails. mkdir build cd build ../configure make cd .. && /usr/bin/xgettext -ctranslate --from-code=utf-8 -o ../po/grub.pot -f ../po/POTFILES --keyword=_ --keyword=N_ /usr/bin/xgettext: error while opening "

Re: pointers to bzr location

2010-02-22 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Colin Watson wrote: On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 08:39:45AM -0600, Dustin Kirkland wrote: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-2-download.en.html led me to http://savannah.gnu.org/bzr/?group=grub which says: Anonymous read-only access bzr branch http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/grub . Note: t

Re: Antialiased fonts patch.

2010-02-11 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Evgeny Kolesnikov wrote: If we really care about speed we should use 1-bit fonts. Nothing can be faster. And 1-bit fonts will stay here. But if we care about eye-candy view, we should not throw away any bits from FT library result. This will not be fast enough to replace 1-bit fonts, and it wil

Re: Simplified Chinese screenshots

2010-02-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Carles Pina i Estany wrote: Hi, On Feb/01/2010, Chris Jones wrote: On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 04:32:14PM EST, Carles Pina i Estany wrote: Hi, Aron Xu sent me some screenshots of Grub booting time in Chinese: http://carles.lastdot.org/Screenshot-QEMU.png http://carles.lastdot.org/Screenshot-QEMU

Re: [PATCH] Fix a special case when accessing partition on linux

2010-01-31 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: Because of cache coherency problem grub accesses partitions on linux by hdaX device and not by hda with correct offset. The problem is that because of 4K cache blocks disk.c may read sectors before the partition and hence making hostdisk.c try to read

Re: Building Grub2 manual?

2010-01-30 Thread Bruce Dubbs
BandiPat wrote: Quick question guys! I notice there is a grub.texi file that is suppose to be built as a grub.info.gz during the build, which gives you the new manual? I'm not getting that with my build. Now maybe I don't have a program installed it needs to make that conversion, but I do n

GRUB FAQ

2010-01-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I'm working on updating the GRUB FAQ. So far I've got the following questions. Does anyone have any corrections or additional questions? After I define the questions, I'll work on the answers. :) -- Bruce 1. I have questions about GRUB! 2. Why did you need to rewrite GRUB? 3. How does

Re: Is it possible to have grub2's boot.img as my MBR, but have it look in a separate partition for core.img?

2010-01-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Wesley Smith wrote: It would be nice if Grub2 could both make a partition bootable and also install an MBR that relied on that partition (rather than the embedded core.img). I know this is "dangerous," but it is necessary sometimes, and it was not at all difficult to accomplish with legacy Grub.

Re: [PATCH] nested partitions

2010-01-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Robert Millan wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 07:03:21PM +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: Partition types are easily screwed. Why not just check for the presence of the label? I have a feeling I already explained this somewhere. Doesn't seem to be in this thread, maybe on

Re: Bazaar workflow for GRUB

2010-01-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs
BVK Chaitanya wrote: Attached is the initial version of workflow document for GRUB contributions. I am yet to get right DVCS right, so I suspect it might have minor differences from what other developers are following already. I can't comment on details, but thank you for this. It is very he

Re: [RFC] Dynamic device.map

2010-01-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Felix Zielcke wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 07.01.2010, 23:27 -0600 schrieb Bruce Dubbs: OK, I didn't realize set root was capable of using UUIDs. I did know that the two root entries were different. I got that mixed up with the search command combined with the root=UUID=... which I

Re: [RFC] Dynamic device.map

2010-01-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs
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 wi

Re: [RFC] Dynamic device.map

2010-01-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs
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

Re: GRUB Faq

2010-01-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs
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 t

Re: [BRANCH] Bidi support.

2010-01-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote: Is there a location where the grub.cfg file that generated the image can be viewed? Attached. Mostly based on Colin's overlay grub.cfg. Excellent. It helps me a l

Re: [BRANCH] Bidi support.

2010-01-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: Hello, all. I'm here to announce initial bidi support in one of my branches, namely people/phcoder/bidi. Looks very nice. Is there a location where the grub.cfg file that generated the image can be viewed? -- Bruce __

Re: GRUB Faq

2010-01-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Lapohos Tibor wrote: To clarify, I was talking about the headings: Building / Installation from Source Build Prerequisites Example This is covered in the INSTALL file. I've submitted a new one, but it hasn't been committed. In the meantime you can get most of what you need from: http://w

GRUB Faq

2010-01-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
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. I think we should come up with a new list of FAQs here and agree on the answers. I'll be glad to format it. The current que

Re: autogen.sh warnings

2010-01-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Robert Millan wrote: On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 09:50:47PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Robert Millan wrote: What is exactly the problem? Using automake without Makefile.am is non-standard and not provided for within automake. The only thing we use automake for is to copy config.{guess,sub} to

Re: grub.info

2009-12-30 Thread Bruce Dubbs
s would be handled though. -- Bruce Dubbs ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: grub.info

2009-12-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Bruce O. Benson wrote: If I: - ...merged the contents of both existing documents into a new one... - ...that adhered to the outline you enumerated... - ...assigned copyright to FSF... - ...rendered in texi, html, and pdf. ...Would that be useful for someone to check in to trunk/docs? I don't w

Re: grub.info

2009-12-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs
another: The content of bzr trunk/docs has a file, grub.texi. Line 6 says: @settitle GNU GRUB Manual @value{VERSION} The wiki is indeed helpful, but not the official GRUB Manual. Both 'Manuals' are terribly incomplete. -- Bruce Dubbs __

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