Re: Re: Grub2 on UEFI

2010-01-29 Thread gburanov
> /EFI/Boot/GRUB/bootx64.efi > /EFI/Boot/eLilo/bootx64.efi > /EFI/Boot/Microsoft/bootx64.efi > > I need a way to load both Boot Manager and eLilo for grub. Can you please > show me the example of > config file? > > The command to use is chainloader or similar (as opposed to the > 'linux' comm

Build GRUB for UEFI (not EFI), 64 bit

2010-01-31 Thread gburanov
Hello everybody. I am currently trying to build grub for UEFI (I got new modern Intel motherboard that support boot loading). According to the grub manual, I use ./configure --with-platform=efi --target=x86_64 make ./grub-mkimage -d- -o bootx64.efi modules_list and try to load from it. it does

Re: Re: Build GRUB for UEFI (not EFI), 64 bit

2010-02-04 Thread gburanov
Vladimir can you please send me your compiled grub2 for efi, 64 bit? I will try to run it on my computer? > I tested with 64-bit qemu-tianocore actually, and in this case it's not an emulation. -- This message was sent on behalf of gbura...@gmail.com at openSubscriber.com http://www.opensubs

Search GPT partition in GRUB

2010-02-04 Thread gburanov
Hello everybody. I am currently trying to realize the following functionality: I want grub to load the kernel from GPT partition. I am using grub build for UEFI. So, I got following questions for now: I don't want to use standart naming conversion, here are some reasons: * It is not clear what

Re: Re: Search GPT partition in GRUB

2010-02-05 Thread gburanov
> The NTFS "UUID" (actually the volume serial number rather than a proper > UUID) is 64 bits long, so we have a space of 2^64 possible UUIDs. That's > very close to the number of stars in the observable universe. I believe > that the volume serial number is typically generated based on the date >

Re: Re: Search GPT partition in GRUB

2010-02-10 Thread gburanov
-- Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote : Colin Watson wrote: >> It would be ideal if we can search the GPT partition/disk by GUID - >> that's what we got NTFS GUID for =) >> > > That would be nice, and it might not be all that difficult to implement, > but of course it would take up e

Re: Re: [patch] GRUB possible patches

2010-02-12 Thread gburanov
Hello, > It is. Can you write a ChangeLog entry? Done > ;1 is so called version. Basically all terminating ; have to be > stripped but only if filename doesn't come from rockridge or joliet. > Apparently nobody uses grub2 on non-rockridge, non-joliet iso. While > this bug should be fixed using

Re: freeze announcement

2010-02-16 Thread gburanov
> Hi, > trunk repository is now frozen in preparation for GRUB 1.98, which will be > released soon, most likely this month. > I leave Vladimir in charge of this freeze process. Please ask him for > approval when in doubt. Hello, I am really newbie to the process of reviewing/comming code to GNU r

Re: Re: What's the point of allocating the protected mode code on 0x100000 only (UEFI)

2010-02-16 Thread gburanov
> As I already said I have a working prototype for this in newreloc branch. Thanks you, it works! -- Regards Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko -- This message was sent on behalf of gbura...@gmail.com at openSubscriber.com http://www.opensubscriber.com/message/grub-devel@gnu.org/13437030.h

Re: Re: [patch] GRUB possible patches

2010-02-16 Thread gburanov
> First part applied Thanks! > Please don't put unrelated patches into single file. Fast look on the > joliet.c of mkisofs suggests that it's not the case for its joliet. It > seems there is more to it. Can you find some normative documents? I searched a bit and found the following information: D

Re: [patch] search for partition using GPT GUID

2010-02-17 Thread gburanov
What about this patch? It is possible to integrate it, at least in the experimental branch? -- This message was sent on behalf of gbura...@gmail.com at openSubscriber.com http://www.opensubscriber.com/message/grub-devel@gnu.org/13421616.html ___ Grub-

Re: Re: [patch] search for partition using GPT GUID

2010-02-24 Thread gburanov
> I asked you for at least a usecase when it makes a difference but till > now I've read only about theoretical advantages. Ok, my usecase is the following: We are installing grub to EFI system partition and on the next load it must load itself (rmadisk&kernel) from Windows partiton (where our ma

GRUB2 for UEFI crashes at startup when we got 8 gigabyte of memory

2010-04-21 Thread gburanov
In Febryary I was testing GRUB for UEFI and noticed that it was simply crashing. See topic http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2010-02/msg0.html At that time I blamed incorrect UEFI implementation on that computer (cause it worked fine on another one), but now I noticed that when I

Re: Re: search and boot using GPT GUID values

2010-04-21 Thread gburanov
Great that somebody agrees with me on the GUIDs =) In you have problems with compile/testing, feel free to reply here (or to my mail directly). I ahave made some fixes to it. Again, I am talking about integration it to the GRUB. This is MUST HAVE feature, at least for UEFI support -- This mess

Re: Re: GRUB2 for UEFI crashes at startup when we got 8 gigabyte of memory

2010-04-21 Thread gburanov
> It may be a recent regression because we have a reports of successful > boot in such configuration > (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2009-05/msg00179.html and > neighbour threads). > Be sure that grub is compiled with -mcmodel=large. You can also try > disable usage of >4GiB memory