Re: [PATCH] Correct spelling of *scheduled*

In the same line of the comment, "miscellaneous" is also spelled incorrectly. On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 3:13 AM, Paul Menzel < paulepan...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Date: Sun, 24 May 2015 23:27:46 +0200 > > Run the command below > > $ git grep -l schedulded | xargs sed -i 's/schedulde

Re: [PATCH] Removing nested functions, part one of lots

On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > В Tue, 1 Jan 2013 14:42:04 + > Colin Watson пишет: > > > > > * If a hook requires more than one local variable from its parent > >function, declare "struct _ctx" with the necessary > >variables, and convert both the hook and t

Re: Secure Boot. Why don't you take the wind out of their sails?

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 12:04 AM, Chris Murphy 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 >&

Re: Secure Boot. Why don't you take the wind out of their sails?

>> However, your short easy-to-understand summary is incorrect. The >> bootloader password doesn't protect against malware, and it offers >> only a little protection against "anybody taking over your computer". >> In fact, if some malware rewrote the grub configuration file, it could >> be quite a

Re: Secure Boot. Why don't you take the wind out of their sails?

I'll decloak to offer my response, but please remember that I'm not one of the developers so my opinion is of limited value. By the same token, I've been recognized by Microsoft for community contributions, but I do not work for them and do not speak for them. First, putting things in simple lang

Re: Timeout broken with serial port

On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Aleš Nesrsta wrote: > Hi, > > I think it is not GRUB related problem, more probably there is some HW > problem on Your serial port. Try to check idle voltage on RxD pin of > serial port (best with oscilloscope... :-) ). Or You can have some > unwanted "leakage" betw

Re: Automatic module license checking

When does this check run? Seems ridiculous to do this on every boot cycle, a bootloader should execute as quickly as possible, not try to solve the world's legal problems. Just my $0.02 2011/4/11 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko : > Hello, all. Due to recent case of non-compliance with GPL

Re: Full documentation for GRUB2

> I've wondered occasionally whether it would be worth it to include > something like GRUB_STATIC in upstream grub-mkconfig; if set, this would > cause grub-mkconfig to do nothing, perhaps printing a message.  This > would mean you wouldn't have to figure out how to disable distribution > facilitie

Re: Out of Memory Error

> On 03/29/2011 05:48 PM, richardvo...@gmail.com wrote: >> Which SSD?  This sounds rather like the infamous OCZ time warp.  Are >> other changes made to the SSD lost, or only the boot sector? On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Phillip Susi wrote: > What OCZ time warp?  I have an

Re: Out of Memory Error

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Gus Zernial wrote: > I've posted my problem to this list before without getting a > solution - also to grub-help and Ubuntu forum(s), no answer - I'm > stumped and would really appreciate help. > > I have Kubuntu 10.10, a custom 2.6.37.1 kernel, and GRUB2. I was on

Re: [PATCH] Improve documentation of BIOS installation

> -@strong{Caution:} Be very careful which partition you select!  When GRUB > -finds a BIOS Boot Partition during installation, it will automatically > -overwrite part of it.  Make sure that the partition does not contain any > -other data. +@xref{BIOS installation}, for details on where the core i

Re: Documentation bug?

> > > I have just downloaded a tarball of grub-1.99~rc1, and a ‘find’ command > on the untarred tree did not return any positives either. > What tarball have you downloaded? Source code, probably. stage2_eltorito is machine code that has to be compiled for the particular architecture. __

Re: Guidance on conflicts between GNU GRUB and proprietary software

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Richard Stallman wrote: >> It appears that, rather than the operating system itself being at > fault, >> a number of Windows applications take over a sector in the boot track >> and store bits and pieces of data there. > > I am surprised applications ca

Re: [RFC] Detect other software using embedding area

On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 10:14 AM, C. P. Ghost wrote: > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > Maybe one should use external boot media of > > which GRUB can claim complete ownership. > > I.e. an USB stick or a CD which hosts GRUB and > > a custom configuration. > > This way, G

Re: [PATCH] Optimise memset on i386

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 2:48 PM, richardvo...@gmail.com < richardvo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Christian Franke < > christian.fra...@t-online.de> wrote: > >> richardvoigt wrote: >> >>> >>> might I suggest

Re: [PATCH] Optimise memset on i386

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Christian Franke < christian.fra...@t-online.de> wrote: > richardvoigt wrote: > >> >> might I suggest: >> >> unsigned long patternl = pattern8; >> patternl |= patternl << 8; >> patternl |= patternl << 16; >> patternl |= patternl << 32; >> patternl |= patternl << 6

Re: [PATCH] Optimise memset on i386

[snip] > + unsigned long patternl = 0; > + grub_size_t i; > + > + for (i = 0; i < sizeof (unsigned long); i++) > + patternl |= ((unsigned long) pattern8) << (8 * i); > + > might I suggest: unsigned long patternl = pattern8; patternl |= patternl << 8; patternl |= patternl <<

Re: Bug in multiboot_mbi2.c

What, you want to control color channels independently? Aren't monochromatic amber displays good enough any more? :) On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Seth Goldberg wrote: > >  The code that constructs the framebuffer info has a nasty bug where the > field position and mask size for red are set

Re: [Patch] Simple USB hub support

On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 4:21 AM, Aleš Nesrsta wrote: > Hi, > > included patch should make USB hubs operational. > > It works in the same simple way as whole GRUB2 USB support, i.e. USB hub > and device must be connected to computer BEFORE uhci/ohci module is > loaded. > > Note (mainly for Vladimir

Re: Which partitioning schemes should be supported by GRUB?

> I can think of an alternative.  We do still need grub_install_dos_part > and grub_install_bsd_part for the multiboot trampoline, which is in > assembly, so it's difficult to abandon them altogether.  However, > there's no reason we need to use them in make_install_device.  How about > we invent a

Re: escape strings in grub.cfg

On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 7:09 PM, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 10:10:15PM +0100, Carles Pina i Estany wrote: >> Last weekend, the Asturian team found a bug in Grub. Thanks for the >> debugging. The string that appears in grub.cfg for "Loading the initram" >> in Asturian is "Cargand

Re: Multiboot2 Suggestions

>>> 8) Any RAM that is not immediately usable by the OS should not be >>> reported as "usable RAM" in the memory map. An example of this is the >>> "ACPI reclaimable" area (which is RAM that isn't usable until the OS >>> has finished using the ACPI tables). RAM used to store the multi-boot >>> info

Re: Broken build

2010/3/26 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko : > 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 separa

Re: Help regarding booting application processor

> Ok, I will think in this direction. I just wanted to verify whether > the code in the trampoline.S is correct or not. Well, I'm not qualified to review your trampoline, I read x86 assembler but I'm not familiar with the details of the boot sequence. I think you're in the right place to find some

Re: Help regarding booting application processor

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 12:57 AM, Swapnil Pimpale wrote: > Hi all, > >  I am a final year engineering student and I am doing my project in > GRUB-1.97~beta4 and Linux Kernel 2.6.24.7. > >  I am working on Intel Core 2 Duo architecture. I want to boot a > separate kernel on the second core. >  As o

Re: Licensing Re: Lead-up message 'Welcome to GRUB!' ...

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Isaac Dupree wrote: > On 02/21/10 15:38, richardvo...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 4:00 AM, Robo L  wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Firstly I would like to thank everyone for the reply and Y

Re: Lead-up message 'Welcome to GRUB!' inverted text printed lowlevel via BIOS ?!?

On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 4:00 AM, Robo L wrote: > > Hi all, > > Firstly I would like to thank everyone for the reply and Your time. > > I would like to clarify the issue. > First I need to hide the very first Welcom message because I need to hide > GRUB for other users of MS Windows on my PC. I nee

Re: Lead-up message 'Welcome to GRUB!' inverted text printed lowlevel via BIOS ?!?

2010/2/20 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko : > Robo L wrote: >> >> I mean, that Grub print via lowlevel printig (int 0x10) with >> proprietary string data. > It's true that most BIOSes are proprietary and we're against non-free > firmware. Unfortunately, however, most motherboards around aren'

Re: Lead-up message 'Welcome to GRUB!' inverted text printed lowlevel via BIOS ?!?

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 4:24 AM, Robo L wrote: > Hi All > I have a problem with remove the message "Welcome to GRUB!" in text Mode. > In source 1.96 I remove Welcome text message, when call function > grub_printf(). > In gfx mod is all OK, but If I not initialize gfx mode grub steel show > "Welcom

Re: [PATCH][UPDATED] support for xz compression format

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Seth Goldberg wrote: > y > > Quoting richardvo...@gmail.com, who wrote the following on Tue, 16 Feb 2010: > >> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Szymon Janc wrote: >>> >>> Dnia wtorek 16 luty 2010 o 14:44:45 Vladimir '

Re: [RFC] Framebuffer rotation patch

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Michal Suchanek wrote: > 2010/2/16 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko : >> Michal Suchanek wrote: With typeof macro this can be made type-neutral avoiding potential mistakes. +static inline long +grub_min (long x, long y) +{ +  if

Re: [PATCH][UPDATED] support for xz compression format

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Szymon Janc wrote: > Dnia wtorek 16 luty 2010 o 14:44:45 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko > napisał(a): > >> + #define VLI_MAX_DIGITS 9 >> Are you sure it's 9? It gives only 63 and not 64 bits > It is a limitation of xz format. > >> +   if (! test_header(file

Re: [RFC] Framebuffer rotation patch

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Isaac Dupree wrote: > On 02/16/10 10:52, Michal Suchanek wrote: >>> >>> enum allows it just fine >> >> Not here: >> >> typedef enum t1 { BTI1 = 1, > > typo, should be "BIT1". then it works. (In C.  Also remember not to get > confused by the fact that it doesn't wo

Re: avoid possible overflow?

2010/2/16 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko : > Carles Pina i Estany wrote: >> Hello, >> >> The common pattern when doing a search by bisection is something like: >> +      current = min + (max - min) / 2; >> >> Instead of the first natural idea: >> -      current = (max + min) / 2; >> >> To av

Re: Antialiased fonts patch.

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 7:30 AM, Michal Suchanek wrote: > On 26 January 2010 11:04, Evgeny Kolesnikov wrote: >> Hi, >> >>> At first I was completely against antialiasing support because of >>> performance impact. But it being optional decreases the later. However >>> there is one problem: your pa

Re: Setting of PE bit reboots the system

On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Swapnil Pimpale wrote: > Hi all, > > I am working on GRUB 2 on Intel Core 2 Duo architecture. As a part of > my academic project, I need to bring up the second core. > When the second core comes up, I need to switch from real mode to > protected mode. > For this,

Re: Changes in GRUB help

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 03:12:51PM -0600, richardvo...@gmail.com wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 7:22 AM, KESHAV P.R. wrote: >> > Yes, the patch definitely works. It is part of Fedora's GRUB2 src-rpm >>

Re: Changes in GRUB help

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 7:22 AM, KESHAV P.R. wrote: >> Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 09:08:45 +0100 >> From: Robert Millan >> Subject: Re: Changes in GRUB help >> To: The development of GNU GRUB >> Message-ID: <20100125080845.gi13...@thorin> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >> >> On Sun, J

Re: [multiboot] command-line format

> Also, I firmly believe that we shouldn't be satisfied with flawed solutions > just because they're part of our legacy baggage.  We can do better than this > because Free Software is more flexible and more powerful.  For example, NetBSD > can distribute its own version of GRUB and patch it, and co

Re: Build error: "ENABLE_NLS" is not defined

2010/1/12 Grégoire Sutre : > richardvo...@gmail.com wrote: > >> This fix breaks when ENABLE_NLS is defined as 0. > > AFAICS, in the implementation of AM_GNU_GETTEXT, ENABLE_NLS is either not > defined or set to 1. > > But I agree that my proposed fix is too depende

Re: Build error: "ENABLE_NLS" is not defined

2010/1/12 Grégoire Sutre : > Hi, > > When NLS is disabled or not supported, the macro ENABLE_NLS is not defined, > and this breaks compilation of GRUB modules as they are compiled with > -Werror -Wundef by default.  This is with bazaar trunk. > > $ ./autogen.sh && ./configure && gmake > [...] > gcc

Re: GRUB Faq

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 1:40 PM, 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. > >

Re: [RFC] Multiboot ammendment: non-VBE video

On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Isaac Dupree wrote: > Robert Millan wrote: >>> >>> In this case color_info is defined as following: >> >> I'd appreciate if a native English speaker confirms this, but I believe >> this should say "as follows" (same for the other instances of this >> construct). >

Re: grub.info

2009/12/31 Bruce O. Benson : > > 2009/12/31 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko >> >> Bruce O. Benson wrote: >> > >> > 2009/12/30 Bruce Dubbs > > > >> > >> >     Bruce O. Benson wrote: >> > All contributors can safely, legally add/merge/move stuff there if >> > desi

Re: [PATCH] Backup old boot sectors before installation

On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Zhu Yi wrote: > On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 06:04 +0800, Isaac Dupree wrote: >> > Option 1~3 requires the recover has the knowledge of the backup file >> > format somehow, but a simple dd is enough for option 4. What do you >> > think? >> >> If the partitioning had been

Re: Grub is the bootloader used on Win7?

On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Felix Zielcke wrote: > Am Freitag, den 25.12.2009, 19:15 -0200 schrieb Renato S.Yamane: >> Hi, >> >> I´m a GNU/Linux user, but I have a computer with Windows too (fresh >> install, with NO Linux installed) >> >> Recently, my RAID5 failed, sometimes I get a corrupet

Re: [PATCH] Backup old boot sectors before installation

>> In conclusion, I believe this backup feature is useful and either >> implementation should do the work. If we can merge the good parts of >> them, we can get a better one. I just curious why the thread is stuck >> since September. Any blocking issues with it? Can we keep the topic >> moving forw

Re: gettext: commands/hdparm.c

On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Carles Pina i Estany wrote: > > Hello, > > commands/hdparm.c has some grub_printf's: >  grub_printf ("Model:    \"%.40s\"\n", le16_to_char (tmp, &idw[27], 40)); >  grub_printf ("Firmware: \"%.8s\"\n",  le16_to_char (tmp, &idw[23], 8)); >  grub_printf ("Serial:   \"

Re: USB device not seen by grub

2009/12/4 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko : > Robert Millan wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 06:27:07PM -0600, richardvo...@gmail.com wrote: >> >>> 2009/12/3 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko : >>> >>>> Chris Jones wrote:

Re: [solved] Re: USB device not seen by grub

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Chris Jones wrote: > On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 05:52:37PM EST, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko > wrote: > > [..] > >> This is just module loading. I guess your terminal is slow which causes >> an enormous slowback when loading module. You can using > >> debug=u

Re: USB device not seen by grub

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Robert Millan wrote: > On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 06:27:07PM -0600, richardvo...@gmail.com wrote: >> 2009/12/3 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko : >> > Chris Jones wrote: >> >> I am trying to have grub boot off a partit

Re: USB device not seen by grub

2009/12/3 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko : > Chris Jones wrote: >> I am trying to have grub boot off a partition on a USB stick. >> >> > You can't chainload to disk invisible by BIOS. But you can load > supported OSes from it. What would be necessary to enable chainload to such devices? In

Re: [PATCH] Faster glyph lookup by BMP index

Is this table stored in the file or built during font load? 128KiB in memory is no issue at all on modern systems, 128KiB in a file is somewhat more troublesome since it won't fit in a boot sector, is a big chunk of a rescue diskette, and the I/O cost is noticeable. These glyphs are stored in sor

Re: Imminent bugfix release (1.97.1)

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Duboucher Thomas wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Bean a écrit : >> Hi, >> >> Oh, I just come up with a better way to do this: >> >> typedef char grub_password_t[1024]; >> >> int >> grub_auth_strcmp (const grub_password_t s1, const grub_

Re: Grub-devel Digest, Vol 69, Issue 19

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 4:06 AM, Pedro A ARANDA wrote: > Hi all, > > just my .2 euto-cents: > > With this function, you always assume that strlen(s1) <= strlen(s2), > right? > >> int >> grub_auth_strcmp (const char *s1, const char *s2) >> { >> int n; >> volatile int ret = 0; >> >> for (n = gru

Re: Imminent bugfix release (1.97.1)

> Hello, > > I'd be concerned about (s1 != s2).  Depending on how efficiently this > compiles, could not branch prediction make this faster for match vs. not > match, etc?.  I'd be worried about all the ways (and future ways) compilers > might help us and introduce time differences. I was avoiding

Re: Imminent bugfix release (1.97.1)

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Duboucher Thomas wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Robert Millan a écrit : >> On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 10:43:48PM +0100, Duboucher Thomas wrote: >>>      Well, the only way to solve that problem would be IMHO to add a limit >>> to the size

Re: grub-1.97

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Michal Suchanek wrote: >> >> 2009/10/28 Bruce Dubbs : > >>> I'd also like to make a comment.  It may be useful if you split up the >>> build >>> into subdirectories by component.  When I extracted the tarball, there >>> were >>> 57 files/direc

Re: Macbook, Efi, Display mode

On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 7:38 PM, Stefan Bienert wrote: > richardvo...@gmail.com wrote: >>> I have an idea what might be wrong in my gentoo kernel. I hope I find >>> the time for a little bit of testing, tomorrow. >> >> Did you compile it yourself (emerge >>

Re: Macbook, Efi, Display mode

> I have an idea what might be wrong in my gentoo kernel. I hope I find > the time for a little bit of testing, tomorrow. Did you compile it yourself (emerge gentoo-sources/vanilla-sources/hardened-sources then make menuconfig then make bzImage) or did you use genkernel? > > greetings, > > Stefan

Re: [PATCH] Refuse to install on XFS destroying its superblock

On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 7:09 AM, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > Robert Millan wrote: >> On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 01:43:37PM +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko >> wrote: >> >>> Robert Millan wrote: >>> On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 12:18:05AM +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrot

Re: [2637] 2009-10-16 Colin Watson

On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 6:40 AM, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > Robert Millan wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 03:38:44PM +, Colin Watson wrote: >> >>> Revision: 2637 >>>           http://svn.sv.gnu.org/viewvc/?view=rev&root=grub&revision=2637 >>> Author:   cjwatson >>> Date:     2009

Re: Handling multiple cores by GRUB

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 11:44 AM, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > 2009/10/14 Robert Millan : >> But I don't think this would be desireable except in very specific >> situations, >> and I'm not sure which ones.  Perhaps loading a compressed file would be an >> example (so that uncompression and dis

Re: [GITGRUB] New menu interface (implementation)

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Michal Suchanek wrote: > 2009/10/9 richardvo...@gmail.com : >>> I am suggesting an interface that allows style commands like >>> >>> style { >>> >>> (class==button).(text==OK) {

Re: [GITGRUB] New menu interface (implementation)

> I am suggesting an interface that allows style commands like > > style { > > (class==button).(text==OK) {

Re: [GITGRUB] New menu interface (implementation)

> Hi, > > I think you've overlooked a detail about grub's menu layout. The > smallest elements, text and image, both have fixed size, The largest > element, the screen, also have fixed size, therefore, we need to > adjust the middle layers to fit both ends, it's not as simple as it > seems. > > The

Re: [GITGRUB] New menu interface (implementation)

> Perhaps the naming of margin_* property is a little misleading, > perhaps I can rename them distance_* to remind it they're used as > fixed distance to borders of parent. That's undoubtedly the problem. For example, Motif uses the term "attach" to achieve fixed distance from the edge of the par

Re: [GITGRUB] New menu interface (implementation)

>>  - the border settings offer many options but I miss the option for >>   - setting the text border explicitly to single/double border >> without using an image > > I think image is most flexible, who want ascii border in graphic mode > ? BTW, border in graphic mode doesn't necessary be full char

Re: Support for howmany option in grub2

On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Robert Millan wrote: > On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 08:04:51PM +0200, j...@hkfree.org wrote: >> Hello, >> I am using Debian GNU/Linux as my primary system. As a loader I am using >> GRUB. >> Actually I have upgraded to GRUB2. I don't know, if it was feature of >> origi

Re: [PATCH] Create environment block safely

>> You might also need to check for the alternate name, in case the >> operation failed after writing the new content and unlinking the old >> file, but before renaming the new file. > > There is no old file here, or if there is then the user has already > explicitly indicated that they don't care

Re: [PATCH] Create environment block safely

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Colin Watson wrote: > If grub-editenv create is interrupted, it's theoretically possible for > it to create an incomplete block that future grub-editenv calls won't > recognise. It would be better for it to atomically create either a > complete block or nothing. An

Re: [GITGRUB] New menu interface (implementation)

On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 3:31 AM, Michal Suchanek wrote: > 2009/9/19 richardvo...@gmail.com : >> On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Michal Suchanek wrote: >>> Hello >>> >>> why does the menu system have a glyph drawing function? >>> >>> Is the

Re: [PATCH]: Save boot record before writing to the dest_drive

On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 11:10:49PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: >> I'm sorry, but I really see very limited usefulness in this.  It's only >> potentially useful to expert users, but those should know how to backup >> sectors in their disk alrea

Re: -Werror and --disable-werror

On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > Robert Millan wrote: >> Hi, >> >> -Werror is not in effect.  This will help ensuring that all new code is >> checked to be warning-free before commit (incidentally, I found a newly >> introduced bug thanks to this just minutes

Re: [GITGRUB] New menu interface (implementation)

On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Michal Suchanek wrote: > Hello > > why does the menu system have a glyph drawing function? > > Is the one in font.c not suitable? > > Why are there two methods for returning text width and height, one in > gfx_region in pixels, the other in text_region in character

Re: [PATCH] save_env variable_name=value

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 17:08 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > >> Pavel, please comment on this when you can.  It seems to me that doing it >> in grub-mkconfig would require less ad-hoc code in loadenv.mod and make it >> more efficient. > > I don't

Re: chmod of generated grub.cfg

On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Colin Watson wrote: >> On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 02:29:03PM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote: >>> Currently grub-mkconfig uses chmod 444 on the newly generated grub.cfg >>> Wouldn't it be better to use 4

Re: [PATCH] Some distributions ship compilers that include -fPIE in the default specs (Gentoo Hardened)

Why not just check if the compiler accepts -fno-PIE and use it? No harm done if -fPIE wasn't default, right? On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Magnus Granberg wrote: > Hi > > On Gentoo Hardened we compile with -fPIE in the default specs and > grub fails to compile. > This patch check if the compile

possible? load extension ROMs when BIOS doesn't (e.g. laptops)

I searched and couldn't find anything like this in the archives, apologies if this has already been discussed or is far off-topic. Many notebook computers can't boot from PCI-express expansion cards (example ExpressCard SATA controllers) for the simple reason that, although the card contains an ex