Re: Disable grub2 from writing to HDD

2010-03-31 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Casey McGinty wrote: > Thanks, I looked at it. But making the change you suggest is not > clear. I only see where timeout is set to -1. How do you specify a > boot target in this case? default="" timeout= > Anyway, I think i'm set with the first suggestion. > > 2010/3/31 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder'

Re: Disable grub2 from writing to HDD

2010-03-31 Thread Casey McGinty
Thanks, I looked at it. But making the change you suggest is not clear. I only see where timeout is set to -1. How do you specify a boot target in this case? Anyway, I think i'm set with the first suggestion. 2010/3/31 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko > Casey McGinty wrote: > > Allas, the d

Re: Disable grub2 from writing to HDD

2010-03-31 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Casey McGinty wrote: > Allas, the data being written is "recordfail", which causes problems > on a headless system. > recordfail main use is exactly the headless system. Just default ubuntu on boot failure shows the menu but on headless you should make it point to surely working kernel. Have a look

Re: Disable grub2 from writing to HDD

2010-03-31 Thread Casey McGinty
Allas, the data being written is "recordfail", which causes problems on a headless system. 2010/3/31 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko > Casey McGinty wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm running a flash-based system w/ grub2. I do not want grub2 writing > > to my boot partition? How can I prevent the

Re: Disable grub2 from writing to HDD

2010-03-31 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Casey McGinty wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running a flash-based system w/ grub2. I do not want grub2 writing > to my boot partition? How can I prevent the grubenv file from being > written in any (and all) cases? Just remove grubenv file. But I doubt a single (at most) write per boot would wear your flash

Disable grub2 from writing to HDD

2010-03-31 Thread Casey McGinty
Hi, I'm running a flash-based system w/ grub2. I do not want grub2 writing to my boot partition? How can I prevent the grubenv file from being written in any (and all) cases? Thank you. Casey McGinty ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http:/

New build system for GRUB

2010-03-31 Thread BVK Chaitanya
Hi, New automake based build system for GRUB is now available in branches/automake branch. Build system now has new dependency on GNU Automake and GNU Autogen. Autogen is used to convert a modules.def definitions file into an automake makefile (modules.am) which is included by Makefile.am This