Re: Multiboot ELF segment handling patch

2018-04-26 Thread Alexander Boettcher
On 24.04.2018 12:42, Daniel Kiper wrote: > On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 08:26:34PM +0200, Alexander Boettcher wrote: >> On 17.04.2018 21:40, Daniel Kiper wrote The overriden memory may contain device memory (vga text mode e.g.), which leads to strange boot behaviour. >>> >>> Have you been able

Re: grub-mkconfig does not fsync() or sync() - can result in boot failure

2018-04-26 Thread Daniel Kiper
On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 08:48:05PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > Hi, > > I've done a 'UB's docs then it would be perfect. -ff -o stracegrub.out > grub-mkconfig' and there is no > fsync() or sync() at all, so this does not seem crash safe for either > non-journaled or journaled file systems. > > The

Re: What is this grub_disk_read doing in the i386 linux loader?

2018-04-26 Thread Daniel Kiper
On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 12:45:15PM -0700, Andrew Jeddeloh wrote: > > As Michael said, "0x0202 + byte value at offset 0x0201" is your friend. > > I think Michael's message got lost; I think he replied to just you? I > didn't receive it and I don't see it in the archives. > > > AIUI it is. Please loo

Re: [PATCH] pass kernel command line as verbatim

2018-04-26 Thread Michael Chang
On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 12:03:21PM +0200, Daniel Kiper wrote: > On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 03:07:15PM +0800, Michael Chang wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 06:37:06PM +0200, Daniel Kiper wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 05:17:03PM +0800, Michael Chang wrote: > > > > And this bug report seems rel