Re: btrfs trim erases bootloader area

2016-01-07 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hey. Just a followup on this: GPT and some others (e.g MD RAID) store data in the end of the device. It's clear that when the fs is made inside a partition, this shouldn't be seen (and thus TRIMmed) anyway... but can btrfs be installed e.g. directly on the device while that continues to hold the

Debian should register a namespace at the EFI System Partition Subdirectory Registry

2013-07-20 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi folks. I think it cannot harm (although the whole thing is anyway just voluntary), that GRUB registers it's name at the "EFI System Partition Subdirectory Registry": http://www.uefi.org/specs/esp_registry I guess that probably needs to be done by some officially authorised GRUB person...

GRUB should register a namespace at the EFI System Partition Subdirectory Registry

2013-07-20 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi folks. I think it cannot harm (although the whole thing is anyway just voluntary), that GRUB registers it's name at the "EFI System Partition Subdirectory Registry": http://www.uefi.org/specs/esp_registry I guess that probably needs to be done by some officially authorised GRUB person... Ch

Re: GRUB1 on USB-Stick

2008-01-31 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 12:01 +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > If you're not sure, why don't you try it? ;) anyway... there's still the missing password protection :-P When will this be added to grub2? Chris. ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org

Re: GRUB1 on USB-Stick

2008-01-31 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 10:51 +0100, Marco Gerards wrote: > This list is about the development of GRUB 2. Better send an email to > bug-grub. Uhm,.. ok,.. then another question. Is GRUB2 already considered to be stable, an when will we get the missing features (like the password keyword, and manpage

GRUB1 on USB-Stick

2008-01-31 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hello. I've just tried to install grub1 on an USB-stick in order to boot from it, but it continues to fail: Following situation: -BIOS is definitely able to boot from USB -the system has one harddisk /dev/sda -USB-stick has one partition /dev/sdb1, type 0x83, filesystem ext3 -Debian sid => grub 0