HP laptop crashes (not booting any more) after fixing uefi variables

2011-03-16 Thread George Buranov
Hello everybody. I have a question, that does not deal directly with grub2, however I found this issue when investigating grub2 for UEFI. I noticed that when I change/add new UEFI boot variables (both Boot and BootOrder), after the change the system becomes unbootable. Unbootable means re

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

2010-02-16 Thread George Buranov
Hello, I just found another computer with working UEFI (I was testing on UEFI simulation) and just found that the kernel load does not work. I found out that the problem is in code /* Next, find free pages for the protected mode code. */ /* XXX what happens if anything is using this address?

[patch] search for partition using GPT GUID

2010-02-12 Thread George Buranov
Hello everybody. I have just implemented support for GPT GUID search and I am really interested in providing this patch for integration.Who is in chief here, we can discuss details =) Patch is included. The syntax is now the following # Entry 1 - Chainload another bootloader menuentry "Chainload

[patch] GRUB possible patches

2010-02-11 Thread George Buranov
Hello eveybody. I am currently start investigation (and fixing the things that don't work for me =)) So, I got two for today, one is fix, and one is morelike a question, I am more than sure it's my mistake. What's the correct way of applying patches to grub2? Am I correct that all I need is to p

UEFI. Running grub only once functionality

2010-02-03 Thread George Buranov
Hello everybody. <#inbox> I got situation: I need to load linux kernel from grub, that can easily fail on some computers (even in production). I use grub to load this and the only this kernel. So, what I want to do is to load another OS loader, if grub (or more specificly my kernel) fails. I know

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

2010-02-01 Thread George Buranov
Hm hm that sounds very interesing. Can you please send me your compiled EFI file? I will test it on my UEFI. If it work than it's the problem of my compilation, if not then it's the problem of my UEFI implementation Regards, Georgy > > I tested with 64-bit qemu-tianocore actually, and in this ca

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

2010-02-01 Thread George Buranov
> > > > > It works on tianocore. > > Arne > > > yes, if you are talking about 32-bit emulation of UEFI, created by Tianocore, then yes =) Regards, Georgy > > > > ___ > > Grub-devel mailing list > > Grub-devel@gnu.org > > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/l