Re: [RFC] Support for UEFI ESP in os-prober

2012-09-30 Thread yannubu...@gmail.com
2012/9/29 Andrey Borzenkov > Attached are suggested implementation for UEFI support. Because ESP can > contain arbitrary number of boot entries, it is itself implemented as > extensible framework. > > 1. /usr/lib/os-prober/mounted/05efi > > Makes basic plausibility checks (FAT and /EFI exists) an

Re: [2.00] grub-install use on UEFI system?

2012-09-26 Thread yannubu...@gmail.com
> > 1) why does 'grub-install' (without any parameter) work for Ubuntu12.04 > > (grub1.99) ? > > Probably because your kernel doesn't handle EFI properly so grub-install > wasn't able to detect it (/sys/firmware/efi was missing). Hi Vladimir - here is an example where /sys/firmware/efi is not mi

Re: [2.00] grub-install use on UEFI system?

2012-09-25 Thread yannubu...@gmail.com
2012/9/25 Chris Murphy > > On Sep 25, 2012, at 6:17 AM, yannubu...@gmail.com wrote: > > > With 1.99, i only had to use 'grub-install' (without any parameter, and > not necessarily booted in EFI mode). > It would be nice (for retrocompatibility) if 2.00 could do th

Re: [2.00] grub-install use on UEFI system?

2012-09-25 Thread yannubu...@gmail.com
; ok thanks! Regards Yann > > Thanks, > Aaron > > > On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 6:12 PM, yannubu...@gmail.com > wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > Take a system with grub-efi 2.00 package already installed. > > How do you u

Re: --recheck option

2012-07-05 Thread yannubu...@gmail.com
2012/7/5 Jordan Uggla > On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 5:19 AM, yannubu...@gmail.com > wrote: > > Dear GRUB devs/helpers, > > > > A) Which are the situations where the --recheck option of grub-install > must > > NOT be used? why grub-install wouldn't systematical

--recheck option

2012-07-05 Thread yannubu...@gmail.com
Dear GRUB devs/helpers, A) Which are the situations where the --recheck option of grub-install must NOT be used? why grub-install wouldn't systematically probe a device map by default? B) Some people recommend to use "grub-install /dev/sdX && grub-install --recheck /dev/sdX", do you think it is c

Re: How to modify "grub-pc/install_devices" without dpkg-reconfigure

2012-05-05 Thread yannubu...@gmail.com
Le samedi 5 mai 2012, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko < phco...@gmail.com> a écrit : > On 05.05.2012 18:02, yannubu...@gmail.com wrote: >> Dear GRUB devs, >> First of all, thanks for your work. >> >> The "debconf-show grub-pc" comm

How to modify "grub-pc/install_devices" without dpkg-reconfigure

2012-05-05 Thread yannubu...@gmail.com
Dear GRUB devs, First of all, thanks for your work. The "debconf-show grub-pc" command shows a list of parameters, including "grub-pc/install_devices". Where is located the file where this "grub-pc/install_devices" parameter is located, please? (i am searching a way to modify it, not via dpkg-reco

os-prober does not detect Windows if there is a /boot folder in the Windows partition

2011-06-13 Thread yannubu...@gmail.com
Dear all, do you know if this bug has been corrected in GRUB 1.99 ? https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/796531 Regards ~Yann ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

How to check if stage1 is or is not in a MBR ?

2010-12-15 Thread yannubu...@gmail.com
Dear all, For the "Linux uninstaller" project [1], I need your help : - Is there a reliable way to check (in bash) if a functional (not altered, e.g. by another bootloader) stage1 is in a MBR ? - Or/and the contrary (stage1 is altered or not present) ? I observed that we can read (in hex) the wor

Re: How to hide an OS from os-prober ?

2010-12-15 Thread yannubu...@gmail.com
2010/12/15 yannubu...@gmail.com > Dear all, > > I did the following test : > - install Ubuntu 10.04 on my dev/sda3 , it is correctly recognized by > os-prober > - move all its files into a folder (to simulate its deletion while being > able to easily restore it) : > s

How to hide an OS from os-prober ?

2010-12-14 Thread yannubu...@gmail.com
Dear all, I did the following test : - install Ubuntu 10.04 on my dev/sda3 , it is correctly recognized by os-prober - move all its files into a folder (to simulate its deletion while being able to easily restore it) : sudo mount /dev/sda3 /mnt ; sudo mkdir /mnt/test_delete; sudo mv /mnt/* /mnt/t

Re: Linux Uninstaller + GRUB on 1st track

2010-12-07 Thread yannubu...@gmail.com
2010/12/7 Colin Watson > On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 11:20:13PM +0900, yannubu...@gmail.com wrote: > >- I observed that GRUB2 writes on the 50 first sectors of my disk, can > it > >write between the 50th and 63th sectors ? > > That depends entirely on the size of

Linux Uninstaller + GRUB on 1st track

2010-12-07 Thread yannubu...@gmail.com
Dear all, first of all thank you for your work ! - I am coding a GNU-GPL app that "Uninstals Linux", you may be interested in it : http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=10210633 - I observed that GRUB2 writes on the 50 first sectors of my disk, can it write between the 50th and 63th sectors ?