On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 10:14 AM, C. P. Ghost wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> > Maybe one should use external boot media of
> > which GRUB can claim complete ownership.
> > I.e. an USB stick or a CD which hosts GRUB and
> > a custom configuration.
> > This way, G
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Maybe one should use external boot media of
> which GRUB can claim complete ownership.
> I.e. an USB stick or a CD which hosts GRUB and
> a custom configuration.
> This way, GRUB would have no shares in the
> embattled area at all.
This way
On 08/31/2010 05:36 PM, Brendan Trotter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Colin Watson wrote:
>
>> When I blogged about this recently (and rather unexpectedly ended up on
>> Slashdot), several people followed up to say that GRUB shouldn't be
>> using the embedding area because i
Hi,
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Colin Watson wrote:
> When I blogged about this recently (and rather unexpectedly ended up on
> Slashdot), several people followed up to say that GRUB shouldn't be
> using the embedding area because it was never defined to be used for
> anything in particular
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 07:15:17PM +0530, BVK Chaitanya wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Colin Watson wrote:
> > +struct embed_signature
> > +{
> > + const char *signature;
> > + int signature_len;
> > +};
>
> It seems this cannot take care of cases where signature starts at some
> byt
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Colin Watson wrote:
>
> +struct embed_signature
> +{
> + const char *signature;
> + int signature_len;
> +};
> +
It seems this cannot take care of cases where signature starts at some
byte offset in a sector, isn't it?
--
bvk.chaitanya
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 02:54:58PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> > but grub-devel is not a filesystem development list and there's
> > only so much we can fix).
>
> Maybe one should use external boot media of
> which GRUB can claim complete ownership.
Most people want the
Hi,
Colin Watson wrote:
> [...] "embedding area" [...]
> (setup): When embedding the core image in a post-MBR gap, [...]
Aka "hidden blocks" ?
> several people followed up to say that GRUB shouldn't be
> using the embedding area because it was never defined to be used for
> anything in particu
Every so often people report that booting Windows renders GRUB
unbootable. This is usually because some Windows application writes to
a sector in the "embedding area" (or boot track), so that application
and GRUB end up fighting with each other on alternate boots. I've begun
to gather information
