2009/8/29 Bean :
> On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Michal Suchanek wrote:
>> 2009/8/29 Bean :
>>> On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Vladimir 'phcoder'
>>> Serbinenko wrote:
> Actually, I think the correct handling is to first bless a boot
> directory (storing the directory id in header), th
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> 2009/8/29 Bean :
>> On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Vladimir 'phcoder'
>> Serbinenko wrote:
Actually, I think the correct handling is to first bless a boot
directory (storing the directory id in header), then bless a boot file
>>>
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> 2009/8/29 Bean :
>> On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Vladimir 'phcoder'
>> Serbinenko wrote:
Actually, I think the correct handling is to first bless a boot
directory (storing the directory id in header), then bless a boot file
>>>
> Hi,
>
> After more testing, I believe the booting process works like this:
>
> One important difference between openfirmware and efi is that
> openfirmware stores file path in nvram, while efi stores device path.
> The default boot file for openfirmware is like this:
>
> device:\\+tbxi
>
> Which
2009/8/29 Bean :
> On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Vladimir 'phcoder'
> Serbinenko wrote:
>>> Actually, I think the correct handling is to first bless a boot
>>> directory (storing the directory id in header), then bless a boot file
>>> (add +tbxi attribute), that's why the bless command in OSX ne
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Vladimir 'phcoder'
Serbinenko wrote:
>> Actually, I think the correct handling is to first bless a boot
>> directory (storing the directory id in header), then bless a boot file
>> (add +tbxi attribute), that's why the bless command in OSX needs needs
>> both --fold
>> Wouldn't it be reasonable to bless both the file and the directory?
>
> Hi,
>
> Actually, I think the correct handling is to first bless a boot
> directory (storing the directory id in header), then bless a boot file
> (add +tbxi attribute), that's why the bless command in OSX needs needs
> both
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 6:59 AM, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> Hello
>
> the bless command is nice.
>
> 2009/4/19 Vladimir Serbinenko :
>> Thank you for the testing and info.
>>>
>>> Redundant info -
>>> I checked the OSX bless utility, it requires both folder and file, or it
>>> will not agree to bless
Hello
the bless command is nice.
2009/4/19 Vladimir Serbinenko :
> Thank you for the testing and info.
>>
>> Redundant info -
>> I checked the OSX bless utility, it requires both folder and file, or it
>> will not agree to bless the file.
>
> I'm nearly sure now that folder blessing (+tbxi attrib
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 01:53:18PM +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Peter Cros wrote:
>>
>> > Hi again,
>> >
>> > Could the hfspbless patch be updated and hopefully committted to provide
>> > the
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 01:53:18PM +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Peter Cros wrote:
>
> > Hi again,
> >
> > Could the hfspbless patch be updated and hopefully committted to provide
> > the hfspbless module as standard in grub2.
> >
> Attached to th
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 13:53 +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
>
> > Attached to this e-mail and on my personal git repository in branch
> > bless the rediff. I was thinking of adding ppc mac support but haven't
> > done it yet I th
On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 13:53 +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> Attached to this e-mail and on my personal git repository in branch
> bless the rediff. I was thinking of adding ppc mac support but haven't
> done it yet I think we can incorporate apple intel support without the
> ppc cou
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Peter Cros wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> Could the hfspbless patch be updated and hopefully committted to provide
> the hfspbless module as standard in grub2.
>
Attached to this e-mail and on my personal git repository in branch bless
the rediff. I was thinking of addin
Hi again,
Could the hfspbless patch be updated and hopefully committted to provide the
hfspbless module as standard in grub2.
It is valuable to enable auto-booting grub.efi installation on Apple Intel
Mac efi and also where Mac OSX/refit is not installed. Potentially for
automated grub.efi instal
My reply was delayed by network going down.
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 9:52 PM, Vladimir Serbinenko wrote:
>
>
>>
> The bootable cd can have both eltorito (bios) and grub2.efi
>
I like the grub.efi CD.
> But what happens if you do something like:
> blessed folder -> /test1 contains boot.efi
> ble
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Peter Cros wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 6:05 AM, Vladimir Serbinenko wrote:
>
>> Hello
>>
>>>
>>> You can use the bootable CD of your favourite distro. I hope that
>> grub2.efi will become a default bootloader to install on efi system for
>> major lin
Hi,
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 6:05 AM, Vladimir Serbinenko wrote:
> Hello
>
>>
>> You can use the bootable CD of your favourite distro. I hope that
> grub2.efi will become a default bootloader to install on efi system for
> major linux distributions
>
The thought was just to avoid dependance on th
Hello
> Do you mean run grub-emu as part of a linux installation to bless grub.ef?
> It seems to leave the problem of booting the linux installer, which is easy
> to do from grub.efi - if it is blessed.
> At present we install grub.efi manually, using only grub-mkimage to build
> grub.efi, without
Thanks that is going to be very useful.
Just some further comment from the little I know -
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:14 AM, Vladimir Serbinenko wrote:
>
>>
>
Now the question is how we do it. We can either keep the current syntax or
> IMO it's better to have two commands:
> intelmacbless and pp
Thank you for the testing and info.
>
> Redundant info -
> I checked the OSX bless utility, it requires both folder and file, or it
> will not agree to bless the file.
>
I'm nearly sure now that folder blessing (+tbxi attribute) is used on ppc
macs and file blessing on intel macs. Now the questio
bless.diff version 2.
success.
cleared all bless on hfsplus partition in OSX.
grub> hfspbless (hd0,3)/efi/test/grub523.efi
Back to OSX -
Last login: Sun Apr 19 22:48:43 on console
im81:~ pxw$ bless --info /Volumes/hfsp
finderinfo[0]: 75 => Blessed System Folder is
finderinfo[1]: 7857 =>
I'd also like to help test this as I have a first gen macintel mac pro
that needs to run centos. It was difficult to get a 2nd gen machine to
see the os drive last time I loaded centos...
---
Drew Rosen
On Apr 19, 2009, at 3:50 AM, Vladimir Serbinenko
wrote:
Hello, thank you for the tes
Hello, thank you for the testing. Two concepts together (system folder and
system file) are clearly redundant. I thought that intel macs look which
folder is blessed and load boot.efi file from this directory. Here I attach
a patch which updates finderinfo[0] when argument is a directory and
finder
Hi,
Tested and works on Apple imac81 with Mac OSX 10.5, patch applied to r 2074
grub> hfspbless (hd0,3)/efi
Last login: Sun Apr 19 14:30:23 on console
im81:~ pxw$ bless --info /Volumes/hfsp
finderinfo[0]: 52 => Blessed System Folder is /Volumes/hfsp/efi
finderinfo[1]: 0 => No Blessed Sy
Vladimir Serbinenko wrote:
> Syntax:
> hfspbless
> It works only on HFS+ volumes.
Could it be named 'hfsplusbless' (or possibly 'hfs+bless') (I guess our
current naming style involves no underscores or other word-separation)? For
example, Linux `mount` calls the filesystem `hfsplus`, and I lik
Sorry, forgot to attach the file
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Vladimir Serbinenko wrote:
> Hello, due to request by ams I wrote this. It's an analog of "bless"
> command available under OSX rewritten using grub2 fs functions and according
> to apple specification of hfs+ on-disk format. This
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