Re: grub-dumpbios

2009-10-14 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 01:45:31PM +0800, Bean wrote: > On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 4:39 AM, Robert Millan wrote: > > On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 03:57:17AM +0800, Bean wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> Perhaps we could incorporate them in grub-update/grub-install, I guess > >> there should be no harm adding two f

Re: grub-dumpbios

2009-05-05 Thread Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Peter Cros wrote: > > > On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko < > phco...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> Forgot the most important question: does it help in any way to generate a >> suitable dump within grub itself? >> > > For the user - yes,

Re: grub-dumpbios

2009-05-05 Thread Peter Cros
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko < phco...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Forgot the most important question: does it help in any way to generate a > suitable dump within grub itself? > For the user - yes, it avoids the need to use a pc-bios boot to get the dump. Or if it i

Re: grub-dumpbios

2009-05-05 Thread Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko < phco...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > ... as Stefan points out (thanks Stefan) this may not be so >> > straightforwarded. I don't think this kind of tweaking is suitable >> > for a setup that "Joe user" will get by default. >> > >> > Btw

Re: grub-dumpbios

2009-05-05 Thread Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
> ... as Stefan points out (thanks Stefan) this may not be so > > straightforwarded. I don't think this kind of tweaking is suitable > > for a setup that "Joe user" will get by default. > > > > Btw, if the video rom can be obtained directly from memory, why doesn't > > GRUB read it in runtime inst

Re: grub-dumpbios

2009-05-04 Thread Peter Cros
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Bean wrote: > Hi, > > I've documented the usage of grub-dumpbios in wiki page: > > http://grub.enbug.org/TestingOnMacbook > > The commands can be placed there as well. I personally doesn't mind, > but perhaps it would be easier for casual user to use a command > in

Re: grub-dumpbios

2009-05-04 Thread Bean
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 4:39 AM, Robert Millan wrote: > On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 03:57:17AM +0800, Bean wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Perhaps we could incorporate them in grub-update/grub-install, I guess >> there should be no harm adding two files in /boot/grub. > > Please don't.  This is really corner case;

Re: grub-dumpbios

2009-05-04 Thread step21
It is kinda documented on ubuntu-forums I think ... and maybe on the list. (here) When ppl were either asked to test it or reported their findings. I think the main use case is booting linux directly from efi, without bios emulation mode/legacy mode. This primarily applies to macs, though it might

Re: grub-dumpbios

2009-05-04 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 03:57:17AM +0800, Bean wrote: > Hi, > > Perhaps we could incorporate them in grub-update/grub-install, I guess > there should be no harm adding two files in /boot/grub. Please don't. This is really corner case; I at least wouldn't want GRUB to install non-free blobs in /

Re: grub-dumpbios

2009-05-04 Thread Stefan Reinauer
On 04.05.2009 21:27 Uhr, Robert Millan wrote: > Hi, > > Do we really need to ship a specific utility just to run two commands? > > dd if=/dev/mem of=${output_dir}vbios.bin bs=65536 skip=12 count=1 > dd if=/dev/mem of=${output_dir}int10.bin bs=4 skip=16 count=1 > > Sounds like user will need to

Re: grub-dumpbios

2009-05-04 Thread Bean
Hi, Perhaps we could incorporate them in grub-update/grub-install, I guess there should be no harm adding two files in /boot/grub. On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 3:27 AM, Robert Millan wrote: > > Hi, > > Do we really need to ship a specific utility just to run two commands? > >  dd if=/dev/mem of=${outp