Re: grub2+qemu El Torito boot

2006-07-31 Thread adrian15
Hi, I've written a script that might be interesting to those who would like to test GRUB2 in qemu without any use of root privileges. I am one of this. Thank you. This is a two-stage approach that uses GRUB Legacy to load GRUB2 from a CD image, which GRUB2 then uses as a hard drive (whole devi

Re: porting to hppa-ipl

2006-07-31 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Sunday 30 July 2006 19:29, Jeff Bailey wrote: > set -e; gcc -Ihello -I./hello -I. -Iinclude -I./include -Wall -W > -Wall -W -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith -Wmissing-prototypes > -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -g -Os -fno-builtin -M hello/hello.c | > sed 's,hello\.o[ :]*,h

Re: OS Choice password protection?

2006-07-31 Thread Mark Knecht
Found the answer. All solved by using the password operator withing the specific OS selection I wanted to restrict. Thanks for all the good work on grub. Cheers & out, Mark On 7/30/06, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, First post here. I'm just a user who hasn't found a solution to

Re: porting to hppa-ipl

2006-07-31 Thread Jeff Bailey
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 07:46:37PM +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > On Sunday 30 July 2006 19:29, Jeff Bailey wrote: > > set -e; gcc -Ihello -I./hello -I. -Iinclude -I./include -Wall -W > > -Wall -W -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith -Wmissing-prototypes > > -Wundef -Wstrict-prot

Re: Support for RAID in grub-setup

2006-07-31 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
At Sat, 29 Jul 2006 13:21:47 +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > > On Friday 28 July 2006 01:13, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > It would be possible to calculate how to write the image to the file > > so it ends up being a consecutive image on the physical disk. But I > > think it's not worth the troubl

static configuration flag

2006-07-31 Thread Sven Jaborek
Hello grub devels, i've got a question about grubs role in the security of a computer boot up. I recently learned that i can gather root-previlidges without a root password on allmost every linux default installation out there. Just pressing e and edit the kernel commands and add init=/bin/bash.

Re: static configuration flag

2006-07-31 Thread Hollis Blanchard
On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 00:54 +0200, Sven Jaborek wrote: [...] > Then i would expect grub to have one or two features that i could not > find yet. > I call the first one "static configuration flag", the config should have > a flag that makes grubs menu static. I can boot all the systems with the > op