RE: grub-extras legal and technical status (was Re: ZFS imported into GRUB)

2010-12-15 Thread Nathan Coulson
>> 915resolution and ntldr-img (which is grub4dos functionality - right?) >>are under GPL3 (COPYING files in the respective repos). > Is mostly an unclean hack adapted from a standalone program by someone else > than the original author. That would be me (http://nathancoulson.com/proj_grub2_915.s

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) : > sudo mount /dev/sda3 /mnt ; su

Re: grub-extras legal and technical status (was Re: ZFS imported into GRUB)

2010-12-15 Thread Robert Millan
2010/12/15 Nathan Coulson : > That would be me (http://nathancoulson.com/proj_grub2_915.shtml). > Made a few years back, based upon the original 915resolution > (According to LICENSE.txt from 915resolution, 915resolution is in the > public domain).  Since KMS was added to the linux kernel, though,

Re: grub-cd

2010-12-15 Thread thanos migosch
not really. ive seen some things when i made my last grub disk there was sth like stage1.eltorito .. please help .. Original-Nachricht > Datum: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 10:01:05 -0500 > Von: Chris Jones > An: grub-devel@gnu.org > Betreff: Re: grub-cd > On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 05:18:

Re: grub-cd

2010-12-15 Thread thanos migosch
just because the mainboard doesn't support booting from usb. it's not that modern .. :)= what's this stage1.eltorito stuff about .. Original-Nachricht > Datum: Sat, 11 Dec 2010 11:28:52 +0300 > Von: Dmitry Ilyin > An: The development of GNU GRUB > Betreff: Re: grub-cd > 10.1

Re: grub-cd

2010-12-15 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 08:53:47AM EST, thanos migosch wrote: > not really. > ive seen some things when i made my last grub disk there was sth like > stage1.eltorito .. > please help .. Sorry, was way behind with my mail and thought I was on a debian mailing list when I wrote that for some reaso

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