USB 1.0/1.1 devices on modern machines with only EHCI/XHCI.

2013-08-29 Thread Melki Christian (consultant)
Hi, Is there a known problem with these devices in GRUB? I have a core i7 based Dell Latitude 6430 with an integrated broadcom smart card reader. The devices looks like it is a USB 1.0/1.1 device, probably sitting behind some hub to the EHCI-controller. As far as I can tell, this machine does no

Re: GRUB_CRYPTODISK_ENABLE undocumented

2013-08-29 Thread Michael Chang
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 04:51:00PM +0200, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > On 28.08.2013 09:05, Michael Chang wrote: > > Hi Andrey, > > > > 2013/3/29 Andrey Borzenkov : > >> Is it intentional? I hit it when testing grub on encrypted partition. > >> When no, I'll submit a patch. > >

calculation overflow in grub_mm_init_region

2013-08-29 Thread Leif Lindholm
When allocating memory for the heap on ARMv7 UEFI, the init code pretty much just allocates a chunk from the top of available RAM. This means that when grub_mm_init_region is called for a region extending to the top of the 32-bit address space, addr + size == 0. However, this is not taken into acc

Re: LUKS Encryption and Fingerprint readers?

2013-08-29 Thread Glenn Washburn
On Thu, 15 Aug 2013 17:51:03 +0100 TJ wrote: > So I'd like to know what support for key-files and/or fingerprint > reading is/could be as input for LUKS unlocking? > > My other thought, to keep things simple, is to encrypt the entire > hard drive and install GRUB and the /boot/ files on the remo

Re: LUKS Encryption and Fingerprint readers?

2013-08-29 Thread TJ
On 29/08/13 20:13, Glenn Washburn wrote: > On Thu, 15 Aug 2013 17:51:03 +0100 > TJ wrote: > >> So I'd like to know what support for key-files and/or fingerprint >> reading is/could be as input for LUKS unlocking? >> >> My other thought, to keep things simple, is to encrypt the entire >> hard driv

Fwd: grub2 boot freedos kernel.sys

2013-08-29 Thread Beeblebrox
I would like to know if the following is possible: * USB thumb drive has grub-1.98 on hd(0,1) gpt layout (boot-bios is hd0,2) * hd(0,1)/boot/freedos has files autoexec.bat, command.com, config.sys, kernel.sys, sys.com Un-tarred from freedos FDOEM.144 and copied into folder * Boot into USB drive's