grub2 boot freedos kernel.sys

2013-08-30 Thread Beeblebrox
Len & Vladimir: I just sent a repeat of the first message by mistake - please disregard. >> You are trying to make it way too complicated. DOS doesn't like complicated. I'm fine with that. I just went about it in that manner because I was not very sure how to get this done and more or less fumbl

RE: LUKS Encryption and Fingerprint readers?

2013-08-30 Thread J.Witvliet
-Original Message- From: grub-devel-bounces+j.witvliet=mindef...@gnu.org [mailto:grub-devel-bounces+j.witvliet=mindef...@gnu.org] On Behalf Of TJ Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2013 10:20 PM To: grub-devel@gnu.org Subject: Re: LUKS Encryption and Fingerprint readers? On 29/08/13 20:13, Glenn

grub2 boot root-on-zfs errors

2013-08-30 Thread Raif S. Berent
My system is FreeBSD_9.2-stable_amd64_HDD-layout=GPT grub version=grub2-2.00_1, and grub is on its own partition (/boot/grub) zpool version: 5000, with root on the zpool FreeBSD's bootloader is able to boot this pool, while various grub2 attempts have failed. I think the reason is that grub2 has pr

Re: grub2 boot freedos kernel.sys

2013-08-30 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 10:05:12AM +0300, Beeblebrox wrote: > Len & Vladimir: > > I just sent a repeat of the first message by mistake - please disregard. > > >> You are trying to make it way too complicated. DOS doesn't like > complicated. > > I'm fine with that. I just went about it in that ma

Re: LUKS Encryption and Fingerprint readers?

2013-08-30 Thread TJ
On 30/08/13 10:10, j.witvl...@mindef.nl wrote: > Some time ago i´ve been experimenting with fingerprints, and the result was > not encouraging... > From security point of view no that many problems (besides all well known > general issue´s with fingerprints). > I mean no false positive´s, but the

Re: LUKS Encryption and Fingerprint readers?

2013-08-30 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 11:10:39AM +0200, j.witvl...@mindef.nl wrote: > -Original Message- > From: grub-devel-bounces+j.witvliet=mindef...@gnu.org > [mailto:grub-devel-bounces+j.witvliet=mindef...@gnu.org] On Behalf Of TJ > Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2013 10:20 PM > To: grub-devel@gnu.org

Re: GRUB2 on OpenBSD 5.3-amd64: linking problem

2013-08-30 Thread Douglas Ray
On 23/08/13 7:31 PM, Vladimir '?-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: On 23.08.2013 11:26, Ilya Bakulin wrote: On Thursday 22 August 2013 20:16:48 Vladimir '?-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: On 21.08.2013 21:06, Vladimir '?-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: Based on your work, current WIP patch. I

Re: LUKS Encryption and Fingerprint readers?

2013-08-30 Thread Glenn Washburn
On Thu, 29 Aug 2013 21:20:14 +0100 TJ wrote: > that'd be silly so I'm now moving to whole-disc encryption with the > boot-loader, kernel, and initrd on a key-fob USB. > > I'd still like GRUB to be able to read a key-file rather than a typed > pass-phrase, and have the key-file hidden on a (secon

Re: Missing USB devices.

2013-08-30 Thread Aleš Nesrsta
Hi guys, sorry for the delay - I was too busy on business trip... Vladimir: ... I am waiting mainly for Vladimir's "Go on!" :-) I don't see any messages in mymailbox from you tagged as pending patches. Can you tell me the date and subject? Oh, sorry, maybe I missed something. (Exists/Are somew

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

2013-08-30 Thread Aleš Nesrsta
Hi, what do you mean exactly by "GRUB does not detect this device"? 1) Do you mean it is not listed by "usb" command? 2) Or do you mean it is not listed by "ls" command as disk? In the case 2) it is most probably caused by this: Such device is not mass storage class device. I.e., it probably nee

Re: grub2 boot freedos kernel.sys

2013-08-30 Thread Andrey Borzenkov
В Wed, 28 Aug 2013 12:04:31 +0300 Beeblebrox пишет: > 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