Re: How important is the MBR partition offset of grub-mkrescue ?

2013-11-03 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > Noce to hear from you. I am always watching here for any problems with ISOs. > LBA 0 is not an option. Thanks for confirming this (once again). It turned out that /dev/sdb1 is link target in ./by-label with any partition start LBA. Lack of brains. So the last hope is the double superb

Re: How important is the MBR partition offset of grub-mkrescue ?

2013-11-03 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
> > This yields an MBR (copied from $old_iso) with partition start > LBA 64 (16 blocks of 2048) Hm, that would mean that some crapware like adobe might write between MBR and first partition. > > My test machine boots via BIOS. The ISO image is only equipped > for BIOS, anyway. I have no means to

Re: How important is the MBR partition offset of grub-mkrescue ?

2013-11-03 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > Isn't this HFS+ catalog sufficient for the problem at hand? I see the misleading link to /dev/sdb1 with Debian 6 and with a Debian 7 based distro. Dunno which udev rule first looks at /dev/sdb for an ISO PVD and then links ./by-label to the first partition of that device. The filesystem it

Re: How important is the MBR partition offset of grub-mkrescue ?

2013-11-03 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 03.11.2013 16:21, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > >> Isn't this HFS+ catalog sufficient for the problem at hand? > > I see the misleading link to /dev/sdb1 with Debian 6 > and with a Debian 7 based distro. Dunno which udev rule > first looks at /dev/sdb for an ISO PVD and then links > ./by-label

Re: How important is the MBR partition offset of grub-mkrescue ?

2013-11-03 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > So it's bug in Debian, not in xorriso? xorriso is not at fault. It only follows orders. > It's in our git repo in util/ Yes, i know. But obviously there are older versions around. For re-tinkering the image it would be helpful to know the options used. > grub-mkrescue.c is C one. Oh. I

Re: How important is the MBR partition offset of grub-mkrescue ?

2013-11-03 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
> >> It's in our git repo in util/ > > Yes, i know. But obviously there are older versions around. > For re-tinkering the image it would be helpful to know > the options used. > You can retrieve older versions from git history. > > I just collected all xorrisofs options of > http://git.savann

Re: How important is the MBR partition offset of grub-mkrescue ?

2013-11-03 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i believe to have found the udev rules in Debian 6 which govern the population of /dev/disk/by-label. File /lib/udev/rules.d/60-persistent-storage.rules has # probe filesystem metadata of disks KERNEL!="sr*", IMPORT{program}="/sbin/blkid -o udev -p $tempnode" ... ENV{ID_FS_LABEL_ENC

Re: [RFT] Truecrypt rescue image support

2013-11-03 Thread Attila Lendvai
> @Attila: Thanks for figuring out the protocol. Do you have any problems > with that information being used in that way? you're welcome and thanks for taking care of it! yes, please feel free to use whatever i've provided for grub for the benefit of humanity! :) i don't have physical access to

Re: [PATCH]: Add GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU option

2013-11-03 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
I've committed a patch introducing the same option but more compact and accepting GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU=n On 29.01.2013 20:23, Prarit Bhargava wrote: > I'm not sure what the proper patch posting protocol is on this list and > I've never used bzr before. If this is incorrect, please email me and let

Re: New command to check NT's hibernation state

2013-11-03 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Going through e-mail archives found this one, looks like it got forgotten. Fixed problems with it and simplified greatly and committed. On 18.12.2011 04:16, Peter Lustig wrote: > On 17.12.2011 00:41, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > >> /* nthibr.c - tests whether an MS Windows system partiti

Re: [grub-devel] loongson-2f mini-pc (fuloong) elf image generation.

2013-11-03 Thread Javier Vasquez
On 11/1/13, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > On 01.11.2013 22:26, Aleš Nesrsta wrote: >> >> >> Dne 29.10.2013 19:46, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko napsal(a): >>> On 29.10.2013 19:35, Aleš Nesrsta wrote: Only short note below... Dne 27.10.2013 23:43, Vladimir 'φ

Re: [grub-devel] loongson-2f mini-pc (fuloong) elf image generation.

2013-11-03 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 04.11.2013 02:10, Javier Vasquez wrote: > On 11/1/13, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: >> On 01.11.2013 22:26, Aleš Nesrsta wrote: >>> >>> >>> Dne 29.10.2013 19:46, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko napsal(a): On 29.10.2013 19:35, Aleš Nesrsta wrote: > Only short note b

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Allow hotkeys to interrupt hidden menu

2013-11-03 Thread Yang Bai
Ping. Any updates? On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Franz Hsieh wrote: > Hi Vladimir, > I don't know if l lose any update from you. Would you give me comments > about > the latest hotkey patch? > > Summary of the patch: > * allow function keys / delete / backspace to interrupt sleep and s

Re: [PATCH] enable emuusb and emupci on emu platform only

2013-11-03 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Go ahead. I mistagged this one in my inbox and hence missed it, sorry for this On 25.07.2013 19:06, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > В Thu, 25 Jul 2013 16:44:08 +0200 > Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko пишет: > >> On 21.07.2013 08:53, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: >>> Is there any reason we may want to b

Re: New command to check NT's hibernation state

2013-11-03 Thread Peter Lustig
Thanks for the update. I'm glad to hear it made the cut. On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 7:49 PM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko < phco...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Original Message > Subject: Re: New command to check NT's hibernation state > Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 01:48:51 +010

Re: grub2 boot root-on-zfs errors

2013-11-03 Thread Beeblebrox
>> /usr/include/machine/_types.h:65: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' >> or '__attribute__' before '__double_t' >> /usr/include/machine/_types.h:66: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' >> or '__attribute__' before '__float_t' >You system headers do something stupid: they use float/double in >s