grub-install hidden options weirdness

2014-06-25 Thread Phillip Susi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A user complained that grub-install has some undocumented options such as --root-directory. I started looking into it and noticed a lot of weirdness here. 1) It seems that --root-directory used to just be used to find the boot directory by appending

Re: grub-install hidden options weirdness

2014-06-25 Thread Andrey Borzenkov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 В Wed, 25 Jun 2014 10:13:59 -0400 Phillip Susi пишет: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > A user complained that grub-install has some undocumented options such > as --root-directory. I started looking into it and noticed a lot of

Re: PXE-Grub has no menu - File not found

2014-06-25 Thread Andrey Borzenkov
В Tue, 24 Jun 2014 18:19:00 +0300 Beeblebrox пишет: > Is it possible my findings below show that PXE booting on grub2 (trunk) > when compiled and running on FreeBSD is broken? > > * When isc-dhcpd.conf has "grub/i386-pc/core.0" as filename, wireshark > shows abort due to "file not found: grub/

Re: grub-install hidden options weirdness

2014-06-25 Thread Phillip Susi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6/25/2014 1:33 PM, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > This could be considered as endorsement to continue to use it ... > No, saying "dont' use this because it is depreciated" is exactly the opposite endorsing its continued use. >> 2) It seems that --root

Re: grub-install hidden options weirdness

2014-06-25 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 25.06.2014 23:44, Phillip Susi wrote: > On 6/25/2014 1:33 PM, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: >> This could be considered as endorsement to continue to use it ... > > No, saying "dont' use this because it is depreciated" is exactly the > opposite endorsing its continued use. > People ignore "don't"s.

GRUB 2 document

2014-06-25 Thread Wenwei Weng
hello, I'm new to GRUB 2, try to find some GRUB 2 design document to understand GRUB 2 source code structure and running context. Any pointer? Thanks. Wenwei ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: GRUB 2 document

2014-06-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 03:28:57PM -0700, Wenwei Weng wrote: > hello, I'm new to GRUB 2, try to find some GRUB 2 design document to > understand GRUB 2 source code structure and running context. Any pointer? > Thanks. Wenwei docs/grub-dev.texi in the source tree (built into docs/grub-dev.info) is