bash completions in GRUB

2019-01-10 Thread Bruce Dubbs
arget date? The last release was April 2017. -- Bruce Dubbs linuxfromscratch.org ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

GRUB version numbering.

2019-03-26 Thread Bruce Dubbs
t two 'stable' releases a week. That is hardly 'stable'. For a package like GRUB, a release every six months on a schedule would be ideal, but that may not be best for this package. In any case, I appreciate and consideration you may give to this proposal. -- Bruce Dubbs

Re: GRUB 2.04 RC01 released

2019-04-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs
ness: 'int' and 'unsigned int' [-Wsign-compare] for (i = 0; i < keylen; i++) I have one question. When do you expect to release the stable grub-2.04 version of GRUB? -- Bruce Dubbs linuxfromscratch.org ___ Grub-devel

Re: gcc9.1 and f2fs

2019-05-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs
On 5/6/19 12:15 PM, Neil MacLeod wrote: With the latest grub HEAD (620857c4dccb8f0548cdb855f6b2f46ebea3919e) I'm getting the following compilation error with gcc-9.1: /home/ubuntu/projects/LibreELEC.tv/build.LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-9.1-devel/toolchain/bin/x86_64-libreelec-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_C

Re: gcc9.1 and f2fs

2019-05-17 Thread Bruce Dubbs
On 5/17/19 2:13 AM, Michael Chang wrote: Hello John, Except for lacking commit message and SOB, the fix is LGTM. [snip] --- grub-core/fs/f2fs.c | 10 ++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/grub-core/fs/f2fs.c b/grub-core/fs/f2fs.c index 1cad2615f..0dd09bc23 100644 --- a

Re: [PATCH v2 08/12] kern: Make grub_error() more verbose

2020-03-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs
On 3/6/20 11:03 AM, David Michael wrote: On Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 9:02 AM Didier Spaier wrote: Le 06/03/2020 à 13:43, Daniel Kiper a écrit : If we go that way then we have to care about them by the end of the universe. And this means more and more issues like [1]. If somebody wants to use new GR

GRUB release schedule?

2020-10-25 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Is there a release schedule for the next stable version of GRUB? It would help for planning purposes. -- Bruce LFS ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: [SECURITY PATCH 000/117] Multiple GRUB2 vulnerabilities - 2021/03/02 round

2021-03-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
On 3/2/21 1:37 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hi Daniel! On 3/2/21 7:00 PM, Daniel Kiper wrote: The BootHole vulnerability [1][2] announced last year encouraged many people to take a closer look at the security of boot process in general and the GRUB bootloader in particular. Due to that,

Re: GRUB 2.06~rc1 released

2021-03-12 Thread Bruce Dubbs
On 3/12/21 1:57 PM, Daniel Kiper wrote: Hi all, The GRUB maintainers are proud to announce the GRUB 2.06~rc1 that has been just released. Congratulations. For LFS, we do a very simple build in a sparse environment. Here are a few observations. We use: ./configure --prefix=/usr \

Re: GRUB 2.06~rc1 released

2021-03-12 Thread Bruce Dubbs
On 3/12/21 5:25 PM, Glenn Washburn wrote: Hi Bruce, On Fri, 12 Mar 2021 15:30:01 -0600 Bruce Dubbs wrote: On 3/12/21 1:57 PM, Daniel Kiper wrote: Hi all, The GRUB maintainers are proud to announce the GRUB 2.06~rc1 that has been just released. Congratulations. For LFS, we do a very

Re: GRUB 2.06~rc1 released

2021-03-13 Thread Bruce Dubbs
On 3/12/21 5:48 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: On 3/12/21 5:25 PM, Glenn Washburn wrote: Hi Bruce, On Fri, 12 Mar 2021 15:30:01 -0600 Bruce Dubbs wrote: On 3/12/21 1:57 PM, Daniel Kiper wrote: [snip] For LFS, we do a very simple build in a sparse environment.  Here are a few observations. We

Re: GRUB 2.06

2021-04-20 Thread Bruce Dubbs
On 4/20/21 12:50 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 1:34 PM Didier Spaier wrote: So, it's hard to understand for many end users that: 1. The issue appeared after gcc-10 began to be used, well after the release of grub 2.04. 2. It has been fixed long ago. 3. But for the fix to be e

Re: [PATCH 2/2] autogen.sh: Detect python

2021-08-18 Thread Bruce Dubbs
On 8/18/21 1:19 AM, Petr Vorel wrote: On Mon, Aug 09, 2021 at 01:52:29PM +0200, Daniel Kiper wrote: On Fri, Aug 06, 2021 at 08:45:08AM +0200, Petr Vorel wrote: It help to avoid error on distros which has only python3 binary: ./autogen.sh: line 20: python: command not found Using bash builtin

Re: GRUB release schedule?

2015-07-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
;release progression were decided upon and followed. I agree. -- Bruce Dubbs linuxfromscratch.org ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: GRUB release schedule?

2015-08-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
pped in the tarball hold up a release. Perfect is the enemy of good enough. -- Bruce Dubbs linuxfromscratch.org ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: Fwd: RE: GRUB release schedule?

2016-02-22 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Any progress on this? Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: -- Message transféré -- De : "Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko" Date : 4 janv. 2016 10:40 PM Objet : RE: GRUB release schedule? À : "Elliott, Robert (Persistent Memory)" Cc : I'm currently running tests in order to make

Re: Bugs and tasks for 2.02[~rc1]

2016-04-12 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: Hello, all. I went through the list of bugs and created a shortlist of bugs that need to be looked at for 2.02. I have marked them with plan_release_id set to 2.02. [snip] I would like to come up with a complete list of 2.02 blockers in one week time, so t

Grub 2.02

2017-02-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Is there an estimated time frame for the release of the stable 2.02 version of grub? The Linux From Scratch project is planning a new release around March 1st and would really like to update to a grub stable release. -- Bruce Dubbs linuxfromscratch.org

Re: grub2-common: grub.cfg gains wrong root settings for multi-OS system

2017-04-23 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Andrei Borzenkov wrote: 23.04.2017 08:43, Ralph Ronnquist пишет: For all installs, I made it mount /dev/sda1 at /boot but only the first install formatted it. Shared /boot never worked reliably. With or without grub. Sorry. It works perfectly if you don't use grub-mkconfig. For those using

grub-1.97

2009-10-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
read the code and contribute to the project. -- Bruce Dubbs linuxfromscratch.org ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: grub-1.97

2009-10-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Colin Watson wrote: On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 08:59:15PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I do have a question. After building a package, we like to test it for those packages that have tests built in. When I tried `make test`, I got an error about missing m2c. I then went to the Debian repository

Re: grub-1.97

2009-10-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Michal Suchanek wrote: 2009/10/28 Bruce Dubbs : I'd also like to make a comment. It may be useful if you split up the build into subdirectories by component. When I extracted the tarball, there were 57 files/directories in the top of the build tree. After configure it was 64. So f

Re: grub-1.97

2009-10-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Felix Zielcke wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 28.10.2009, 11:02 -0500 schrieb Bruce Dubbs: Since there is only one Makefile, I could take a shot at creating a patch to address this problem. Would you be interested in such a patch? That's wrong that there is just one Makefile. Well it's

Re: grub-1.97

2009-10-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs
richardvo...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Michal Suchanek wrote: I guess it's meant to be used like this: tar -jxvf grub-version.tar.bz2 cd grub-version mkdir build cd build ../configure./configure --prefix=/usr \ --sysconfdir

Customization of GRUB2

2009-12-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I am trying to provide documentation about GRUB2 (1.97.1) customization for the Linux From Scratch book. I am having quite a bit of trouble finding anything describing how to set up a splash screen directly in grub.cfg. I've looked in info, faqs, the GRUB2 wiki, and google. I do find refere

Re: Customization of GRUB2

2009-12-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote: I am trying to provide documentation about GRUB2 (1.97.1) customization for the Linux From Scratch book. I am having quite a bit of trouble finding anything describing how to set up a splash screen directly in grub.cfg

Re: Customization of GRUB2

2009-12-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote: Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: Could you help us with documenting grub better? Patches against texinfo manual are welcome I may be able to do that, however, I need to learn it myse

grub.info

2009-12-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Bruce Dubbs wrote: Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: Could you help us with documenting grub better? Patches against texinfo manual are welcome I may be able to do that, however, I need to learn it myself. I took a look at grub.texi. Although I haven't written

Miscellaneous file cleanup

2009-12-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
As a first attempt at an update, I am attaching a minor change to Makefile.in to remove left over files in docs when making distclean. -- Bruce === modified file 'ChangeLog' --- ChangeLog 2009-11-30 01:25:57 + +++ ChangeLog 2009-12-04 23:59:11 + @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2009-12

Documenting the GRUB configure (during build)

2009-12-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I want to submit an update to the INSTALL file. In looking at ./configure, it does some guessing. We have: `--enable-efiemu' Build and install the efiemu runtimes (default=guessed) `--enable-grub-emu' Build and install the `grub-emu' debugging utility (default=guessed) `--enable-gr

Re: Miscellaneous file cleanup

2009-12-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Robert Millan wrote: On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 06:05:37PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: + docs/{grub.info,version.texi,stamp-vti} This seems bash-specific. Have you tested it with another shell? No I didn't. Sorry about that. Try this patch. -- Bruce === modified file 'M

Re: Documenting the GRUB configure (during build)

2009-12-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Robert Millan wrote: On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 07:46:24PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I want to submit an update to the INSTALL file. In looking at ./configure, it does some guessing. We have: Note that we don't need to document all configure flags, only the ones that are set in stone

Re: meaning of absent --users prameters.

2009-12-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: Hello. Currently authentication system works as following: menuentry "name" --users "a,b,c" { } Means that only superusers and users "a", "b" and "c" are permitted to boot this menuentry. To allow only superusers to boot an entry one would need: menue

Re: meaning of absent --users prameters.

2009-12-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote: Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: Hello. Currently authentication system works as following: menuentry "name" --users "a,b,c" { } Means that only superusers and users &qu

Re: meaning of absent --users prameters.

2009-12-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: Actually the real question is about interpretation of missing --users. Actually your suggestion --users superusers has a problem that user "superusers" may actually exist. BTW: menuentry "name" --users $superusers { is already accepted OK. Sorry fo

autogen.sh warnings

2009-12-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs
lib/libgcrypt-grub/ directory should be released and the lib/libgcrypt/ should probably be suppressed to avoid dependence on ruby for non-developers. === added file 'ABOUT-NLS' === modified file 'ChangeLog' --- ChangeLog 2009-12-06 09:20:01 + +++ ChangeLog 2009-12-07

Re: autogen.sh warnings

2009-12-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: Thanks. I'll let someone more familiar with automake to review automake parts. Just a comment to import_gcry These are generated by util/import_gcry.py by copying (and in some cases modifying) the files in lib/libgcrypt to lib/libgcrypt-grub. It al

Re: autogen.sh warnings

2009-12-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Colin Watson wrote: On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 11:38:06AM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: configure.ac:176: required file `./config.rpath' not found The can be fixed by `touch config.rpath` configure does actually run this, so I'd recommend copying the file from gettext or gnulib inst

Re: autogen.sh warnings

2009-12-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I've been looking at autogen.sh some more. Does anyone know why the lines: # FIXME: automake doesn't like that there's no Makefile.am automake -a -c -f || true are present at all? Since there is no Makefile.am, it looks like automake only creates a few files and aborts. Doing an experiment,

Re: autogen.sh warnings

2009-12-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote: I'm not sure GRUB uses or needs the output of config.rpath. I was just suppressing a warning. Just suppressing warning is a wrong approach. If warning is there it usually means there is a reason for it. And the r

Re: autogen.sh warnings

2009-12-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Colin Watson wrote: On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 02:28:19PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Colin Watson wrote: It is very likely to be incorrect to suppress a warning about a missing executable by touching an empty file. As I said, configure does use the output of config.rpath. You can verify this

Re: autogen.sh warnings

2009-12-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: Why can't Makefile.in moved to Makefile.am and then just let automake mostly copy Makefile.am to Makefile.in ? (I'm automake newbie), just an idea I've been invoking automake for years, but not writing for it. I'll volunteer to try to make a prope

Re: Building system (Re: autogen.sh warnings)

2009-12-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: Colin Watson wrote: I wouldn't recommend it. The syntax looks similar, but there are some slight differences, and Automake has its own ideas of what rules and variables you are and aren't allowed to override. Besides, there's quite a lot of stuff that

Re: autogen.sh warnings

2009-12-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Robert Millan wrote: On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 07:21:28PM +, Colin Watson wrote: On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 11:38:06AM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: configure.ac:176: required file `./config.rpath' not found The can be fixed by `touch config.rpath` configure does actually run this, s

Re: autogen.sh warnings

2009-12-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Felix Zielcke wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 09.12.2009, 16:19 -0600 schrieb Bruce Dubbs: config.guess, config.sub, missing, mkinstalldirs, and install-sh are only copied from /usr/share/automake- as a part of automake. AFAICT, they are not used in GRUB. I'm pretty sure they are the same on

Re: autogen.sh warnings

2009-12-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Felix Zielcke wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 09.12.2009, 17:28 -0600 schrieb Bruce Dubbs: Felix Zielcke wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 09.12.2009, 16:19 -0600 schrieb Bruce Dubbs: config.guess and config.sub are used by configure. Called yes, and it will give errors if not present, but is the output

Re: autogen.sh warnings

2009-12-10 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Felix Zielcke wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 10.12.2009, 00:05 -0600 schrieb Bruce Dubbs: On the other hand, config.guess is used to get build_cpu and build_os and I don't see that being used at all right now by grub. Well just after the part you quoted from me, I thought I made it clear tha

Re: Documenting the GRUB configure (during build)

2009-12-10 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Robert Millan wrote: On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 03:42:24PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I'm afraid I don't agree that the solution to documenting changes is not to document anything. That may be a little harsh, but I firmly believe that documentation is key to acceptance. It'

Understanding GRUB details

2009-12-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs
In order to properly document GRUB, I have been reviewing some of the code at a rather detailed level. My efforts are directed at developing an intimate level of understanding as a prerequisite for the documentation effort. I fully understand that many of the details below are not appropriate

Re: Does grub support "nfsroot" linux kernel command line?

2009-12-16 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Nancy wrote: Hi, Does grub support "nfsroot" linux kernel command line? grub> kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32 nfsroot=10.2.0.15:/nfsroot/rootfs rw grub> boot ... kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(104,1) I believe that is a kernel or initrd issue an

Re: Understanding GRUB details

2009-12-20 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote: In order to properly document GRUB, I have been reviewing some of the code at a rather detailed level. My efforts are directed at developing an intimate level of understanding as a prerequisite for the documentation

Re: gettext: commands/*

2009-12-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Colin Watson wrote: On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 01:16:04PM +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: === modified file 'commands/halt.c' --- commands/halt.c 2009-12-03 23:07:29 + +++ commands/halt.c 2009-12-21 00:10:33 + @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ static grub_command_t cmd; GRUB_M

Re: How to install grub on fakeraid (raid 0) which spans 2 TB?

2009-12-22 Thread Bruce Dubbs
André Heynatz wrote: I have bought two 1 TB harddisks and one 2 TB harddisk (backup). I want to use the 1 TB harddisks in a RAID 0 array (Intel ICH8R Fakeraid). OS: Win XP SP3, Win 7, Ubuntu Linux 9.10 32 Bit My partition plan 1: P ntfs 300 GB Windows XP SP3 32 Bit P ntfs 300 GB Windows 7 32

Re: How to install grub on fakeraid (raid 0) which spans 2 TB?

2009-12-23 Thread Bruce Dubbs
André Heynatz wrote: André Heynatz wrote: I have bought two 1 TB harddisks and one 2 TB harddisk (backup). I want to use the 1 TB harddisks in a RAID 0 array (Intel ICH8R P ntfs 300 GB Windows XP SP3 32 Bit P ntfs 300 GB Windows 7 32 Bit E L swap2 GB Linux swap L ext4 250 GB Ubuntu Lin

Re: How to install grub on fakeraid (raid 0) which spans 2 TB?

2009-12-23 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Seth Goldberg wrote: While the BIOS call supports 48-bit LBA, the MBR partition table is limited to 32-bit LBA addresses for partition dimensions. If you partition the disk with a GPT partition table, those limitations are removed, but GPT-partitioned disks aren't supported by XP (at least).

Re: How to install grub on fakeraid (raid 0) which spans 2 TB?

2009-12-23 Thread Bruce Dubbs
André Heynatz wrote: P ntfs 300 GB Windows XP SP3 32 Bit P ntfs 300 GB Windows 7 32 Bit P ext2 100 MB /boot E L swap2 GB Linux swap L ext4 250 GB Ubuntu Linux 9.10 (Karmic) 32 Bit L ntfs 1100 GB data (for data exchange and storage) L ext4 48 GB spare space for testing of new OSes I h

Re: How to install grub on fakeraid (raid 0) which spans 2 TB?

2009-12-23 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Seth Goldberg wrote: On Dec 23, 2009, at 9:37 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Seth Goldberg wrote: While the BIOS call supports 48-bit LBA, the MBR partition table is limited to 32-bit LBA addresses for partition dimensions. If you partition the disk with a GPT partition table, those limitations

Re: autogen.sh warnings

2009-12-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Robert Millan wrote: On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 10:20:21AM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Felix Zielcke wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 10.12.2009, 00:05 -0600 schrieb Bruce Dubbs: On the other hand, config.guess is used to get build_cpu and build_os and I don't see that being used at all right now by

Re: grub.info

2009-12-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs
another: The content of bzr trunk/docs has a file, grub.texi. Line 6 says: @settitle GNU GRUB Manual @value{VERSION} The wiki is indeed helpful, but not the official GRUB Manual. Both 'Manuals' are terribly incomplete. -- Bruce Dubbs __

Re: grub.info

2009-12-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Bruce O. Benson wrote: If I: - ...merged the contents of both existing documents into a new one... - ...that adhered to the outline you enumerated... - ...assigned copyright to FSF... - ...rendered in texi, html, and pdf. ...Would that be useful for someone to check in to trunk/docs? I don't w

Re: grub.info

2009-12-30 Thread Bruce Dubbs
s would be handled though. -- Bruce Dubbs ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: autogen.sh warnings

2010-01-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Robert Millan wrote: On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 09:50:47PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Robert Millan wrote: What is exactly the problem? Using automake without Makefile.am is non-standard and not provided for within automake. The only thing we use automake for is to copy config.{guess,sub} to

GRUB Faq

2010-01-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I've been working on grub.texi and I notice a reference to http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-faq.html. I will change that to grub-2-faq.en.html before I submit it. I think we should come up with a new list of FAQs here and agree on the answers. I'll be glad to format it. The current que

Re: GRUB Faq

2010-01-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Lapohos Tibor wrote: To clarify, I was talking about the headings: Building / Installation from Source Build Prerequisites Example This is covered in the INSTALL file. I've submitted a new one, but it hasn't been committed. In the meantime you can get most of what you need from: http://w

Re: [BRANCH] Bidi support.

2010-01-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: Hello, all. I'm here to announce initial bidi support in one of my branches, namely people/phcoder/bidi. Looks very nice. Is there a location where the grub.cfg file that generated the image can be viewed? -- Bruce __

Re: [BRANCH] Bidi support.

2010-01-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote: Is there a location where the grub.cfg file that generated the image can be viewed? Attached. Mostly based on Colin's overlay grub.cfg. Excellent. It helps me a l

Re: GRUB Faq

2010-01-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Robert Millan wrote: On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 12:08:28AM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I've been working on grub.texi and I notice a reference to http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-faq.html. I will change that to grub-2-faq.en.html before I submit it. Actually, I'd rather ditch t

Re: [RFC] Dynamic device.map

2010-01-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Robert Millan wrote: On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 04:00:23PM +, Colin Watson wrote: Just leave it with (/dev/foo). You mean literally with the parentheses? I don't understand, since /dev/ names will be unintelligible to GRUB when running outside an operating system. Yes. This just means we'd

Re: [RFC] Dynamic device.map

2010-01-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 04:18:37PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Robert Millan wrote: On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 04:00:23PM +, Colin Watson wrote: Just leave it with (/dev/foo). You mean literally with the parentheses? I don't understand, since /dev/ names wi

Re: [RFC] Dynamic device.map

2010-01-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Felix Zielcke wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 07.01.2010, 23:27 -0600 schrieb Bruce Dubbs: OK, I didn't realize set root was capable of using UUIDs. I did know that the two root entries were different. I got that mixed up with the search command combined with the root=UUID=... which I

Re: Release of 2.00~rc1

2012-06-26 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: Hello, all. I'm proud to introduce 2.00~rc1 to you. It's available as ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-2.00~rc1.tar.gz or ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-2.00~rc1.tar.xz Looks very good. From an LFS point of view, the only trivial warnings I

Minor documentation issue

2012-06-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
The web site still has the 2.00~rc1 manual. I was asked a question about GRUB and CD-ROMS and checked the sites's html documentation. There are at least two places where the html is generated from the texi file incorrectly. texi: * Installing GRUB using grub-install:: * Making a GRUB bootab

Re: Minor documentation issue

2012-06-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Mike Gilbert wrote: On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: By the way, the html is not well formed. There are many missing tags. HTML 4 and earlier do not require closing tags for . Yes, you are right of course. They are allowed though. All my pages are xhtml strict, so

Re: Secure Boot. Why don't you take the wind out of their sails?

2012-07-10 Thread Bruce Dubbs
richardvo...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe I'm missing something, but when I read this, it doesn't say the hardware must have Secure Boot enabled by default. Rather, it must be enabled by the OEM as part of the Windows preinstallation process, so that it's enabled when it reaches the end user. System

grub-2.00 build problem (gets)

2012-07-19 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I ran into a minor problem building GRUB-2.00 with glibc-2.16.0. I had to run a simple command to bypass the problem: sed -i -e '/gets is a security/d' grub-core/gnulib/stdio.in.h This may already be fixed, but I thought I'd post just in case. This has also been showing up in several other p

GRUB 2.00 build and flex-2.5.37

2012-08-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
The latest flex makes the GRUB-2.00 build fail. I can work around the issues with --disable-werror, but grub-core/script/yylex.l causes two warnings that do not work with -Werror. ./grub-core/script/yylex.l: At top level: grub_script.yy.c:2351:13: error: 'yy_fatal_error' defined but not used

Re: GRUB and the risk of block list corruption in extX

2013-02-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 06:17:57PM +0100, Martin Wilck wrote: In my case, the reason is a multiboot setup based on chainloading the indiviual installed OS's bootloaders from a central, primary bootloader. This is easily accomplished by installing the individual OS's bootl

Re: Console Resolution with GRUB2

2013-02-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote: Hello Peter and the rest of the group. I appreciate Peter's efforts to help. However, nothing so far works as needed. With the old grub users who needed larger size characters simply added a vga= line to the boot code. It was simple. Now it seems to be very complex.

Re: Console Resolution with GRUB2

2013-02-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs
D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote: Hello Bruce, The "problem" with this is that grub.cfg says "Do Not Edit this File". The reason it says this is that it is embedded in the script grub-mkconfig. It overwrites the grub.cfg, but if you don't run that and only do manual edits, then it's not there. The p

Re: Console Resolution with GRUB2

2013-02-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs
or use the distro's method of building it. -- Bruce On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 7:13 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote: Hello Bruce, The "problem" with this is that grub.cfg says "Do Not Edit this File". The reason it says this is that it is embedde

Re: USB3 3TB HDD boot

2013-03-15 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Chris Murphy wrote: On Mar 15, 2013, at 8:51 AM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 08:56:18PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: Right, for a 4Kn drive, to read LBA 1 and get the GPT header I'd need: sudo dd if=/dev/disk3 skip=8 count=1 2>/dev/null | hexdump -C Wouldn't using 'bs=40

Re: [RFC] Support for UEFI ESP in os-prober

2013-05-31 Thread Bruce Dubbs
de /boot/grub/grub.d/*.cfg and have an install procedure drop in one or more menu items instead of every os install or update rewriting the entire grub.cfg every time. -- Bruce Dubbs linuxfromscratch.org ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub

Re: Grub2 designer's guide.

2013-06-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Seth Goldberg wrote: On Jun 4, 2013, at 1:59 AM, Vladimir Testov wrote: I've completed the article I was working on. http://wiki.rosalab.ru/en/index.php/Grub2_theme_/_designer%27s_guide Please, take a look. Looks great! Thanks so much for putting this together. This should be include

Re: [RFC] Support for UEFI ESP in os-prober

2013-06-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Mads Kiilerich wrote: On 05/31/2013 07:03 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: I must say I'm generally disappointed with os-prober and have ideas to move away from it. I'll start another topic for it. I agree. I would prefer adding a

Re: [RFC] Support for UEFI ESP in os-prober

2013-06-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: On 05.06.2013 19:58, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: В Wed, 05 Jun 2013 12:21:54 -0500 Bruce Dubbs пишет: Mads Kiilerich wrote: On 05/31/2013 07:03 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: I mu

Re: [RFC] Moving from Bazaar (bzr) to git

2013-06-22 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Paul Menzel wrote: Dear GRUB folks, this is *not* the start of a flame war about what VCS is the best. Hopefully everyone will agree, that git is the most popular one in the FOSS world (Linux, freedesktop.org, GNOME, KDE, …) and a lot of people are now familiar with the basic git commands. So

Re: BUGS: btrfs multi-device support fixes

2013-10-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Andrey Borzenkov wrote: В Sun, 27 Oct 2013 10:47:45 -0400 Gene Czarcinski пишет: On 10/27/2013 02:54 AM, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: В Sat, 26 Oct 2013 16:16:19 -0400 Gene Czarcinski пишет: On 10/26/2013 12:27 PM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: Rejected, similar patches is in tr

Re: [PATCH] update grub web page with reference to GIT instead of bzr.

2013-10-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Andrey Borzenkov wrote: В Sun, 27 Oct 2013 19:24:28 +0400 Andrey Borzenkov пишет: That's where website lags behind. GRUB switched to GIT a while ago. See https://savannah.gnu.org/git/?group=grub As for web site - I do not know; Vladimir, who can edit this? Not sure if I can commit, but -

Re: [PATCH] update grub web page with reference to GIT instead of bzr.

2013-10-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Andrey Borzenkov wrote: В Sun, 27 Oct 2013 11:02:09 -0500 Bruce Dubbs пишет: Andrey Borzenkov wrote: В Sun, 27 Oct 2013 19:24:28 +0400 Andrey Borzenkov пишет: That's where website lags behind. GRUB switched to GIT a while ago. See https://savannah.gnu.org/git/?group=grub As fo

Re: [PATCH] update grub web page with reference to GIT instead of bzr.

2013-10-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: On 27.10.2013 17:23, Bruce Dubbs wrote: If you do have commit privs, please do not update the html directly. I do not know until I try :) Feel free to commit. I'll do that, but would like confirmation. Vladimir, does this look

GRUB Manual Broken Link

2013-11-15 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I was notified by the GNU webmaster that he is getting complaints about the manual at http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html having a broken link: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/multiboot.html#Top It should be http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/multiboot/multiboot.htm

Re: GRUB Manual Broken Link

2013-11-15 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Andrey Borzenkov wrote: В Fri, 15 Nov 2013 10:04:15 -0600 Bruce Dubbs пишет: I was notified by the GNU webmaster that he is getting complaints about the manual at http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html having a broken link: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/multiboot.html

Re: GRUB Manual Broken Link

2013-11-15 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Andrey Borzenkov wrote: В Fri, 15 Nov 2013 10:04:15 -0600 Bruce Dubbs пишет: I was notified by the GNU webmaster that he is getting complaints about the manual at http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html having a broken link: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/multiboot.html

Re: grub-mkimage and other utils documentation

2013-11-26 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Andrey Borzenkov wrote: I started to clean --pubkey in docs, hit grub-mkimage reference, hit "grub-install is just a shell script" ... it really needs cleanup. Is grub-install terse description intentional? If not, I'm going to actually document all utilities and all options not defined as hidden

Re: grub-2.02~beta1 happened

2013-12-18 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: Hello, all. I've just uploaded 2.02~beta1. This also means that we're now in freeze. I'm willing to consider exceptions on case-by-case basis but it would be exceptions. The major points to do before release: - ARM64 loader. - Yeeloong 3A support needs

What is the status of grub-2.02

2014-05-15 Thread Bruce Dubbs
grub-2.02~beta2 was released in December. What are the current plans for another beta or a stable release? -- Bruce ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

grub-2.02-beta

2014-09-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I believe the grub-2.02-beta was announced last December. Are there any plans to do a "stable" release any time soon? -- Bruce Dubbs linuxfromscratch.org ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailma

Re: initrd loading, max size, addr_min, and page_align

2015-02-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Andrei Borzenkov wrote: В Thu, 5 Feb 2015 21:55:54 + Eric Ewanco пишет: Background: I need to use a really large initrd for x86_64 (Linux 3.4.47), and I'm near the limit, so I'm studying grub-core/loader/i386/linux.c to find out the whys and wherefores of the GRUB 2.00 size limit. GRUB

Re: initrd loading, max size, addr_min, and page_align

2015-02-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Andrei Borzenkov wrote: В Sun, 08 Feb 2015 11:14:28 -0600 Bruce Dubbs пишет: Andrei Borzenkov wrote: В Thu, 5 Feb 2015 21:55:54 + Eric Ewanco пишет: Background: I need to use a really large initrd for x86_64 (Linux 3.4.47), and I'm near the limit, so I'm studying grub-c

Re: Bazaar workflow for GRUB

2010-01-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs
BVK Chaitanya wrote: Attached is the initial version of workflow document for GRUB contributions. I am yet to get right DVCS right, so I suspect it might have minor differences from what other developers are following already. I can't comment on details, but thank you for this. It is very he

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