Re: [PATCH] Install to LVM PVs

2016-05-09 Thread Xen
Andrei Borzenkov schreef op 08-05-2016 11:23: PV label may be in the first sector. In this case label will be overwritten later by boot image. This needs additional check. Pardon my last mail. ON OLD PV SIGNATURES If you have an old PV that had a boatloaderarea, then wip

Re: A black window pop out after I select a boot entry in grub2

2016-08-10 Thread Xen
Andrei Borzenkov schreef op 10-08-2016 16:17: This is terminal window (same you get when entering CLI) where messages from commands are displayed (do not forget that menu entry is simply list of commands, so you *are* entering CLI in a sense). There is no way to disable it. Several years ago ope

Re: A black window pop out after I select a boot entry in grub2

2016-08-10 Thread Xen
Xen schreef op 10-08-2016 19:57: There is no interface where partitions are subdirectories of disks? There is no /dev/disk/sda/1/ Once you had a consistent interface to reference such "names" it would become easier to make the jump to a user-friendly operating system in terms

Re: A black window pop out after I select a boot entry in grub2

2016-08-10 Thread Xen
Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko schreef op 10-08-2016 20:02: It's not about kernel but GRUB messages Right. Apologies then ;-). Maybe if someone is not booting from a prompt or edited menu entry those messages should not be displayed. "Booting command list" after all seems to be quite incomp

Re: Grub2, can the following be done

2017-04-12 Thread Xen
Andrei Borzenkov schreef op 12-04-2017 5:26: For PCBIOS having each distribution install its GRUB in own partition and chainloading it is well understood and established practice, but it makes it rather hard to auto-detect and incorporate such boot blocks. You mean autodetecting Grub boot reco

Re: Grub2, can the following be done

2017-04-12 Thread Xen
Xen schreef op 12-04-2017 9:47: Andrei Borzenkov schreef op 12-04-2017 5:26: For PCBIOS having each distribution install its GRUB in own partition and chainloading it is well understood and established practice, but it makes it rather hard to auto-detect and incorporate such boot blocks

Re: Grub2, can the following be done

2017-04-12 Thread Xen
Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko schreef op 12-04-2017 10:26: The new config incorporates those ideas. I'll share the proposal when it's in a better shape. Alright thanks, sounds cool :). ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu

Re: Contribution

2017-04-12 Thread Xen
Nicole schreef op 12-04-2017 18:51: Thank you for your kind reply, Vladimir. I failed to find the probe command - I promise - I spent quite a few hours digging through the source. As for the $((...)) and $[...] - I'll look into it. It seems that my paltry contributions are not needed, after all.

Re: CAN GRUB DO WRITING OPERATIONS ON ATTACHED DRIVES ?

2017-07-17 Thread Xen
ingegneriafore...@alice.it schreef op 16-07-2017 23:37: 1- After a PC restart (that is when the BIOS/UEFI has finished to inizialize hardware periferals and give the control to the GRUB) i'm interesting to know if GRUB implicitily (that is without an explicit command from a user) can write to

Re: grub2-probe confused by double bind mount?

2017-08-07 Thread Xen
Chris Murphy schreef op 07-08-2017 8:56: The non-working case looks like it starts failing after line 213, openat /proc/self/mountinfo as if whatever it finds there is not at all helpful. The only similar thing I ever experienced is when my system inside a chroot actually had a line filtering

Re: CAN GRUB DO WRITING OPERATIONS ON ATTACHED DRIVES ?

2017-10-14 Thread Xen
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