Re: GRUB2 changes, introducing EFI

2012-10-29 Thread Elan Ruusamäe
On 28.10.2012 13:23, Paweł Gołaszewski wrote: On Sat, 27 Oct 2012, Jacek Konieczny wrote: Please note: now the 'grub2' package does not contain any platform files. You have to install grub2-pc (or grub2-efi) too. virtual provides grub2-platform in each platform package and requires:

Re: GRUB2 changes, introducing EFI

2012-10-29 Thread Grzesiek
W dniu 28.10.2012 21:42, Jacek Konieczny pisze: On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 09:27:29PM +0100, Grzesiek wrote: I guess you mean one of the options often used with legacy grub: 1. the space between MBR and the first partition 2. the unused space at the beginning of a ext[234] file system Which one?

Re: GRUB2 changes, introducing EFI

2012-10-28 Thread Paweł Gołaszewski
On Sat, 27 Oct 2012, Jacek Konieczny wrote: Please note: now the 'grub2' package does not contain any platform files. You have to install grub2-pc (or grub2-efi) too. virtual provides grub2-platform in each platform package and requires: grub2-platform in main package will do that job.

Re: GRUB2 changes, introducing EFI

2012-10-28 Thread Jacek Konieczny
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 12:23:16PM +0100, Paweł Gołaszewski wrote: On Sat, 27 Oct 2012, Jacek Konieczny wrote: Please note: now the 'grub2' package does not contain any platform files. You have to install grub2-pc (or grub2-efi) too. virtual provides grub2-platform in each platform

Re: GRUB2 changes, introducing EFI

2012-10-28 Thread Paweł Sikora
On Sunday 28 of October 2012 12:34:30 Jacek Konieczny wrote: On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 12:23:16PM +0100, Paweł Gołaszewski wrote: On Sat, 27 Oct 2012, Jacek Konieczny wrote: Please note: now the 'grub2' package does not contain any platform files. You have to install grub2-pc (or

Re: GRUB2 changes, introducing EFI

2012-10-28 Thread Jacek Konieczny
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 01:39:54PM +0100, Paweł Sikora wrote: Booted without problems :) so, can you wraite a mini-howto for migrating from grub-legacy to grub2-eufi for machines with / on lvm on raid ? :) I don't have EFI on my laptop. And no RAID, but Luks. Migrating from grub-legacy to

Re: GRUB2 changes, introducing EFI

2012-10-28 Thread Michael Shigorin
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 02:56:25PM +0100, Jacek Konieczny wrote: Migrating a server with / on LVM on hardware RAID from GRUB-legacy/BIOS to GRUB2/EFI was much more complicated Just in case, I've got an AMD C60 based board for UEFI testing and would be glad to help out PLD if that's needed.

Re: GRUB2 changes, introducing EFI

2012-10-28 Thread Jacek Konieczny
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 06:09:30PM +0200, Michael Shigorin wrote: On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 02:56:25PM +0100, Jacek Konieczny wrote: Migrating a server with / on LVM on hardware RAID from GRUB-legacy/BIOS to GRUB2/EFI was much more complicated Just in case, I've got an AMD C60 based board

Re: GRUB2 changes, introducing EFI

2012-10-28 Thread Michael Shigorin
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 06:19:58PM +0100, Jacek Konieczny wrote: Can you test the GRUB/EFI installation with standard PLD kernel? What ISO should I burn for the starters? -- WBR, Michael Shigorin m...@altlinux.ru -- Linux.Kiev http://www.linux.kiev.ua/

Re: GRUB2 changes, introducing EFI

2012-10-28 Thread Jacek Konieczny
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 07:27:26PM +0200, Michael Shigorin wrote: On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 06:19:58PM +0100, Jacek Konieczny wrote: Can you test the GRUB/EFI installation with standard PLD kernel? What ISO should I burn for the starters? Oops… that is not that easy ;) I have assumed you are

Re: GRUB2 changes, introducing EFI

2012-10-28 Thread Michael Shigorin
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 06:48:59PM +0100, Jacek Konieczny wrote: What ISO should I burn for the starters? Oops... that is not that easy ;) I have assumed you are familiar with PLD Linux... Rather theoretically, I st^H^Hborrowed a *lot* of PLD specs and patches into ALT Linux packages over

Re: GRUB2 changes, introducing EFI

2012-10-28 Thread Grzesiek
W dniu 27.10.2012 22:56, Jacek Konieczny pisze: Hello, I wanted to boot my servers natively, from UEFI, instead of BIOS compatibility mode. I wanted to use GRUB for that, but found out GRUB2 in PLD lacks EFI support. First I have updated out grub2.spec from version 1.99 to 2.00, then I have

Re: GRUB2 changes, introducing EFI

2012-10-28 Thread Jacek Konieczny
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 08:12:29PM +0100, Grzesiek wrote: I'm using grub2 but some old version from RCD because new packages from TH won't fit into my MBR. Why do you want grub installed in MBR? I don't think any GRUB would fit into 446 bytes. I guess you mean one of the options often used

Re: GRUB2 changes, introducing EFI

2012-10-28 Thread Grzesiek
W dniu 28.10.2012 20:46, Jacek Konieczny pisze: On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 08:12:29PM +0100, Grzesiek wrote: I'm using grub2 but some old version from RCD because new packages from TH won't fit into my MBR. Why do you want grub installed in MBR? I don't think any GRUB would fit into 446 bytes.

Re: GRUB2 changes, introducing EFI

2012-10-28 Thread Jacek Konieczny
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 09:27:29PM +0100, Grzesiek wrote: I guess you mean one of the options often used with legacy grub: 1. the space between MBR and the first partition 2. the unused space at the beginning of a ext[234] file system Which one? And how much space do you have there? The

GRUB2 changes, introducing EFI

2012-10-27 Thread Jacek Konieczny
Hello, I wanted to boot my servers natively, from UEFI, instead of BIOS compatibility mode. I wanted to use GRUB for that, but found out GRUB2 in PLD lacks EFI support. First I have updated out grub2.spec from version 1.99 to 2.00, then I have started adding EFI support. For that I have removed