On 25.12.2013 12:11, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > If UAC is enabled, running grub-install (and probably others too - did > not try) will request privilege elevation; but then process is > re-launched in separate window and disappears after it is finished. > This makes even reading help impossible. I think that the cause of it is get_default_platform which uses get_efi_variable to check for EFI. Perhaps we should check privileges and assume BIOS if get_default_platform is run just for the help. > > May be grub should check for privilege elevation status and refuse to > run if it is not sufficient. > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel >
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