В Ср, 25/12/2013 в 13:16 +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko пишет: > 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.
Yes, of course. > Perhaps we should check privileges > and assume BIOS if get_default_platform is run just for the help. Better would be to tell the truth - platform unknown. We will need privilege elevation to perform installation any way. What we could do is to explicitly warn user about it and later grub-install will simply exit due to unknown platform. > > > > 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
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