Bug#698914: Fixing #698914 for wheezy (grub booting Windows 8 via UEFI)

2013-05-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 03:40:53PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: He pointed me at an existing set of patches from the folks at openSUSE, which I've adapted very slightly and tested out: * Using an existing installation * Using a locally-built CD to test the os-prober udeb and all works

Bug#698914: Fixing #698914 for wheezy (grub booting Windows 8 via UEFI)

2013-04-28 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sat, 2013-04-27 at 15:01 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: On Sat, 2013-04-27 at 15:37 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Steve McIntyre st...@einval.com (25/04/2013): I opened #698914 a while back, concerned about the lack of support in grub and os-prober for detecting Windows 8 on UEFI

Bug#698914: Fixing #698914 for wheezy (grub booting Windows 8 via UEFI)

2013-04-28 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Adam D. Barratt a...@adam-barratt.org.uk (28/04/2013): What's the status there? Being another day nearer the published date doesn't make me any /less/ nervous, certainly... As Steve told you on IRC, things got uploaded. While I have no ways of testing those things, the patches look good to me,

Bug#698914: Fixing #698914 for wheezy (grub booting Windows 8 via UEFI)

2013-04-28 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sun, 2013-04-28 at 22:36 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: While I have no ways of testing those things, the patches look good to me, please unblock/unblock-udeb/urgent grub2 os-prober. All done. Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Bug#698914: Fixing #698914 for wheezy (grub booting Windows 8 via UEFI)

2013-04-28 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sun, 2013-04-28 at 21:44 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: On Sun, 2013-04-28 at 22:36 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: While I have no ways of testing those things, the patches look good to me, please unblock/unblock-udeb/urgent grub2 os-prober. All done. As mentioned on IRC, grub2 has

Bug#698914: Fixing #698914 for wheezy (grub booting Windows 8 via UEFI)

2013-04-27 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Steve McIntyre st...@einval.com (25/04/2013): I opened #698914 a while back, concerned about the lack of support in grub and os-prober for detecting Windows 8 on UEFI systems so that working boot entries would be added automatically at installation time. At the time, I did not consider the

Bug#698914: Fixing #698914 for wheezy (grub booting Windows 8 via UEFI)

2013-04-27 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sat, 2013-04-27 at 15:37 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Steve McIntyre st...@einval.com (25/04/2013): I opened #698914 a while back, concerned about the lack of support in grub and os-prober for detecting Windows 8 on UEFI systems so [...] We'd need a d-i wheezy rc3. Not sure there's

Bug#698914: Fixing #698914 for wheezy (grub booting Windows 8 via UEFI)

2013-04-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hi folks, I opened #698914 a while back, concerned about the lack of support in grub and os-prober for detecting Windows 8 on UEFI systems so that working boot entries would be added automatically at installation time. At the time, I did not consider the issue RC. However, discussion yesterday

Bug#698914: Fixing #698914 for wheezy (grub booting Windows 8 via UEFI)

2013-04-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2013-04-25 at 15:40 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: Hi folks, I opened #698914 a while back, concerned about the lack of support in grub and os-prober for detecting Windows 8 on UEFI systems so that working boot entries would be added automatically at installation time. At the time, I

Bug#698914: Fixing #698914 for wheezy (grub booting Windows 8 via UEFI)

2013-04-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
severity 698914 serious thanks On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 08:06:51PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Thu, 2013-04-25 at 15:40 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: ... and all works fine, fixing the bug nicely. I would like to upload (and get unblocks for) new grub2 and os-prober packages - see debdiffs

Bug#698914: Fixing #698914 for wheezy (grub booting Windows 8 via UEFI)

2013-04-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 12:11:10AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: [...] This directory only exists if efivars is loaded. I assume that SUSE configures it as built-in, and our kernel package has a patch to trigger autoloading of efivars on systems with EFI. But for the benefit of people using

Bug#698914: Fixing #698914 for wheezy (grub booting Windows 8 via UEFI)

2013-04-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 12:31:41AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 12:11:10AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: [...] This directory only exists if efivars is loaded. I assume that SUSE configures it as built-in, and our kernel package has a patch to trigger autoloading of