Bug#767037: Grub EFI fallback - patches for review

2014-12-22 Thread David Härdeman
On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 08:24:08PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 10:49:59AM +, Ian Campbell wrote: On Sat, 2014-12-20 at 09:45 +0100, David Härdeman wrote: one option that doesn't seem to have been considered would be to create a separate package (let's call it UEFIx)

Bug#767037: Grub EFI fallback - patches for review

2014-12-21 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sat, 2014-12-20 at 09:45 +0100, David Härdeman wrote: one option that doesn't seem to have been considered would be to create a separate package (let's call it UEFIx) that installs an UEFI binary to EFI/boot/bootx64.efi. That binary could then do what the UEFI BIOS should've done (i.e. look

Bug#767037: Grub EFI fallback - patches for review

2014-12-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 09:45:30AM +0100, David Härdeman wrote: Hi, Hi! one option that doesn't seem to have been considered would be to create a separate package (let's call it UEFIx) that installs an UEFI binary to EFI/boot/bootx64.efi. That binary could then do what the UEFI BIOS should've

Bug#767037: Grub EFI fallback - patches for review

2014-12-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 10:49:59AM +, Ian Campbell wrote: On Sat, 2014-12-20 at 09:45 +0100, David Härdeman wrote: one option that doesn't seem to have been considered would be to create a separate package (let's call it UEFIx) that installs an UEFI binary to EFI/boot/bootx64.efi. That

Bug#767037: Grub EFI fallback - patches for review

2014-12-20 Thread David Härdeman
Hi, one option that doesn't seem to have been considered would be to create a separate package (let's call it UEFIx) that installs an UEFI binary to EFI/boot/bootx64.efi. That binary could then do what the UEFI BIOS should've done (i.e. look at the EFI vars for bootorder, bootnext, etc and then

Bug#767037: Grub EFI fallback - patches for review

2014-12-08 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2014-12-08 at 01:36 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: The current package in sid (-17) is unblocked and I think ought to transition tomorrow (or perhaps Tuesday depending on TZ). I propose to upload -18 with this change shortly after that happens. Will you take care of the unblock request

Bug#767037: Grub EFI fallback - patches for review

2014-12-08 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 07:29:56PM +, Ian Campbell wrote: On Mon, 2014-12-08 at 01:36 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: The current package in sid (-17) is unblocked and I think ought to transition tomorrow (or perhaps Tuesday depending on TZ). I propose to upload -18 with this change shortly

Bug#767037: Grub EFI fallback - patches for review

2014-12-07 Thread Ian Campbell
Control: tag -1 +pending On Wed, 2014-12-03 at 15:27 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 09:42:20AM +, Ian Campbell wrote: On Wed, 2014-12-03 at 01:55 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 08:36:31AM +, Ian Campbell wrote: On Mon, 2014-12-01 at 13:57

Bug#767037: Grub EFI fallback - patches for review

2014-12-07 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sun, Dec 07, 2014 at 04:38:37PM +, Ian Campbell wrote: Control: tag -1 +pending On Wed, 2014-12-03 at 15:27 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: Cool. I don't (think I) have push access to the git repo, so if you could do the honours and apply, that would be lovely. :-) Done, patches are now

Bug#767037: Grub EFI fallback - patches for review

2014-12-03 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2014-12-03 at 02:10 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 08:51:24AM +, Ian Campbell wrote: On Mon, 2014-12-01 at 13:57 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: I didn't review the text since that seems to have been done already. diff --git

Bug#767037: Grub EFI fallback - patches for review

2014-12-03 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2014-12-03 at 01:55 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 08:36:31AM +, Ian Campbell wrote: On Mon, 2014-12-01 at 13:57 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: Starting with grub-install-fallback.patch: From e384e597914b6e1b1dcbf96ef6782cf9bcc2313b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

Bug#767037: Grub EFI fallback - patches for review

2014-12-03 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 09:42:20AM +, Ian Campbell wrote: On Wed, 2014-12-03 at 01:55 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 08:36:31AM +, Ian Campbell wrote: On Mon, 2014-12-01 at 13:57 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: Starting with grub-install-fallback.patch: From

Bug#767037: Grub EFI fallback - patches for review

2014-12-03 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 09:44:08AM +, Ian Campbell wrote: On Wed, 2014-12-03 at 02:10 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: +mountvirtfs () { + fstype=$1 + path=$2 + if grep -q [[:space:]]$fstype\$ /proc/filesystems \ + ! grep -q ^[^ ]\+ \+$path /proc/mounts;

Bug#767037: Grub EFI fallback - patches for review

2014-12-03 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 04:18:23PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: A more generic fix would be to add to a list of filesystems that need unmounting, and trap to a new shell function that unmounts that list. Not too hard, I think - I'll see if I can do that and get it tested today. Frankly, I'd also

Bug#767037: Grub EFI fallback - patches for review

2014-12-02 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2014-12-01 at 13:57 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: Starting with grub-install-fallback.patch: From e384e597914b6e1b1dcbf96ef6782cf9bcc2313b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 debian/patches/grub-install-extra-removable.patch | 115 ++ Could you send this to

Bug#767037: Grub EFI fallback - patches for review

2014-12-02 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2014-12-01 at 13:57 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: grub-installer-rescue-UEFI-removable.patch: diff --git a/debian/grub-installer.templates b/debian/grub-installer.templates index e439ad0..a6af2ec 100644 --- a/debian/grub-installer.templates +++ b/debian/grub-installer.templates @@

Bug#767037: Grub EFI fallback - patches for review

2014-12-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 08:36:31AM +, Ian Campbell wrote: On Mon, 2014-12-01 at 13:57 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: Starting with grub-install-fallback.patch: From e384e597914b6e1b1dcbf96ef6782cf9bcc2313b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 debian/patches/grub-install-extra-removable.patch | 115

Bug#767037: Grub EFI fallback - patches for review

2014-12-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 08:51:24AM +, Ian Campbell wrote: On Mon, 2014-12-01 at 13:57 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: grub-installer-rescue-UEFI-removable.patch: diff --git a/debian/grub-installer.templates b/debian/grub-installer.templates index e439ad0..a6af2ec 100644 ---

Bug#767037: Grub EFI fallback - patches for review

2014-12-01 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Steve McIntyre st...@einval.com (2014-12-01): Control: severity 767037 serious Control: tag 767037 +patch [ Raising severity to serious as I've heard more and more reports of the problems here recently. ] Hi folks, i have two patches attached here, one for grub and one for

Bug#767037: Grub EFI fallback - patches for review

2014-12-01 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 03:52:51PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Steve McIntyre st...@einval.com (2014-12-01): Control: severity 767037 serious Control: tag 767037 +patch [ Raising severity to serious as I've heard more and more reports of the problems here recently. ] Hi folks, i

Bug#767037: Grub EFI fallback - patches for review

2014-12-01 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Steve McIntyre st...@einval.com (2014-12-01): Hmmm, you're right. There's some existing inconsistencies already, which don't help. In various places we already use EFI (e.g. in the GRUB package names, EFI System Partition etc.) but in others it's UEFI. Maybe we'd be better with just EFI

Bug#767037: Grub EFI fallback - patches for review

2014-12-01 Thread Holger Levsen
On Montag, 1. Dezember 2014, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Looking at the EFI/UEFI history, I hope nobody will think EFI is the deprecated, pre-UEFI implementation. I wouldn't be so sure. Up until this very moment I thought EFI was something different than UEFI... With that in mind, and with all