patch to allow modelist for gfxterm

2007-05-30 Thread chaac
Hi All, I am on the road at the moment so this is not polished, but I would like to get comments from you, how it works and what you think about integrating it to cvs. Example: set gfxmode=1024x768;800x600;640x480 And when gfxterm is initialized it would first try out first mode and then

Re: TPM chip and Grub bootloader

2007-05-30 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 11:06:49AM +0200, Patrick Georgi wrote: As so often, it can be used for, and against the user. Do these chips support so-called owner override ? If they don't, then this tool contains logic specificaly designed to be used _against_ the user, and your argument that it

Re: TPM chip and Grub bootloader

2007-05-30 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 10:11:03AM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 11:06:49 +0200, Patrick Georgi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As so often, it can be used for, and against the user. Binding certain data to a machine (eg. certificates) and making it non-trivial to get

Re: multiboot header error

2007-05-30 Thread Constantine Kousoulos
Here is a sample kernel, built as elf64, that simply refuses to boot. It consists of only two files: boot.S and multiboot.h. It does absolutely nothing and it is a cut-down version of the kernel found at http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/multiboot/multiboot.html#Example-OS-code or in

Re: TPM chip and Grub bootloader

2007-05-30 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070530 15:18]: IOW, no matter who the keys belong to, the problem is there's a component in the hardware I paid for that is hostile to me, which contains keys that I cannot retrieve (good, because of security), and refuses to use the keys on anything I want