* On 5/20/19 6:52 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> in the course of a problem search between GRUB, Guix, and xorriso we found
> the trigger of a problem with some old Macbook EFI firmware in a gesture
> of mformat.
> Line 1375 of
>
>
Since the upgrade of gnulib grub.git#master fails to compile if gettext is "too
old". This also happens with configure --disable-nls:
+ bash bootstrap --gnulib-srcdir=./grub-core/lib/gnulib --skip-po --no-git
--no-bootstrap-sync
bootstrap: Error: 'gettext' version == 0.17 is too old
bootstrap:
Hi,
in the course of a problem search between GRUB, Guix, and xorriso we found
the trigger of a problem with some old Macbook EFI firmware in a gesture
of mformat.
Line 1375 of
http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/mtools/trunk/mformat.c?revision=506=markup
has
/* install fake partition table
Hi,
i wrote:
> > So i propose the change as fine tuning of the original developer's
> > intention. (Vladimir will correct me if i'm wrong.)
Daniel Kiper wrote:
> After some thinking I have an itching to add the "-k" option to the
> mformat.
I am not courageous enough to go that far.
> So, I
On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 02:18:51PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i quoted mformat.c:
> > > /* install fake partition table pointing to itself */
>
> Daniel Kiper wrote:
> > OK, but why it is also done for FDD images?
>
> According to its man page, mformat formats floppies. So the
On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 05:16:34PM +0100, Neil MacLeod wrote:
> Hi Daniel & Michael
>
> I've tested the new patch (in place of my attempt) and grub is
> building successfully so it looks good here!
Thanks! I allowed myself to add your Tested-by. I hope this is not
a problem for you.
Michael,
Dear Daniel,
On 20.05.19 13:39, Daniel Kiper wrote:
CC-ing Paul.
On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 09:04:43PM +0200, Jacob Kroon wrote:
Linux supports root=PARTUUID= boot argument, so add
support for probing it. Compared to the fs UUID, the partition
UUID does not change when reformatting a partition.
CC-ing Paul.
On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 09:04:43PM +0200, Jacob Kroon wrote:
> Linux supports root=PARTUUID= boot argument, so add
> support for probing it. Compared to the fs UUID, the partition
> UUID does not change when reformatting a partition.
>
> For now, only disks using a GPT partition
