Re: Dell BIOS issue reading Disk Extended data

This should *not* be made default because grub's native drivers don't get very much testing, and they do cause grub to hang on some hardware, but you can likely get around this limitation with: grub-install --target=i386-pc --disk-module native /dev/sdX If you want to test it without installing

Re: Adding spoken lenguages to the menu

l try to help when I can and if you want to take code from Super GRUB2 Disk that I wrote I am willing to say that my copyright assignment to grub covers that code as well. That said 1: I Am Not A Lawer, 2: Do *not* copy any code from SG2D or anywhere else without clearly stating where it came from when y

Re: Menu for booting BTRFS snapshots

nu with one entry per snapshot. And by dynamically I don't mean "re-run grub-mkconfig to generate a new grub.cfg", I mean they can literally be detected at boot by grub using grub-script. -- Jordan Uggla (Jordan_U on irc.freenode.net) On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 1:40 PM, Robert LeBlanc <rob..

Re: Exercise: Booting from a LiveUSB ISO and contents on /dev/sda6

On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 3:27 AM, Philip Rhoades wrote: > People, > > I want to enlarge my root partition on a Fedora 23 x86_64 system and I know > I can boot on a LiveUSB stick and use [g]parted from there to do what I want > but I thought I would try creating a small partition

Re: Exercise: Booting from a LiveUSB ISO and contents on /dev/sda6

orks of grub legacy that used "map --hook". -- Jordan Uggla (Jordan_U on irc.freenode.net) ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: Kernel panics (in QEMU) when booting with GRUB2 + OVMF + QEMU.

to reproduce this myself, and I don't know when I will have time to do so. -- Jordan Uggla (Jordan_U on irc.freenode.net) ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: Future of installing GRUB to LVM volumes (and loop devices)

On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 7:10 AM, Sebastian Pipping sebast...@pipping.org wrote: On 16.05.2015 05:47, Jordan Uggla wrote: The setup is a single plain partition in an LVM volume. The following commands reproduce the setup (in RAM if /tmp is tmpfs). With a plain LVM volume, the error is the same

Re: about an grub 2.00 installation error

: #grub-install –boot-directory=/boot /dev/sda Is there anyone encountered the similar error and have a solution to it? grub-devel is for discussion related to the development of GNU GRUB, not user support. Please send support questions to help-g...@gnu.org instead. -- Jordan Uggla (Jordan_U

Re: [PATCH] Add config option to prefer Linux kernel versions by substring match

as documented in the texinfo manual). -- Jordan Uggla (Jordan_U on irc.freenode.net) ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/4] Add an option to exclude devices from search results.

(or UUID-files) from being searched by the search command. -- Jordan Uggla (Jordan_U on irc.freenode.net) ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: Console Resolution with GRUB2

unrelated discussion for now, I would like to stick to one thing at a time to prevent this thread from getting more chaotic. -- Jordan Uggla (Jordan_U on irc.freenode.net) ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Console Resolution with GRUB2

having, which is that the linux kernel and the way that distributions configure things has changed, not grub. -- Jordan Uggla (Jordan_U on irc.freenode.net) ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: bootable RAID, number of member disks limitation

. I haven't tried it with KVM's SEABIOS yet. I am surprised to hear that this problem is appearing with VirtualBox rather than real hardware. If this is a bug in VirtualBox's BIOS then a bug report should definitely be filed with them. -- Jordan Uggla (Jordan_U on irc.freenode.net

Re: --recheck option

what you're doing and have a backup of your device.map anyway). So the advice is a little silly at this point, but not harmful. -- Jordan Uggla (Jordan_U on irc.freenode.net) ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman

Re: Boot dell in uefi mode from usb stick

that sdc1 is a proper EFI System Partition, mounted at /mnt/sdc1/, that gives you something like sudo grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --boot-directory=/mnt/sdc1/boot/ --efi-directory=/mnt/sdc1/ --removable. The --efi-directory option requires grub 2.00 beta6 or newer. -- Jordan Uggla (Jordan_U

Re: [PATCH] Boot immediately after GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT

with grub's behavior changing for existing configurations with regard to these variables upon upgrading to grub 2.00. Below is a patch which fixes the documentation in grub.texi. -- Jordan Uggla (Jordan_U on irc.freenode.net) === modified file 'ChangeLog' --- ChangeLog 2012-05-15 15:17:06 +

Re: Helping upgrading Grub2's documentation

@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel It might also be useful to pop into the #grub IRC channel on freenode, http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=grubuio=d4 -- Jordan Uggla (Jordan_U on irc.freenode.net) ___ Grub-devel mailing

Re: Source, configfile and normal

https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel -- Jordan Uggla (Jordan_U on irc.freenode.net) ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: [PATCH] Add submenu support to 10_linux (grub-mkconfig)

In my first patch I rather stupidly asked gettext for a translation of %s. Updated patch below does not have this mistake. -- Jordan Uggla (Jordan_U on irc.freenode.net) === modified file 'util/grub-mkconfig.in' --- util/grub-mkconfig.in 2012-02-26 17:37:54 + +++ util/grub

Re: grub legacy to grub2 upgrade path

assume that phcoder's recent request there for testing of a patch for this applies to you as well. -- Jordan Uggla (Jordan_U on irc.freenode.net) ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: Grub 2 Problem with SSD

BIOS and I'll give more details on help-grub. -- Jordan Uggla (Jordan_U on irc.freenode.net) ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: [PATCH] Don't create grubenv on ZFS

to basically having no effect, so there is no harm in making the changes to grubenv on the off chance the user knows better, but it should produce a clear warning that grub-reboot cannot function without a grubenv writeable by grub at boot. -- Jordan Uggla (Jordan_U on irc.freenode.net

Re: Variable chosen not being set to the last entry booted

more like bash, you need to quote your variables if they might contain spaces. So you want something like: saved_entry=$chosen -- Jordan Uggla (Jordan_U on irc.freenode.net) ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman

Re: Variable chosen not being set to the last entry booted

email to technical mailing lists, and please also send support requests to help-g...@gnu.org rather than grub-devel. -- Jordan Uggla (Jordan_U on irc.freenode.net) ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub

Re: Out of Memory Error

this create a small /boot/ partition near the beginning of the drive. -- Jordan Uggla (Jordan_U on irc.freenode.net) ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: Full documentation for GRUB2

there in comments? I was not able to browse source in Savannah's Bazaar since this option is apparently broken? You can browse the source online via the launchpad mirror: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~vcs-imports/grub/grub2-bzr/files . -- Jordan Uggla (Jordan_U on irc.freenode.net

Re: Example theme mentioned in manual

fonts, etc). -- Jordan Uggla (Jordan_U on irc.freenode.net) ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: Example theme mentioned in manual

didnt work - am I doing something wrong there, is it Ubuntu or is the theme just outdated? The theme is outdated. An updated version of it is included in the themes.tar.gz I linked to. -- Jordan Uggla (Jordan_U on irc.freenode.net) ___ Grub-devel

[PATCH] Re: ACPI halt failures in tests

/testcase.cfg +terminal_output console # Stop serial output to supress +# ACPI shutdown failed error. halt EOF -- Jordan Uggla (Jordan_U on irc.freenode.net) ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org

Re: [PATCH] Use submenus for 10_linux

an advantage of using a simplified primary menu title (without a kernel version), as in this case if a user wanted the default selection to be Ubuntu with the latest installed kernel they would simply specify: GRUB_DEFAULT=Ubuntu -- Jordan Uggla (Jordan_U on irc.freenode.net

Re: increasing grubenv file size

in your case. -- Jordan Uggla (Jordan_U on irc.freenode.net) ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: [PATCH] Use submenus for 10_linux

a proof of concept patch which does this. -- Jordan Uggla (Jordan_U on irc.freenode.net) === modified file 'util/grub.d/10_linux.in' --- util/grub.d/10_linux.in 2010-11-01 11:49:40 + +++ util/grub.d/10_linux.in 2010-11-25 01:03:00 + @@ -55,15 +55,25 @@ { os=$1 version=$2 - recovery=$3

[PATCH] Update grub-install documentation.

-j7zw8icehfwb7g25 # # Begin patch === modified file 'ChangeLog' --- ChangeLog 2010-09-20 20:24:30 + +++ ChangeLog 2010-09-20 21:01:51 + @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2010-09-20 Jordan Uggla jordan.ug...@gmail.com + + Update grub-install documetation to account for changes between + GRUB

Syntax options for dynamic menu generation in grub-script

with option two). While I only mentioned the two options that were discussed on IRC, I am sure there are other solutions to be brought to this discussion. -- Jordan Uggla (Jordan_U on irc.freenode.net) ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http

standard for loop bootable iso images.

and suggesting I ask here if there had been any progress with that idea. That post suggests having a multiboot bootloader on the iso, passing the iso path to the bootloader via the multiboot cmdline. Any comments on either proposal, or an entirely different one, are welcome and encouraged. -- Jordan

[PATCH] Add missing dependencies to INSTALL

Gettext and qemu ( for make-check ) are missing from INSTALL, attached patch fixes this. -- Jordan Uggla (Jordan_U on irc.freenode.net) === modified file 'ChangeLog' --- ChangeLog 2010-03-01 20:00:02 + +++ ChangeLog 2010-03-02 17:33:56 + @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2010-03-02 Jordan Uggla

Re: lua 'grub.run' does not return message text

() and grub.enum_file() . -- Jordan Uggla ( Jordan_U on irc.freenode.net ) ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: lua 'grub.run' does not return message text

, grub.run doesn't even attempt to return the error message ( though that might be a useful feature to add ). What documentation were you looking at? -- Jordan Uggla ( Jordan_U on irc.freenode.net ) ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http

Re: lua 'grub.run' does not return message text

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Jordan Uggla jordan.ug...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 1:12 PM,  edgar.sol...@web.de wrote: When I run err,msg = grub.run(ls) only the variable err is filled with the exit code. msg is still nil .. I saw documentation that grub.run is supposed

Re: Problems with grub-reboot/savedefault/default=saved

Vladimir has talked about having submenus ( one debian menu with separate kernel versions in a submenu for instance ) which will probably help solve this problem. -- Jordan Uggla ( Jordan_U on irc.freenode.net ) ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel

Re: Problems with grub-reboot/savedefault/default=saved

cleanly and are consistent with the new changes from the savedefault branch that were merged into experimental ( using set var=value instead of just var=value ). -- Jordan Uggla ( Jordan_U on irc.freenode.net ) === modified file 'util/grub-mkconfig_lib.in' --- old/util/grub-mkconfig_lib.in 2009-12

Problems with grub-reboot/savedefault/default=saved

to solve this problem. -- Jordan Uggla ( Jordan_U on irc.freenode.net ) === modified file 'util/grub-mkconfig_lib.in' --- old/util/grub-mkconfig_lib.in 2009-12-09 21:03:26 + +++ new/util/grub-mkconfig_lib.in 2009-12-16 20:12:30 + @@ -97,8 +97,10 @@ save_default_entry () { if [ x

Re: Imminent bugfix release (1.97.1)

None of the .sh scripts ( autogen.sh and the scripts it uses ) are executable; I needed to chmod 744 *.sh before I could run ./autogen.sh successfully. After doing that make failed with an error in auth.c. This was with revision 1780. I've attached the output from ./configure and make. On Sun,

Sourcing scripts from lua

Hi everyone, Is there a good way to source lua scripts from within lua? I've tried require() but the function doesn't exist. loadfile() and loadstring() exist but always return nil. -- Jordan Uggla ( Jordan_U on irc.freenode.net ) ___ Grub-devel