Re: A thread on grub-bug could need attention

2018-01-30 Thread Michel Bouissou
Hi there, Le 29/01/2018 à 19:53, Thomas Schmitt a écrit : > > Does this mean that the decisive trick is to use GPT with EFI partition > instead of a MBR partition of type 0xEF ? > > Or is there something missing in the FAT filesystem images of e.g. > Debian installation ISOs like > >

Re: A thread on grub-bug could need attention

2018-01-30 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, I wrote: > > Does this mean that the decisive trick is to use GPT with EFI partition > > instead of a MBR partition of type 0xEF ? Michel Bouissou wrote: > So might this machine boot only from GPT disks ? Well, then it would'tn > boot a Knoppix ISO image stick. But it does... Yes, i

Re: [PATCH] Make grub-install check for errors from efibootmgr

2018-01-30 Thread Daniel Kiper
On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 06:54:23PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Code is currently ignoring errors from efibootmgr, giving users > clearly bogus output like: > > Setting up grub-efi-amd64 (2.02~beta3-4) ... > Installing for x86_64-efi platform. > Could not delete variable:

Re: A thread on grub-bug could need attention

2018-01-30 Thread Daniel Kiper
On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 07:20:25PM +0100, Michel Bouissou wrote: > Hi again, > > Le 29/01/2018 ?? 16:29, Michel Bouissou a ??crit??: > > I created the USB stick per your instructions. I will try to give it a > > shot tonight on my son's machine. > > I tested the USB stick on my son's machine, and

Re: A thread on grub-bug could need attention

2018-01-30 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Daniel Kiper wrote: > IIRC you see blank screen after installing some distros. Right? It also does not work when booting the ISO images which shall install the systems. E.g. debian-9.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso : mount debian-9.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso /mnt/iso mount /mnt/iso/boot/grub/efi.img

Re: [PATCH] build: Use pkg-config to find Freetype

2018-01-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 06:35:11PM +0100, Daniel Kiper wrote: > On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 12:23:58PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > @@ -1542,8 +1539,6 @@ else > > enable_grub_mkfont=no > > fi > > AC_SUBST([enable_grub_mkfont]) > > -AC_SUBST([freetype_cflags]) > > -AC_SUBST([freetype_libs]) > >

[PATCH v2 1/2] build: Capitalise *freetype_* variables

2018-01-30 Thread Colin Watson
Using FREETYPE_CFLAGS and FREETYPE_LIBS is more in line with the naming scheme used by pkg-config macros. --- Makefile.am | 6 +++--- Makefile.util.def | 4 ++-- configure.ac | 24 3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) diff --git a/Makefile.am

[PATCH v2 2/2] build: Use pkg-config to find FreeType

2018-01-30 Thread Colin Watson
pkg-config is apparently preferred over freetype-config these days (see the BUGS section of freetype-config(1)). pkg-config support was added to FreeType in version 2.1.5, which was released in 2003, so it should comfortably be available everywhere by now. We no longer need to explicitly

[PATCH V2] sparc64: fix OF path names for sun4v systems

2018-01-30 Thread Eric Snowberg
Fix the Open Firmware (OF) path property for sun4v SPARC systems. These platforms do not have a /sas/ within their path. Over time different OF addressing schemes have been supported. There is no generic addressing scheme that works across every HBA. Signed-off-by: Eric Snowberg