Re: Password and key

2014-08-27 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Wed, 27 Aug 2014 13:29:17 +0200 Garreau\, Alexandre galex-...@galex-713.eu пишет: Hello, I’m trying to set up a secure —the most I can— X60t with libreboot on it and GRUB as a payload. GNUtoo recommended me to set a password to GRUB to stop potential attacker to execute any code on the

Re: Problem after update with grub and --unrestricted on i386

2014-09-13 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Fri, 05 Sep 2014 19:17:23 +0800 lukshun...@gmail.com пишет: On Friday, September 05, 2014 03:25 AM, Jordan Uggla wrote: On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 5:36 AM, Michael D. Setzer II mi...@kuentos.guam.net wrote: Most of my systems are x64 machines, but have 3 32 bit machines and on these after

Re: Disabling UUID in grub-mkconfig_lib

2014-09-13 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Mon, 08 Sep 2014 12:07:07 +1000 Carl Turney c...@boms.com.au пишет: Hello, and thanks in advance, * INTRO/EXPLANATION: * Although I have done some programming (only part-time, long ago, and in obsolete languages)... Currently I'm just a busy user (NOT an IT technician) and

Re: Disabling UUID in grub-mkconfig_lib

2014-09-13 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Sat, 13 Sep 2014 21:09:44 +0100 Simon Hobson li...@thehobsons.co.uk пишет: Andrei Borzenkov arvidj...@gmail.com wrote: What exactly do you mean under identify drives? If you mean kernel root=XXX parameter, just add (or change) GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true in /etc/default/grub

Re: Disabling UUID in grub-mkconfig_lib

2014-09-15 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Tue, 16 Sep 2014 09:14:47 +1000 Carl Turney c...@boms.com.au пишет: Hi Richard, Andrei, and Simon, Thanks for the helpful replies. Richard: I would have rewritten and resubmitted my question, but didn't get around to it. Andrei: So, if I just changed that =one= line in

Re: x64 UEFI Network boot configuration and targets?

2014-09-17 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Wed, 17 Sep 2014 15:58:31 -0600 Joseph Kelly dir...@gmail.com пишет: Hello, What I need: instructions for *configure* and *make* to compile grubnetx64.efi. I am attempting to compile a grubnetx64.efi boot image from the GRUB2 source code. I have attempted to write a custom

Re: Obtaining string results from http calls

2014-09-26 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Fri, 26 Sep 2014 15:30:46 -0600 Joseph Kelly dir...@gmail.com пишет: Hello, Can someone point me in a direction for correct usage of the HTTP module to help in returning strings? Is there any documentation for this online? I am using source code for Grub 2.02~beta2 I am attempting to

Re: Memory-mapped UART terminal

2014-10-09 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 12:27 AM, Andrew Wygle and...@planetaryresources.com wrote: Hello the list, I am bringing up a newer board which does not have its COM ports in the usual I/O ports. As far as I can tell, they are solely memory mapped. I am trying to get GRUB2's serial terminal

Re: GRUB for EFI is Complaining about the Absence of vbe.mod...

2014-10-15 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 В Wed, 15 Oct 2014 16:03:56 -0400 SevenBits sevenbitst...@gmail.com пишет: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, I'm in a bit of a predicament, and I hope that someone more skilled than I am can help. I'm compiling GRUB

Re: couldn't terminate EFI services error caused by buggy BIOS and the workaround

2014-10-26 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Mon, 27 Oct 2014 10:25:59 +0800 Wang Weber mail.weber.w...@gmail.com пишет: Hi, I am using grub-1.99 on a x86 platform. Please tets current GIT master, it should be fixed there. If not, report to grub-devel. The BIOS is originated from AMI and

Re: Getting the grub development source via git http

2014-10-28 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Tue, 28 Oct 2014 13:43:09 -0700 David Marx david.m.m...@oracle.com пишет: I'm trying to download the grub development tree. I believe the site I am coming from blocks the git ports, so I am trying to use http. I run the following. Am I running the git clone correctly? No.

Re: Environment variable access from theme pack

2014-10-29 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Tue, 28 Oct 2014 21:42:14 -0600 Joseph Kelly dir...@gmail.com пишет: I have grub2 served up from a PXE server. Is it possible to dynamically set the text of a theme by setting it to an environment variable? For example, if I wanted to set the title-text of a theme to ${pxe_default_mac}

Re: Grub2 : PXE : grub.cfg : setting default boot option to hotkey definition

2014-10-29 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Wed, 29 Oct 2014 14:35:35 -0600 Joseph Kelly dir...@gmail.com пишет: *Set up* I have grub2 served up from a linux PXE server. *Question* Is it possible to set the default option to a defined hotkey? *Use case* I have a menu set up with 20+ boot options and I want to move things around

Re: Grub2 plain dm-crypt support

2014-11-08 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Sat, 08 Nov 2014 20:48:55 + John Lane g...@jelmail.com пишет: Hello, I am trying to establish whether Grub2 can open a plain-mode dm-crypt volume. I have |grub-install (GRUB) 2.02~beta2| I can't find much information on the subject, the most recent I can see is a thread from a

Re: Cryptomount is blind (useless systematic check, lvm, etc.)

2014-11-09 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Sun, 09 Nov 2014 16:53:50 +0100 Garreau\, Alexandre galex-...@galex-713.eu пишет: Hello, I’ve got some problems with cryptomount, trying to make a superportable script that could automatically detect any sort of OS or bootable thing and offer options to boot it. I’ve encountered multiples

Re: grub renders png menu icons without semi-transparency

2014-11-09 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Sun, 9 Nov 2014 19:38:28 +0200 Alexander Shashkevych a...@stunpix.com пишет: Hello, I'm customizing my grub config to use my own theme. Theme contains menu icons with alpha channel and font was taken from other theme where it renders with antialiasing, but in my case everything is

Re: grub-install and setup for the grub2 builtin command line

2014-11-11 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Tue, 11 Nov 2014 15:02:16 +0300 intmai...@gmail.com intmai...@gmail.com пишет: Hello, I want to burn a cdrom boot loader that contains just the built in command line. For grub legacy I did it very well. Before making any cdrom I would want to know what is the equvalent of grub-install

Re: Grub2 plain dm-crypt support

2014-11-15 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Mon, 10 Nov 2014 11:43:02 + John Lane g...@jelmail.com пишет: On 09/11/14 19:31, Andrei Borzenkov wrote: Only the last commit which adds plain dm-crypt support is relevant. And it is pretty much independent of the rest of grub. I checked it out and tried unsuccessfully to build due

Re: Grub2 plain dm-crypt support

2014-11-18 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Tue, 18 Nov 2014 10:56:46 + John Lane g...@jelmail.com пишет: Here are patches that can be applied to master (004a2b1ef at time of writing this). 0001 is the result of merging branch peter/devmapper (e7f405abb) 0002 contains the changes that I made. I'm just sending this in case

Re: How to build grub-emu

2014-11-28 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Fri, 28 Nov 2014 11:14:08 + John Lane g...@jelmail.com пишет: I've looked for documentation explaining how to build grub-emu but haven't found any. I did look in INSTALL. Here's what I am doing, this is with a git clone of master. $ ./autogen.sh $ ./configure

Re: How to build grub-emu

2014-11-28 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Fri, 28 Nov 2014 15:09:42 + John Lane g...@jelmail.com пишет: error: can't open `/boot/grub/fonts/unicode.pf2': No such file or directory. You need extra dependencies to create font unicode.pf2. Do you have grub-mkfont binary created? If not, configure should have said in summary

Re: machine hang after running module2 /vmlinuz command

2014-11-28 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Mon, 24 Nov 2014 17:41:29 + Sun, Ning ning@intel.com пишет: Hi, Anyone has experienced this similar situation: running module2 /vmlinuz caused machine hang? Please give more details - grub version, grub platform? Are you trying to boot Xen?

Re: grub-mkconfig does not generate menuentries when a /boot is on a logical volume

2014-11-29 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Sat, 29 Nov 2014 12:53:19 +0100 Arbiel Perlacremaz arbiel.perlacre...@gmx.fr пишет: Hi grub is supposed to manage logical volumes. I've installed an OS with /boot on a regular logical volume and /, /usr and /home on a crypted logical volume. To be more accurate, I first had /boot on a

Re: machine hang after running module2 /vmlinuz command

2014-11-29 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Sat, 29 Nov 2014 17:56:27 + Sun, Ning ning@intel.com пишет: my platform is x86 64bit LINUX, GRUB2.0, want to load kernel as a module. Why do you need to load it as a module? Regards, Sun Ning Original message From: Andrei Borzenkov arvidj...@gmail.com

Re: how to install the bootloader

2014-11-30 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Sun, 30 Nov 2014 02:10:08 +0100 Reinhard Kotucha reinhard.kotu...@web.de пишет: Hi, I'm running Gentoo Linux and used rsync in order to create backups on another disk. The content of the backup disk is exactly the same as on my working disk. And I installed a boot loader on the bachup

Re: proper way to install to partition

2014-12-02 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Tue, 02 Dec 2014 19:51:13 +0100 Tomas Cech tc...@suse.cz пишет: Hi, during my experiments with Guix I run into problems with GRUB. I'm trying to install GRUB into partition with EXT4 filesystem containing Guix. How can I do it properly? I can't find any relevant documentation to this

Re: proper way to install to partition

2014-12-03 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Wed, 03 Dec 2014 23:29:42 +0100 Tomas Cech tc...@suse.cz пишет: At Wed, 3 Dec 2014 13:30:14 -0800, Jordan Uggla wrote: On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 10:51 AM, Tomas Cech tc...@suse.cz wrote: Hi, during my experiments with Guix I run into problems with GRUB. I'm trying to install

Re: machine hang after running module2 /vmlinuz command

2014-12-04 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
) available somewhere? They could trigger some bugs, but it is impossible to fix without reproducing them. Regards, Sun Ning -Original Message- From: Andrei Borzenkov [mailto:arvidj...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2014 11:59 AM To: Sun, Ning Cc: help-grub@gnu.org Subject

Re: machine hang after running module2 /vmlinuz command

2014-12-04 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
- From: help-grub-bounces+ning.sun=intel@gnu.org [mailto:help-grub-bounces+ning.sun=intel@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Andrei Borzenkov Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2014 10:02 AM To: Sun, Ning Cc: help-grub@gnu.org Subject: Re: machine hang after running module2 /vmlinuz command В Thu

Re: GRUB2 support for map() and liveswap

2014-12-09 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Tue, 9 Dec 2014 05:51:22 -0500 Mellissa Dalby mellissa.da...@gmail.com пишет: Hi GRUB community, GRUB has become my Bootloader of choice. I do like the development progression of GRUB2 but I STILL NEED map() and liveswap Could you explain what they do? Any links to description or

Re: GRUB2 support for map() and liveswap

2014-12-09 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
, but drivemap command in grub2 should do what you need. drivemap -s (hd0) (hd1) Somehow fools the BIOS into believing /dev/sdb1 is actually /dev/sda1. I don't know how it does that because I never fetched the legacy GRUB source code. On Dec 9, 2014, at 13:23, Andrei Borzenkov arvidj

Re: Grub2 plain dm-crypt support

2014-12-10 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Wed, 10 Dec 2014 10:28:06 + John Lane g...@jelmail.com пишет: On 18/11/14 19:22, Andrei Borzenkov wrote: В Tue, 18 Nov 2014 10:56:46 + John Lane g...@jelmail.com пишет: Here are patches that can be applied to master (004a2b1ef at time of writing this). 0001 is the result

Re: ext4 filesystem not recognised on new LVM volume

2014-12-15 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 2:14 PM, John Lane g...@jelmail.com wrote: I have this weird problem occurring today. I have a disk that has LVM on it with a number of logical volumes containing ext4 filesystems. Grub has been able to see this disk and detect the ext4 filesystems without issue.

Re: ext4 filesystem not recognised on new LVM volume

2014-12-15 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 3:51 PM, John Lane g...@jelmail.com wrote: On 15/12/14 12:27, John Lane wrote: I'm going to wipe the disk and start over and see if I can reproduce it. Ok, I believe this is a 2TiB issue. I just wiped the disk, created a new PV on it and created 3 LVs on the PV.

Re: ext4 filesystem not recognised on new LVM volume

2014-12-17 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 5:41 PM, John Lane g...@jelmail.com wrote: On 15/12/14 13:28, Andrei Borzenkov wrote: On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 3:51 PM, John Lane g...@jelmail.com wrote: On 15/12/14 12:27, John Lane wrote: I'm going to wipe the disk and start over and see if I can reproduce it. Ok

Re: ext4 filesystem not recognised on new LVM volume

2014-12-17 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Wed, 17 Dec 2014 15:42:02 + John Lane g...@jelmail.com пишет: On 17/12/14 15:03, Andrei Borzenkov wrote: On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 5:41 PM, John Lane g...@jelmail.com wrote: On 15/12/14 13:28, Andrei Borzenkov wrote: On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 3:51 PM, John Lane g...@jelmail.com wrote

Re: ext4 filesystem not recognised on new LVM volume

2014-12-17 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Wed, 17 Dec 2014 19:50:22 + John Lane g...@jelmail.com пишет: Yes, I've been testing with a 4TB ST4000VN000 which has 4k sectors. Could you show ls -l grub output? I'm interested in sector size and total size it reports for this disk. ___

Re: GRUB crypto? ( generally, more info on undocumented modules?)

2014-12-18 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Thu, 18 Dec 2014 16:52:46 -0800 Jordan Uggla jordan.ug...@gmail.com пишет: Grub can read files from LUKS and GELI volumes, but only FreeBSD's kernel currently has a protocol for passing credentials from grub to the kernel, so if you're using GNU/Linux and you use grub's LUKS support to

Re: Using grub-mkimage -c for a USB holding multiple /boot partitions.

2014-12-18 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Thu, 18 Dec 2014 17:45:24 -0800 Diagon gnu@niwas.net пишет: On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 16:31:23 -0800 Jordan Uggla jordan.ug...@gmail.com wrote On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 12:35 PM, Diagon gnu@niwas.net wrote: I see that I can install a config file into grub, using

Re: ext4 filesystem not recognised on new LVM volume

2014-12-18 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Thu, 18 Dec 2014 09:22:41 + John Lane g...@jelmail.com пишет: On 18/12/14 03:45, Andrei Borzenkov wrote: В Wed, 17 Dec 2014 19:50:22 + John Lane g...@jelmail.com пишет: Yes, I've been testing with a 4TB ST4000VN000 which has 4k sectors. Could you show ls -l grub output? I'm

Re: Using grub-mkimage -c for a USB holding multiple /boot partitions.

2014-12-19 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Thu, 18 Dec 2014 23:22:37 -0800 Diagon gnu@niwas.net пишет: and is autogenerated. If you want to create standalone bootloader image, use grub-mkstandalone. Ok, I'm taking a look. That's in the man pages, but not in the v.2.02 info docs that I can find. It seems the

Re: GRUB crypto? ( generally, more info on undocumented modules?)

2014-12-19 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Thu, 18 Dec 2014 23:28:08 -0800 Diagon gnu@niwas.net пишет: On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 22:15:32 -0800 Andrei Borzenkovarvidj...@gmail.com wrote В Thu, 18 Dec 2014 16:52:46 -0800 Jordan Uggla jordan.ug...@gmail.com пишет: Grub can read files from LUKS and GELI volumes,

Re: Grub2 efi compiling

2014-12-29 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Mon, 29 Dec 2014 19:22:42 +0100 nutrinf...@gmx.com пишет: Hi, I use grub from debian on my tablet and it works fine (altough it need external keyboard to select menu entries). I'm trying to recompile grub-1.99 from debian source. I'd like add tablet keys up/down to select grub menu

Re: Grub install fails on single boot Mint 17, 3TB RAID1, GPT EFI

2015-01-02 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Fri, 2 Jan 2015 09:35:55 -0800 (PST) j...@hjlboyce.org пишет: If you have a good reference that explicitly statea and describes why the EFI boot partition can not be on software raid I would be interested in reading more about this. It's not really that it cannot be; it is just that I

Re: Loading different kernels based on platform identification (DMI)

2015-01-23 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Fri, 23 Jan 2015 14:44:59 + Rajat Jain rajatj...@juniper.net пишет: Hello, I have a case of a hot-pluggable USB stick that can be put in multiple systems to boot. The USB stick has grub installed and a couple of different kernels. My Goal is to write a grub script that: -

Re: Example for grub-mkimage grub-setup

2015-01-23 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Fri, 23 Jan 2015 12:38:04 +0100 Truth tru...@gmx.de пишет: ... I was able to solve the above mentioned problem by starting from scratch but I still would like to understand (in more detail) how grub is working. For that reason I was asking for an example on how to build grub with

Re: Grub2 install with / on lvm

2015-02-07 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Wed, 4 Feb 2015 13:57:59 -0800 (PST) j...@hjlboyce.org пишет: Greetings - I have been experimenting with an Linux Mint 17 installation for my desktop system. This is on a new Dell Precision 3610. After having difficulties getting the Mint installation to complete (grub2 install

Re: Kernel Loading and the Root Environment Variable

2015-02-07 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Fri, 6 Feb 2015 15:36:55 -0500 Poisson Aerohead poisson.aeroh...@gmail.com пишет: Hi all! This may be more appropriate for the dev mailing list. If so, please let me know. I have been playing a lot with multibooting, basically a to see if I can do it project while getting exposed to both

Re: Hard limit for size of initrd (the initrd is too big)

2015-02-07 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Tue, 3 Feb 2015 22:00:58 + Eric Ewanco eric.ewa...@genband.com пишет: We have a special application (GNU/Linux 3.4.47, x86_64, BIOS, PXE, OpenSuSE grub2-2.00-1.6.1) that requires large initrds. We are approaching the 462M size limit that appears to exist on our architecture. Since we

Re: Grub2 install with / on lvm

2015-02-07 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Sat, 7 Feb 2015 09:03:38 -0800 (PST) j...@hjlboyce.org пишет: Ok, I learned something new here. What would be a better choice for the filesystem for /boot. I am using xfs for everything else. I usually use ext2 if it is separate partition. Otherwise xfs should work if /boot is not

Re: Grub2 : PXE : grub.cfg : setting net_efinet1_boot_file variable?

2015-01-15 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Thu, 15 Jan 2015 10:24:42 -0700 Joseph Kelly dir...@gmail.com пишет: Hello, I am attempting to launch WinPE from Grub2 over PXE. Only grub itself is loaded over PXE. What grub does after it has been loaded has little to do with PXE. I have tracked the problem down to the PXE client

Re: Example for grub-mkimage grub-setup

2015-01-19 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 10:51 AM, Truth tru...@gmx.de wrote: Thanks for the quick reply. In order to learn more about grub I intend to write a live-debian as well as an installer-image (e.g. DVD size) on an USB-stick which is able to boot from both legacy bios and UEFI. While trying to do

Re: Example for grub-mkimage grub-setup

2015-01-18 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Sun, 18 Jan 2015 14:14:38 +0100 Truth tru...@gmx.de пишет: I would like to install grub2 to a USB-stick (e.g. /dev/sdb). From the grub.info I've learned that/... `grub-install' is actually just a shell script no more. and thereal task is done by `grub-mkimage' and

Re: Grub2 install with / on lvm

2015-02-11 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Wed, 11 Feb 2015 09:24:01 -0800 (PST) j...@hjlboyce.org пишет: Well if you are confused, then that leaves me completely clueless. I have not changed anything on the system since I started this thread. I just rebooted the system again and it goes straight to a grub prompt. I can get it

Re: Cannot boot from dual bios/uefi boot CD

2015-02-11 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Wed, 11 Feb 2015 19:12:54 +0400 John Frankish john.frank...@outlook.com пишет: On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 10:30 AM, John Frankish john.frank...@outlook.com wrote: Hi, I'm trying the create a dual bios/uefi boot iso to burn to

Re: Grub2 install with / on lvm

2015-02-11 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
-Original Message- From: Andrei Borzenkov arvidj...@gmail.com Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 11:10am To: j...@hjlboyce.org Cc: help-grub@gnu.org Subject: Re: Grub2 install with / on lvm В Wed, 11 Feb 2015 09:24:01 -0800 (PST) j...@hjlboyce.org пишет: Well if you

Re: Grub2 install with / on lvm

2015-02-11 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Wed, 11 Feb 2015 12:47:06 -0800 (PST) j...@hjlboyce.org пишет: The quick work around you suggested did not work. The result of that was when booting it would display several lines of an error message failure reading sector x?x?x?x from hd1. These several lines would alternately display

Re: Tool to test/preview Grub2 themes?

2015-02-16 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Mon, 16 Feb 2015 14:30:08 +0100 Sebastian Pipping sebast...@pipping.org пишет: Hello Andrei, On 11.02.2015 07:31, Andrei Borzenkov wrote: Dropping super-user requirement would be useful. You can build rescue CD using grub-mkrescue that does not require any root and QEMU itself

Re: Cannot boot from dual bios/uefi boot CD

2015-01-28 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 11:44 AM, John Frankish john.frank...@outlook.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 10:30 AM, John Frankish john.frank...@outlook.com wrote: Hi, I'm trying the create a dual bios/uefi boot iso to burn to CD/DVD and boot both bios and uefi. And your grub version

Re: Cannot boot from dual bios/uefi boot CD

2015-01-28 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 10:30 AM, John Frankish john.frank...@outlook.com wrote: Hi, I'm trying the create a dual bios/uefi boot iso to burn to CD/DVD and boot both bios and uefi. And your grub version is? The bios boot works fine On two different machines, the uefi boot gets to the grub

Re: Cannot boot from dual bios/uefi boot CD

2015-01-28 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 2:15 PM, John Frankish john.frank...@outlook.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 10:30 AM, John Frankish john.frank...@outlook.com wrote: Hi, I'm trying the create a dual bios/uefi boot iso to burn to CD/DVD and boot both bios and uefi. And your grub

Re: Cannot boot from dual bios/uefi boot CD

2015-01-31 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Sat, 31 Jan 2015 11:21:51 +0400 John Frankish john.frank...@outlook.com пишет: On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 10:30 AM, John Frankish john.frank...@outlook.com wrote: Hi, I'm trying the create a dual bios/uefi boot iso to burn to CD/DVD and boot both bios and

Re: Cannot boot from dual bios/uefi boot CD

2015-01-30 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 5:10 PM, John Frankish john.frank...@outlook.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 10:30 AM, John Frankish john.frank...@outlook.com wrote: Hi, I'm trying the create a dual bios/uefi boot iso to burn to CD/DVD and boot both bios and uefi. And your

Re: Official way of enabling USB on grub 2.02?

2015-01-11 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Sat, 10 Jan 2015 06:14:02 +0100 adrian15 adrian15...@gmail.com пишет: El 09/01/15 a las 07:10, Andrei Borzenkov escribió: В Fri, 09 Jan 2015 02:45:40 +0100 adrian15 adrian15...@gmail.com пишет: I'm having problems using my old commands (from grub 2.00) for enabling USB when using

Re: Official way of enabling USB on grub 2.02?

2015-01-11 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Sat, 10 Jan 2015 06:57:25 +0100 adrian15 adrian15...@gmail.com пишет: I have just found out that I am supposed to run nativedisk command with modules as arguments. It has default list of modules to load if no argument is provided. Well, this is not working very well. At least it's not

Re: Tool to test/preview Grub2 themes?

2015-01-11 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Mon, 12 Jan 2015 02:47:42 +0100 Sebastian Pipping sebast...@pipping.org пишет: Hello! I am wondering if there is a tool for Grub2 theme creators that they could run to see their theme in action * without rebooting their machine for each iteration or * need to prepare bootable

Re: grub access bios setting

2015-01-08 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Fri, 9 Jan 2015 01:59:41 + Bizhan Gholikhamseh (bgholikh) bghol...@cisco.com пишет: Hi. Could grub access any of bios setting? I need a way to set a flag in bios setting during boot process. This has to occur before kernel boots. Not that I'm aware of. Also I do not think there is

Re: Grub2 install with / on lvm

2015-02-09 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
? What is content of /boot/efi/ubuntu? Could you show efibootmgr -v output (I probably should add it to bootinfoscript ...)? Jeff -Original Message- From: Andrei Borzenkov arvidj...@gmail.com Sent: Saturday, February 7, 2015 9:15am To: j...@hjlboyce.org Cc: help-grub@gnu.org Subject

Re: error: no such disk

2015-02-14 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Sat, 14 Feb 2015 18:08:17 + Chris Fisichella ch...@communityrenewables.com пишет: Quoting Andrei Borzenkov arvidj...@gmail.com: В Sat, 14 Feb 2015 04:49:18 + Chris Fisichella ch...@communityrenewables.com пишет: Hi, I went through the archives and tried to apply

Re: Cannot boot from dual bios/uefi boot CD

2015-02-10 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Sun, 1 Feb 2015 11:21:23 +0400 John Frankish john.frank...@outlook.com пишет: On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 10:30 AM, John Frankish john.frank...@outlook.com wrote: Hi, I'm trying the create a dual bios/uefi boot iso to burn to CD/DVD and boot both

Re: Grub2 install with / on lvm

2015-02-10 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
after being off all weekend. I hope that answers your question, if not I am not sure of the question. Now I'm a bit confused. Your configuration looks OK. Do you have any issues booting right now? Jeff -Original Message- From: Andrei Borzenkov arvidj...@gmail.com Sent

Re: Tool to test/preview Grub2 themes?

2015-02-10 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Mon, 12 Jan 2015 15:18:04 +0100 Sebastian Pipping sebast...@pipping.org пишет: Hello again! On 12.01.2015 04:18, Andrei Borzenkov wrote: I am wondering if there is a tool for Grub2 theme creators that they could run to see their theme in action * without rebooting their machine

Re: error: no such disk

2015-02-13 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Sat, 14 Feb 2015 04:49:18 + Chris Fisichella ch...@communityrenewables.com пишет: Hi, I went through the archives and tried to apply the commands contained there in. I still can't get grub to hand off the computer to Debian 7.8.0. The install is all files in one partition Indeed,

Re: Grub on Partitionless Full Disk LVM

2015-02-15 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Sat, 14 Feb 2015 22:35:30 -0500 Dylan Taft dylanet...@gmail.com пишет: Before I go crazy with this, http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2013-09/msg00113.html this patch would also probably solve the issue. Is support for something like that already upstream? LVM can leave enough

Re: Installing Grub2 To Manage Window 8+ Systems

2015-03-18 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 9:51 PM, Marion Smith msm...@prg.com wrote: Our company rents hundreds of computers to clients for short term events. The networks can be as large as 200+ laptops per event. To easily deploy these laptops we created years ago a Grub Legacy solution that lets us boot to

Re: grub2-mkconfig question?

2015-03-15 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Sun, 15 Mar 2015 21:52:36 +1000 Michael D. Setzer II mi...@kuentos.guam.net пишет: Have Lenova machine that have two windows 7 partitions, the first being there recover partition, and the second being the real windows 7. When running grub2-mkconfig it creates entries for both, which

Re: Query about GRUB comand line functionality

2015-03-09 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Mon, 9 Mar 2015 15:11:22 +0800 Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com пишет: Now, the question becomes, given that the now disabled/overridden GRUB bootloader has apparently been located in the Ubuntu installation in (apparently) partition 12 of the HDD, how do I disable the BSD bootloader and

Re: Query about command line commands

2015-03-09 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Mon, 9 Mar 2015 16:17:16 +0800 Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com пишет: Hello. On a problem system, I have GNU GRUB version 2.02~beta2 as shown in the command line window. The system is a UEFI/GPT system. Three or four operating systems are apparently more or less installed on the

Re: Query about GRUB comand line functionality

2015-03-09 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Mon, 9 Mar 2015 16:38:58 +0800 Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com пишет: On 09/03/2015, Andrei Borzenkov arvidj...@gmail.com wrote: В Mon, 9 Mar 2015 15:11:22 +0800 Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com пишет: Now, the question becomes, given that the now disabled/overridden GRUB bootloader

Re: Grub2 booting Dell Diagnostics

2015-03-06 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 1:07 PM, Barry Jackson zen25...@zen.co.uk wrote: On 06/03/15 03:31, Andrei Borzenkov wrote: grub-probe -t fs_uuid /dev/sda1 Ole - that's grub2-probe in Mageia, however here it fails: grub2-probe: error: failed to get canonical path of `devtmpfs'. Is should be grub2

Re: Grub2 booting Dell Diagnostics

2015-03-07 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Thu, 05 Mar 2015 19:56:36 +0100 Ole Reier Ulland ole.re...@netcom.no пишет: I have sent this e-mail to disc...@ml.mageia.org without getting any useful replies, so now I try this e-mail-address. The computer is a Dell Dimension 8300, with a SATA HDD with Grub2, Linux and data partition,

Re: Grub2 booting Dell Diagnostics

2015-03-05 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Thu, 05 Mar 2015 19:56:36 +0100 Ole Reier Ulland ole.re...@netcom.no пишет: Grub2 produces an option for booting Windows in the menu that is not in the /boot/grub2/custom.cfg file. What I have done is to make a copy of the automatically produced menu entry and made one myself in the

Re: Query about command line commands

2015-03-10 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Tue, 10 Mar 2015 14:46:46 +0800 Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com пишет: How do you get this grub command line interface? Does your system boot into it? By pressing ESC while booting, to display the PC-BSD boot menu (which displays as the only boot option, the unbootable PC-BSD

Re: Query about command line commands

2015-03-09 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 12:01 PM, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/03/2015, Andrei Borzenkov arvidj...@gmail.com wrote: В Mon, 9 Mar 2015 16:17:16 +0800 Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com пишет: Hello. On a problem system, I have GNU GRUB version 2.02~beta2 as shown in the command

Re: Query about GRUB comand line functionality

2015-03-09 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 12:17 PM, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/03/2015, Andrei Borzenkov arvidj...@gmail.com wrote: В Mon, 9 Mar 2015 16:38:58 +0800 Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com пишет: On 09/03/2015, Andrei Borzenkov arvidj...@gmail.com wrote: В Mon, 9 Mar 2015 15:11:22

Re: Destroyed Entries at /dev/sda - boot not possible anymore

2015-03-30 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 12:30 PM, Stefan Lamby webmas...@peter-speer.de wrote: Hello list. I wanted to install kubuntu 14.04 on a USB-Stick which was mounted as /dev/sdbX at my productive laptop which uses /dev/sdaX. I choosed all options regarding to /dev/sdb but after install my laptop

Re: Destroyed Entries at /dev/sda - boot not possible anymore

2015-03-30 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 3:48 PM, Stefan Lamby webmas...@peter-speer.de wrote: Andrei Borzenkov arvidj...@gmail.com hat am 30. März 2015 um 14:12 geschrieben: On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 3:06 PM, Stefan Lamby webmas...@peter-speer.de wrote: Andrei Borzenkov arvidj...@gmail.com hat am 30

Re: Destroyed Entries at /dev/sda - boot not possible anymore

2015-03-30 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 2:29 PM, Stefan Lamby webmas...@peter-speer.de wrote: ... There was no error, since grub seems to do everything it was told to. The error was that it booted from usb stick instead of my laptops hard disk. My fault was, that I didn't expect /dev/sda to be overwritten

Re: OldWorld NetBootIng

2015-03-30 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Mon, 30 Mar 2015 09:33:58 -0600 Ben Hildred 426...@gmail.com пишет: Old world macs do not work with grub. I thought powerpc-ieee1275 platform is exactly for old world macs. they do not have OpenFirmware, Again, I naively thought that PowerPC macs had

Re: correct grub2 menuentry stanza for chainloading xen.efi?

2015-03-30 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Mon, 30 Mar 2015 10:55:37 -0700 lynd...@your-mail.com пишет: It would be search --fs-uuid 94C3-29F3 --set :) I'm serious. It avoids all issues with case-insensitive/case-preserving filesystem and grub should still open file using both names. Avoiding the issue works around it

Re: correct grub2 menuentry stanza for chainloading xen.efi?

2015-03-30 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Mon, 30 Mar 2015 10:38:08 -0600 Ben Hildred 426...@gmail.com пишет: menuentry 'Xen' { insmod part_gpt gpt insmod diskfilter mdraid1x insmod ext2 insmod search_fs_uuid insmod chain

Re: Destroyed Entries at /dev/sda - boot not possible anymore

2015-03-31 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 1:24 PM, Stefan Lamby webmas...@peter-speer.de wrote: root@kubuntu:~# mount -r /dev/sda1 /mnt root@kubuntu:~# ls -lR /mnt /mnt: total 4 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Feb 21 18:40 EFI /mnt/EFI: total 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 21 18:40 ubuntu /mnt/EFI/ubuntu:

Re: Destroyed Entries at /dev/sda - boot not possible anymore

2015-03-31 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 3:21 PM, Stefan Lamby webmas...@peter-speer.de wrote: root@kubuntu:~# blkid /dev/sda2: UUID=708071fb-bf40-4e1e-99fe-d82213fd7364 TYPE=ext2 /dev/sda3: UUID=6118b2b9-788b-409f-ba00-baaff583a397 TYPE=crypto_LUKS So it appears your original installation using encrypted

Re: Destroyed Entries at /dev/sda - boot not possible anymore

2015-03-31 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 3:59 PM, Andrei Borzenkov arvidj...@gmail.com wrote: OK, so grub.cfg on /dev/sda1 refers to /dev/sdb2. Am I right that /dev/sda1 is your original /boot? Oops. /dev/sda2 of course. Could you show its listing? mount -r /dev/sdb2 /mnt - scratch it mount -r /dev/sda2

Re: Destroyed Entries at /dev/sda - boot not possible anymore

2015-03-31 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 4:17 PM, Stefan Lamby webmas...@peter-speer.de wrote: OK, so grub.cfg on /dev/sda1 refers to /dev/sdb2. Am I right that /dev/sda1 is your original /boot? Yes, sda is the hd used originally. ... root@kubuntu:~# mount -r /dev/sda2 /mnt root@kubuntu:~# ls -l /mnt/

Re: Destroyed Entries at /dev/sda - boot not possible anymore

2015-04-01 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 10:04 AM, Andrei Borzenkov arvidj...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 7:00 PM, Stefan Lamby s...@lamby.de wrote: You made it, thank you so much! I was able to boot into my original installation. Would you please guide me and help me with persisting it? When I

Re: Destroyed Entries at /dev/sda - boot not possible anymore

2015-04-01 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 7:00 PM, Stefan Lamby s...@lamby.de wrote: You made it, thank you so much! I was able to boot into my original installation. Would you please guide me and help me with persisting it? When I reboot the machine I have to enter it all again at the grub cli. How could

Re: Using a master grub2 in UEFI

2015-03-29 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Sat, 28 Mar 2015 23:27:23 + Barry Jackson zen25...@zen.co.uk пишет: Hi, In PC-BIOS I have always used a separate partition with it's own install of grub2 to boot into core.img of various grub2 based linux installations. I am now trying to do the same with UEFI and have hit several

Re: Cannot boot from dual bios/uefi boot CD

2015-02-27 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Sat, 28 Feb 2015 09:01:43 +0400 John Frankish john.frank...@outlook.com пишет: I ran the following: $ sudo x86_64-grub-mkrescue --modules=iso9660 fshelp loadbios part_msdos part_gpt normal terminal crypto extcmd boot gettext linux video relocator mmap font bufio

Re: Cannot boot from dual bios/uefi boot CD

2015-02-28 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
В Sat, 28 Feb 2015 11:30:59 +0400 John Frankish john.frank...@outlook.com пишет: At which point I have to remind you that I never told you to use --modules in the first place :) You somehow insist on it, for reasons I do not understand. The reason is that, if I don't do this, mkrescue

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