-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 5/17/2013 12:32 PM, Joseph Emenaker wrote: > True, looking back through it, I think I misinterpreted it. I took > the original idea to be "use the mode (UEFI vs BIOS) which was used > for this current boot session". You can generate a grub.cfg for > another system without needing to chroot. grub-mkconfig lets you > redirect the output to any file you want. So, what's to prevent a > user from booting a recovery CD and, without using chroot, using: > > grub-mkconfig -o /media/MyRealUbuntuPartition/boot/grub/grub.cfg
Nothing, just like nothing prevents you from dd'ing /dev/zero all over your drive. Don't do that. If you are trying to get a correct grub.cfg, then you have to chroot since grub-mkconfig generates a config to boot the system it finds in the current root. > But other OS's *can*. I can boot my linux partitions in UEFI or > BIOS mode. Furthermore, linux is what I turn to when I have trouble > booting any of my partitions. If I can just get to a linux prompt, > with fdisk/parted/grub/etc, then I can usually fix any other > booting problems. So, it would be helpful to be able to boot a > linux partition from BIOS mode if the EFI SP gets hosed. You can > choose not to support that; that's your choice, but I think there > are scenarios wherein it would be useful. Whether it is useful or not, it isn't related to the subject of this bug, which is booting windows. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJRlm98AAoJEJrBOlT6nu75uawIAMOaATtu9mdO/F7QcK/0uTIT pj726M/llhJiPLm9vuNKQCJnHkjP2suk+9Z1+DcelgkqlXc9QYINUXZpJdjQ2wbD iB2WpnIQrBt6yYHuewYtssW0VdM+wikc3z+2Q3JqjKsyFJHJZxfeesjTejK8zF1z ijXHdym9KtZrJXIU66VhrViI24fDOJRCr6mU/ncwdD2tkGXzkB5wbQpwy/18wh4G MB8hb61g7qW+WLlVJG/DP0M/7IjjLQWiUU3pdnz+EGes+tt760nFXI4HdKiUv6of nMvn1Mq6grq1W8tXfalfMCnD5SCvT+fvOzLHglyONzjjpR8KD/yuc0+e1Rh5Efk= =+ZQa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1024383 Title: update-grub generates only BIOS based menu entries for Windows, even on UEFI systems To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1024383/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
