Re: [PATCH] grub-install for EFI

[Robert Millan]

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 09:18:41PM +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 May 2007 08:25, Robert Millan wrote:
> > On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 10:16:11PM +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> > > On Friday 11 May 2007 18:03, Robert Millan wrote:
> > > > Please have a look at this patch that adds grub-install for EFI and
> > > > tell me what you think.  I have some doubts/comments myself, and I'll
> > > > reply to my own message to use the patch context.
> > >
> > > In my opinion, grub-install is not very useful without grub-setup.
> >
> > It saves a pair of things to the user (figuring out which modules are
> > needed, and what to do with the resulting grub.efi image).  From Debian
> > POV, it's very important so that grub installs can be automated from
> > debian-installer (without duplicating code, that is).
> 
> Providing a rudimentary tool rather harms the user.

What do you mean?  It's almost the same that the powerpc version does.

> > > As I
> > > haven't reverse-engineered "bless" yet, I don't know how to implement it.
> > > I guess it just modifies some bytes in a superblock or somewhere, though.
> >
> > What is bless needed for?  In my environment (Debian GNU/Linux on a qemu
> > sandbox with EFI firmware), it was not necessary to get grub.efi booting
> > (although later it had issues accessing filesystems other than the EFI
> > partition, but I suppose this might be a qemu/firmware bug).
> 
> http://www.hmug.org/man/8/bless.php

I see.. but user still can boot grub.efi manualy via EFI shell, right?

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