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Daniel Kiper
30c4e3ca40 docs: Fix devicetree command description
Specifically fix the subsection and drop bogus reference to the GNU/Linux.

Reported-by: Patrick Higgins <higgi1pt@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
2020-09-18 21:20:43 +02:00
Jacob Kroon
5ab40eb9f7 docs/grub: Support for probing partition UUID on MSDOS disks
Support was implemented in commit c7cb11b21 (probe: Support probing for
msdos PARTUUID).

Signed-off-by: Jacob Kroon <jacob.kroon@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2020-05-15 15:27:58 +02:00
Hans Ulrich Niedermann
2f317c8f19 docs: Remove docs for non-existing uppermem command
Remove all documentation of and mentions of the uppermem
command from the docs/grub.texi file.

The uppermem command is not implemented in the GRUB source
at all and appears to never have been implemented despite
former plans to add an uppermem command.

To reduce user confusion, this even removes the paragraph
describing how GRUB's uppermem command was supposed to
complement the Linux kernel's mem= parameter.

Signed-off-by: Hans Ulrich Niedermann <hun@n-dimensional.de>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2020-05-15 15:23:00 +02:00
Hans Ulrich Niedermann
f7dcb6a5c2 docs: Remove docs for non-existing pxe_unload command
Remove the documentation of the pxe_unload command from the
docs/grub.texi file.

The pxe_unload command is not implemented in the grub source
at this time at all. It appears to have been removed in commit
671a78acb (cleanup pxe and efi network release).

Signed-off-by: Hans Ulrich Niedermann <hun@n-dimensional.de>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2020-05-15 15:20:55 +02:00
Hans de Goede
12341958d2 kern/term: Accept ESC, F4 and holding SHIFT as user interrupt keys
On some devices the ESC key is the hotkey to enter the BIOS/EFI setup
screen, making it really hard to time pressing it right. Besides that
ESC is also pretty hard to discover for a user who does not know it
will unhide the menu.

This commit makes F4, which was chosen because is not used as a hotkey
to enter the BIOS setup by any vendor, also interrupt sleeps / stop the
menu countdown.

This solves the ESC gets into the BIOS setup and also somewhat solves
the discoverability issue, but leaves the timing issue unresolved.

This commit fixes the timing issue by also adding support for keeping
SHIFT pressed during boot to stop the menu countdown. This matches
what Ubuntu is doing, which should also help with discoverability.

Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2020-04-21 22:13:44 +02:00
Paul Menzel
b0c7769a41 docs/grub: Fix typo in *preferred*
Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2020-04-21 22:03:09 +02:00
Michael Chang
5e5a47b8a7 docs: Document notes on LVM cache booting
Add notes on LVM cache booting to the GRUB manual to help user understanding
the outstanding issue and status.

Signed-off-by: Michael Chang <mchang@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2020-03-31 12:01:41 +02:00
Colin Watson
ac116bd659 gettext: Restore patches to po/Makefile.in.in
These were inadvertently lost during the conversion to Gnulib (gnulib:
Upgrade Gnulib and switch to bootstrap tool; commit 35b909062). The
files in po/gettext-patches/ can be imported using "git am" on top of
the gettext tag corresponding to AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION in configure.ac
(currently 0.18.3). They handle translation of messages in shell files,
make msgfmt output in little-endian format, and arrange to use @SHELL@
rather than /bin/sh.

There were some changes solely for the purpose of distributing extra
files; for ease of maintenance, I've added these to
conf/Makefile.extra-dist instead.

Fixes: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?57298

Signed-off-by: Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2020-03-10 21:17:54 +01:00
Robert Marshall
9f03dc5d7b docs: Update info with grub.cfg netboot selection order
Add documentation to the GRUB manual that specifies the order netboot
clients use to select a GRUB configuration file.

Also explain that the feature is enabled by default but can be disabled
by setting the "feature_net_search_cfg" environment variable to "n" in
an embedded configuration file.

Signed-off-by: Robert Marshall <rmarshall@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2020-02-18 15:12:07 +01:00
Peter Jones
3165efcfc2 minilzo: Update to minilzo-2.08
This patch updates the miniLZO library to a newer version, which among other
things fixes "CVE-2014-4607 - lzo: lzo1x_decompress_safe() integer overflow"
that is present in the current used in GRUB.

It also updates the "GRUB Developers Manual", to mention that the library is
used and describes the process to update it to a newer release when needed.

Resolves: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?42635

Signed-off-by: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2020-02-11 21:30:30 +01:00
Patrick Steinhardt
365e0cc3e7 disk: Implement support for LUKS2
With cryptsetup 2.0, a new version of LUKS was introduced that breaks
compatibility with the previous version due to various reasons. GRUB
currently lacks any support for LUKS2, making it impossible to decrypt
disks encrypted with that version. This commit implements support for
this new format.

Note that LUKS1 and LUKS2 are quite different data formats. While they
do share the same disk signature in the first few bytes, representation
of encryption parameters is completely different between both versions.
While the former version one relied on a single binary header, only,
LUKS2 uses the binary header only in order to locate the actual metadata
which is encoded in JSON. Furthermore, the new data format is a lot more
complex to allow for more flexible setups, like e.g. having multiple
encrypted segments and other features that weren't previously possible.
Because of this, it was decided that it doesn't make sense to keep both
LUKS1 and LUKS2 support in the same module and instead to implement it
in two different modules luks and luks2.

The proposed support for LUKS2 is able to make use of the metadata to
decrypt such disks. Note though that in the current version, only the
PBKDF2 key derival function is supported. This can mostly attributed to
the fact that the libgcrypt library currently has no support for either
Argon2i or Argon2id, which are the remaining KDFs supported by LUKS2. It
wouldn't have been much of a problem to bundle those algorithms with
GRUB itself, but it was decided against that in order to keep down the
number of patches required for initial LUKS2 support. Adding it in the
future would be trivial, given that the code structure is already in
place.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2020-01-10 14:30:24 +01:00
Patrick Steinhardt
528938d503 json: Import upstream jsmn-1.1.0
The upcoming support for LUKS2 encryption will require a JSON parser to
decode all parameters required for decryption of a drive. As there is
currently no other tool that requires JSON, and as gnulib does not
provide a parser, we need to introduce a new one into the code base. The
backend for the JSON implementation is going to be the jsmn library [1].
It has several benefits that make it a very good fit for inclusion in
GRUB:

    - It is licensed under MIT.
    - It is written in C89.
    - It has no dependencies, not even libc.
    - It is small with only about 500 lines of code.
    - It doesn't do any dynamic memory allocation.
    - It is testen on x86, amd64, ARM and AVR.

The library itself comes as a single header, only, that contains both
declarations and definitions. The exposed interface is kind of
simplistic, though, and does not provide any convenience features
whatsoever. Thus there will be a separate interface provided by GRUB
around this parser that is going to be implemented in the following
commit. This change only imports jsmn.h from tag v1.1.0 and adds it
unmodified to a new json module with the following command:

curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zserge/jsmn/v1.1.0/jsmn.h \
    -o grub-core/lib/json/jsmn.h

Upstream jsmn commit hash: fdcef3ebf886fa210d14956d3c068a653e76a24e
Upstream jsmn commit name: Modernize (#149), 2019-04-20

[1]: https://github.com/zserge/jsmn

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2020-01-10 14:12:12 +01:00
Paul Menzel
7e28ca82bb docs: Export "superusers" variable to apply to submenus
Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2019-12-20 20:35:21 +01:00
Peter Jones
b78d570a36 templates: Add GRUB_DISABLE_UUID
The grub-mkconfig and 10_linux scripts by default attempt to use a UUID to
set the root kernel command line parameter and the $root GRUB environment
variable.

The former can be disabled by setting the GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID variable
to "true", but there is currently no way to disable the latter.

The generated grub config uses the search command with the --fs-uuid option
to find the device that has to be set as $root, i.e:

 search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root ...

This is usually more reliable but in some cases it may not be appropriate,
so this patch introduces a new GRUB_DISABLE_UUID variable that can be used
to disable searching for the $root device by filesystem UUID.

When disabled, the $root device will be set to the value specified in the
device.map as found by the grub-probe --target=compatibility_hint option.

When setting GRUB_DISABLE_UUID=true, the GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID and
GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_PARTUUID variables will also be set to "true" unless
these have been explicitly set to "false".

That way, the GRUB_DISABLE_UUID variable can be used to force using the
device names for both GRUB and Linux.

Signed-off-by: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Nicholas Vinson <nvinson234@gmail.com>
2019-10-28 15:35:40 +01:00
Prarit Bhargava
ee4bd79ef2 templates: Fix bad test on GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU
The GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU option is different than the others in the sense
that it has to be set to "y" instead of "true" to be enabled.

That causes a lot of confusion to users, some may wrongly set it to "true"
expecting that will work the same than with most options, and some may set
it to "yes" since for other options the value to set is a word and not a
single character.

This patch changes all the grub.d scripts using the GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU
option, so they check if it was set to "true" instead of "y", making it
consistent with all the other options.

But to keep backward compatibility for users that set the option to "y" in
/etc/default/grub file, keep testing for this value. And also do it for
"yes", since it is a common mistake made by users caused by this option
being inconsistent with the others.

Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2019-10-21 14:05:02 +02:00
Andre Przywara
3ea9bc3c06 docs: Document newly introduced net_dhcp command
Commit 5bc41db756 ("net/dhcp: Add explicit net_dhcp command")
introduced the new command "net_dhcp", which (for now) is an alias for
the existing "net_bootp". Unfortunately the TEXI documentation was not
adjusted accordingly.

Rename the existing paragraph about net_bootp to read net_dhcp instead,
and make the net_bootp stanza point to this new command.

On the way add the newly parsed TFTP_SERVER_NAME and BOOTFILE_NAME
packets to the list of supported DHCP options.

Fixes bug: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56725

Reported-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2019-09-23 13:15:25 +02:00
David Michael
688023cd0a smbios: Add a module for retrieving SMBIOS information
The following are two use cases from Rajat Jain <rajatjain@juniper.net>:

  1) We have a board that boots Linux and this board itself can be plugged
     into one of different chassis types. We need to pass different
     parameters to the kernel based on the "CHASSIS_TYPE" information
     that is passed by the bios in the DMI/SMBIOS tables.

  2) We may have a USB stick that can go into multiple boards, and the
     exact kernel to be loaded depends on the machine information
     (PRODUCT_NAME etc) passed via the DMI.

Signed-off-by: David Michael <fedora.dm0@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2019-07-11 21:06:12 +02:00
Jacob Kroon
f2b9083f85 probe: Support probing for partition UUID with --part-uuid
Linux supports root=PARTUUID=<partuuid> boot argument, so add
support for probing it. Compared to the fs UUID, the partition
UUID does not change when reformatting a partition.

For now, only disks using a GPT partition table are supported.

Signed-off-by: Jacob Kroon <jacob.kroon@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2019-07-11 17:46:46 +02:00
Thomas Schmitt
f9811a92e6 docs: Document workaround for grub-mkrescue with older MacBooks
Add a description of the workaround for firmware of older MacBooks
which stalls with a grub-mkrescue ISO image for x86_64-efi target
on an USB stick.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Schmitt <scdbackup@gmx.net>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2019-06-24 12:11:25 +02:00
Eric Snowberg
ff999c803e docs: Bootstrap changes required for older distros
Some older distros do not contain gettext 0.18. Document the workaround
to use the bootstrap utility on these systems.

Signed-off-by: Eric Snowberg <eric.snowberg@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2019-06-24 12:02:20 +02:00
Daniel Kiper
fa20550f16 docs/grub-dev: Change comments rules
Current comments forms are annoying, so, some of them are disallowed
starting from now. New rules are more flexible and mostly aligned
with, e.g., Linux kernel comments rules.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Serbinenko <phcoder@google.com>
2019-04-02 13:13:46 +02:00
Jesús Diéguez Fernández
46f5d51343 msr: Add new MSR modules (rdmsr/wrmsr)
In order to be able to read from and write to model-specific registers,
two new modules are added. They are i386 specific, as the cpuid module.

rdmsr module registers the command rdmsr that allows reading from a MSR.
wrmsr module registers the command wrmsr that allows writing to a MSR.

wrmsr module is disabled if UEFI secure boot is enabled.

Please note that on SMP systems, interacting with a MSR that has a scope
per hardware thread, implies that the value only applies to the
particular cpu/core/thread that ran the command.

Also, if you specify a reserved or unimplemented MSR address, it will
cause a general protection exception (which is not currently being
handled) and the system will reboot.

Signed-off-by: Jesús Diéguez Fernández <jesusdf@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2019-03-12 20:04:07 +01:00
Colin Watson
35b909062e gnulib: Upgrade Gnulib and switch to bootstrap tool
Upgrade Gnulib files to 20190105.

It's much easier to maintain GRUB's use of portability support files
from Gnulib when the process is automatic and driven by a single
configuration file, rather than by maintainers occasionally running
gnulib-tool and committing the result.  Removing these
automatically-copied files from revision control also removes the
temptation to hack the output in ways that are difficult for future
maintainers to follow.  Gnulib includes a "bootstrap" program which is
designed for this.

The canonical way to bootstrap GRUB from revision control is now
"./bootstrap", but "./autogen.sh" is still useful if you just want to
generate the GRUB-specific parts of the build system.

GRUB now requires Autoconf >= 2.63 and Automake >= 1.11, in line with
Gnulib.

Gnulib source code is now placed in grub-core/lib/gnulib/ (which should
not be edited directly), and GRUB's patches are in
grub-core/lib/gnulib-patches/.  I've added a few notes to the developer
manual on how to maintain this.

Signed-off-by: Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2019-03-05 10:48:12 +01:00
Matthew Garrett
a791dc0e35 verifiers: Add TPM documentation
Describe the behaviour of GRUB when the TPM module is in use.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2018-12-12 14:51:43 +01:00
Daniel Kiper
878398c1a3 efi: Add EFI shim lock verifier
This module provides shim lock verification for various kernels
if UEFI secure boot is enabled on a machine.

It is recommended to put this module into GRUB2 standalone image
(avoid putting iorw and memrw modules into it; they are disallowed
if UEFI secure boot is enabled). However, it is also possible to use
it as a normal module. Though such configurations are more fragile
and less secure due to various limitations.

If the module is loaded and UEFI secure boot is enabled then:
  - module itself cannot be unloaded (persistent module),
  - the iorw and memrw modules cannot be loaded,
  - if the iorw and memrw modules are loaded then
    machine boot is disabled,
  - GRUB2 defers modules and ACPI tables verification to
    other verifiers.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Ross Philipson <ross.philipson@oracle.com>
2018-11-09 13:25:31 +01:00
Vladimir Serbinenko
3d612924c3 verifiers: Add the documentation
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Serbinenko <phcoder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Ross Philipson <ross.philipson@oracle.com>
2018-11-09 13:25:31 +01:00
Nicholas Vinson
51be3372ec templates: Update grub script template files
Update grub-mkconfig.in and 10_linux.in to support grub-probe's new
partuuid target.  Update grub.texi documentation.  The following table
shows how GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID, GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_PARTUUID, and
initramfs detection interact:

Initramfs  GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_PARTUUID  GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID  Linux Root
detected   Set                          Set                      ID Method

false      false                        false                    part UUID
false      false                        true                     part UUID
false      true                         false                    dev name
false      true                         true                     dev name
true       false                        false                    fs UUID
true       false                        true                     part UUID
true       true                         false                    fs UUID
true       true                         true                     dev name

Note: GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_PARTUUID and GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID equate to
      'false' when unset or set to any value other than 'true'.
      GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_PARTUUID defaults to 'true'.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Vinson <nvinson234@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2018-04-23 13:31:02 +02:00
Jaegeuk Kim
71f9e4ac44 fs: Add F2FS support
"F2FS (Flash-Friendly File System) is flash-friendly file system which was merged
into Linux kernel v3.8 in 2013.

The motive for F2FS was to build a file system that from the start, takes into
account the characteristics of NAND flash memory-based storage devices (such as
solid-state disks, eMMC, and SD cards).

F2FS was designed on a basis of a log-structured file system approach, which
remedies some known issues of the older log structured file systems, such as
the snowball effect of wandering trees and high cleaning overhead. In addition,
since a NAND-based storage device shows different characteristics according to
its internal geometry or flash memory management scheme (such as the Flash
Translation Layer or FTL), it supports various parameters not only for
configuring on-disk layout, but also for selecting allocation and cleaning
algorithm.", quote by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F2FS.

The source codes for F2FS are available from:

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs.git
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs-tools.git

This patch has been integrated in OpenMandriva Lx 3.
  https://www.openmandriva.org/

Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Pete Batard <pete@akeo.ie>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2018-04-10 19:05:04 +02:00
Matthew S. Turnbull
a698240df0 grub-mkconfig/10_linux: Support multiple early initrd images
Add support for multiple, shared, early initrd images. These early
images will be loaded in the order declared, and all will be loaded
before the initrd image.

While many classes of data can be provided by early images, the
immediate use case would be for distributions to provide CPU
microcode to mitigate the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities.

There are two environment variables provided for declaring the early
images.

* GRUB_EARLY_INITRD_LINUX_STOCK is for the distribution declare
  images that are provided by the distribution or installed packages.
  If undeclared, this will default to a set of common microcode image
  names.

* GRUB_EARLY_INITRD_LINUX_CUSTOM is for user created images. User
  images will be loaded after the stock images.

These separate configurations allow the distribution and user to
declare different image sets without clobbering each other.

This also makes a minor update to ensure that UUID partition labels
stay disabled when no initrd image is found, even if early images are
present.

This is a continuation of a previous patch published by Christian
Hesse in 2016:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2016-02/msg00025.html

Down stream Gentoo bug:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/645088

Signed-off-by: Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthew S. Turnbull <sparky@bluefang-logic.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2018-03-14 13:23:27 +01:00
Vladimir Serbinenko
7108c0c86e grub.texi: Fix typo
Reported by: 	Ori Avtalion <saltyhorse>
2017-08-14 11:36:50 +02:00
Fu Wei
26c2f306fd arm64: Update the introduction of Xen boot commands in docs/grub.texi
delete: xen_linux, xen_initrd, xen_xsm
add: xen_module

This update bases on
    commit 0edd750e50
    Author: Vladimir Serbinenko <phcoder@gmail.com>
    Date:   Fri Jan 22 10:18:47 2016 +0100

        xen_boot: Remove obsolete module type distinctions.

Also bases on the module loading mechanism of Xen code:
488c2a8 docs/arm64: clarify the documention for loading XSM support
67831c4 docs/arm64: update the documentation for loading XSM support
ca32012 xen/arm64: check XSM Magic from the second unknown module.

Signed-off-by: Fu Wei <fu.wei@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2017-05-18 22:30:36 +02:00
Daniel Kahn Gillmor
bf94ef7fbd documentation: Clarify documentation for special environment variable "default".
The current documentation for the special environment variable
"default" is confusing and unclear.  This patch attempts to clean it
up.

In particular, the current documentation refers to the "number or
title", but then in the example it gives, the menu entries and
submenus all have numbers *in* their title; furthermore, there is no
example given about how to choose the number, or any indication about
whether counting is zero-indexed or 1-indexed.

Having a cleaner example and presenting all variants (numeric, title,
and id) should make it clearer to the user.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
2017-02-03 12:32:25 +01:00
Andrei Borzenkov
f8c3af3b61 bootp: export next server IP as environment variable
Network boot autoconfiguration sets default server to next server IP
(siaddr) from BOOTP/DHCP reply, but manual configuration using net_bootp
exports only server name. Unfortunately semantic of server name is not
clearly defined. BOOTP RFC 951 defines it only for client request, and
DHCP RFC 1541 only mentions it, without any implied usage. It looks like
this field is mostly empty in server replies.

Export next server IP as net_<interface>_next_server variable. This allows
grub configuration script to set $root/$prefix based on information obtained
by net_bootp.

Reported and tested by: Nikunj A Dadhania <nikunj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: nikunj@linux.vnet.ibm.com

v2: change variable name to net_<interface>_next_server as discussed on the list
2016-11-22 20:43:04 +03:00
Andreas Freimuth
f96b34224e Add Thinkpad T410s button cmos address. 2016-02-12 19:19:11 +01:00
Vladimir Serbinenko
5f2b285bf8 Document cpuid -p 2016-01-22 13:50:53 +01:00
Vladimir Serbinenko
dab148891e Document expr1 expr2 syntax for test command 2016-01-22 13:27:36 +01:00
Vladimir Serbinenko
4803db51ff Document bootlocation discovery limitations and xen platform limitations 2015-12-14 16:21:24 +01:00
Fu Wei
fb94736fe8 Document ARM64 xen commands 2015-11-12 11:32:01 +01:00
Andrey Borzenkov
bcf8c5814d doc: document config_directory and config_file variables 2015-11-07 17:03:38 +03:00
Andrei Borzenkov
dec7718878 Clarify use of superusers variable and menu entry access
superusers controls both CLI and editing. Also explicitly mention that
empty superusers disables them.

"Access to menuentry" is a bit vague - change to "execute menuentry"
to make it obvious, what access is granted.
2015-05-30 19:36:41 +03:00
Andrei Borzenkov
a666c8bd18 bootp: ignore gateway_ip (relay) field.
From RFC1542:

   The 'giaddr' field is rather poorly named.  It exists to facilitate
   the transfer of BOOTREQUEST messages from a client, through BOOTP
   relay agents, to servers on different networks than the client.
   Similarly, it facilitates the delivery of BOOTREPLY messages from the
   servers, through BOOTP relay agents, back to the client.  In no case
   does it represent a general IP router to be used by the client.  A
   BOOTP client MUST set the 'giaddr' field to zero (0.0.0.0) in all
   BOOTREQUEST messages it generates.

   A BOOTP client MUST NOT interpret the 'giaddr' field of a BOOTREPLY
   message to be the IP address of an IP router.  A BOOTP client SHOULD
   completely ignore the contents of the 'giaddr' field in BOOTREPLY
   messages.

Leave code ifdef'd out for the time being in case we see regression.

Suggested by: Rink Springer <rink@rink.nu>
Closes: 43396
2015-05-17 22:38:30 +03:00
Paul Menzel
e97f5f4968 docs/grub.texi: Fix spelling of cbfstool 2015-04-12 09:10:11 +03:00
Colin Watson
4250f552a6 * docs/grub-dev.texi (Finding your way around): The build system no
longer uses AutoGen directly.
2014-06-26 14:20:17 +01:00
Colin Watson
51f941a0d8 * INSTALL (Cross-compiling the GRUB): Fix some spelling mistakes.
* docs/grub.texi (Getting the source code): Likewise.
2013-12-27 03:03:32 +00:00
Colin Watson
3d369a01ac Update some documentation to refer to Git rather than Bazaar.
* docs/grub.texi (Obtaining and Building GRUB): Refer to Git rather
than Bazaar.
* po/README: Likewise.  Fix spelling mistake.
2013-12-23 14:43:41 +00:00
Vladimir Serbinenko
a99c0a328f * docs/osdetect.cfg: Add isolinux config to detected OSes. 2013-12-18 05:34:17 +01:00
Vladimir Serbinenko
8f5add13ff Implement syslinux parser. 2013-12-18 05:28:05 +01:00
Vladimir Serbinenko
b8765fa082 Implement better integration with Mac firmware. 2013-12-17 15:21:02 +01:00
Vladimir Serbinenko
ec824e0f2a Implement grub_file tool and use it to implement generating of config
in separate root.
2013-12-17 14:39:48 +01:00
Jon McCune
dd73313cba Add --no-rs-codes flag to optionally disable reed-solomon codes in grub-install and grub-bios-setup for x86 BIOS targets. 2013-12-09 16:52:12 -08:00