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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
Andrey Borzenkov
c50e5f4543 Update color_normal and color_highlight defaults (light-gray instead of white) 2013-12-08 00:00:26 +04:00
Colin Watson
44d4884779 Merge branch 'cjwatson/timeout-style' 2013-12-03 16:15:45 +00:00
Andrey Borzenkov
be0d45555e document sleep command exit codes 2013-11-30 14:57:11 +04:00
Colin Watson
f70ab525f9 Remove a few references to GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT*
Reported by Andrey Borzenkov.
2013-11-29 17:19:37 +00:00
Colin Watson
2dbda2215c Fix documentation of behaviour after pressing ESC
Pointed out by Andrey Borzenkov.
2013-11-29 15:25:43 +00:00
Colin Watson
53cc63bf85 Add GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE_BUTTON support
Suggested by Vladimir Serbinenko.
2013-11-29 15:18:05 +00:00
Colin Watson
471b2683e7 Move deprecated grub-mkconfig options to a separate table
Suggested by Andrey Borzenkov.
2013-11-29 14:59:25 +00:00
Colin Watson
8ddf84bfb8 Fix "make -C docs dvi"
* docs/grub-dev.texi (Font Metrics): Exclude @image command from DVI
builds, since we don't have an EPS version of font_char_metrics.png.
Add leading dot to image extension per the Texinfo documentation.
2013-11-29 13:48:23 +00:00
Francesco Lavra
b67422d33d Fix command description in case of a device name passed as argument. 2013-11-28 17:25:52 +04:00
Colin Watson
827d87e9d6 Fix documentation of timeout expiry. 2013-11-28 11:01:53 +00:00
Colin Watson
8f236c1419 Revamp hidden timeout handling
Add a new timeout_style environment variable and a corresponding
GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE configuration key for grub-mkconfig.  This
controls hidden-timeout handling more simply than the previous
arrangements, and pressing any hotkeys associated with menu entries
during the hidden timeout will now boot the corresponding menu entry
immediately.

GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=<non-empty> + GRUB_TIMEOUT=<non-zero> now
generates a warning, and if it shows the menu it will do so as if
the second timeout were not present.  Other combinations are
translated into reasonable equivalents.
2013-11-28 02:29:15 +00:00
Vladimir Serbinenko
095bb1bfa5 * docs/grub-dev.texi: Document stack and heap sizes. 2013-11-22 12:03:44 +01:00
Axel Kellermann
55e706c918 * util/grub.d/30_os-prober.in: Add GRUB_OS_PROBER_SKIP_LIST to
selectively skipping systems.
2013-11-19 23:39:51 +01:00
Andrey Borzenkov
c2fdb33116 document cmdpath environment variable 2013-11-16 17:00:59 +04:00
Colin Watson
3809f0163b * docs/grub.texi (Internationalisation, Supported kernels): Fix
sectioning.
2013-11-13 02:08:50 +00:00
Vladimir Serbinenko
674ad4f6bc * docs/grub-dev.texi: Replace bzr references with git ones. 2013-11-10 17:48:42 +01:00
Andrey Borzenkov
5b99970eb7 grub-reboot no more sets saved_default
Remove reference to grub-default from description of saved default entry.

Also mention that GRUB_DEFAULT=saved depends on availability of environment
block.
2013-11-10 18:24:27 +04:00
Andrey Borzenkov
5645cc7995 document GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU
Signed-off-by: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com>
2013-11-10 17:40:47 +04:00
Vladimir Serbinenko
9612ebc00e Add new ports: i386-xen and x86_64-xen. This allows running GRUB in
XEN PV environment and load kernels.
2013-11-09 21:29:11 +01:00
Vladimir Testov
4db2250000 * grub-core/gfxmenu/gui_box.c: Updated to work with area status.
* grub-core/gfxmenu/gui_canvas.c: Likewise.
        * grub-core/gfxmenu/view.c: Likewise.
        * grub-core/video/fb/video_fb.c: Introduce new functions:
        grub_video_set_area_status, grub_video_get_area_status,
        grub_video_set_region, grub_video_get_region.
        * grub-core/video/bochs.c: Likewise.
        * grub-core/video/capture.c: Likewise.
        * grub-core/video/video.c: Likewise.
        * grub-core/video/cirrus.c: Likewise.
        * grub-core/video/efi_gop.c: Likewise.
        * grub-core/video/efi_uga.c: Likewise.
        * grub-core/video/emu/sdl.c: Likewise.
        * grub-core/video/radeon_fuloong2e.c: Likewise.
        * grub-core/video/sis315pro.c: Likewise.
        * grub-core/video/sm712.c: Likewise.
        * grub-core/video/i386/pc/vbe.c: Likewise.
        * grub-core/video/i386/pc/vga.c: Likewise.
        * grub-core/video/ieee1275.c: Likewise.
        * grub-core/video/i386/coreboot/cbfb.c: Likewise.
        * include/grub/video.h: Likewise.
        * include/grub/video_fb.h: Likewise.
        * include/grub/fbfill.h: Updated render_target structure.
        grub_video_rect_t viewport, region, area
        int area_offset_x, area_offset_y, area_enabled
        * include/grub/gui.h: New helper function
        grub_video_bounds_inside_region.
        * docs/grub-dev.texi: Added information about new functions.
2013-11-08 15:42:38 +04:00
Vladimir Serbinenko
76681e714e * docs/grub.texi (Vendor power-on keys): Add XPS M1330M based on old
e-mail by Per Öberg.
2013-11-04 22:04:22 +01:00
Vladimir Serbinenko
67508925d0 * docs/grub.texi: Document usage of menuentry id. 2013-11-04 05:15:15 +01:00
Vladimir Serbinenko
0c62124eb5 * docs/grub.texi: Add few mentions about EFI, debug and videoinfo. 2013-11-04 02:18:02 +01:00
Vladimir Serbinenko
5a01722ebc * docs/grub.texi: Mention RSA support. 2013-11-03 19:04:02 +01:00
Vladimir Serbinenko
00bfa988fc * grub-core/loader/multiboot.c: Add support for multiboot kernels
quirks.
2013-10-28 15:23:46 +01:00
BVK Chaitanya
8d179dae4e * docs/autoiso.cfg: New file. 2013-10-27 20:34:24 +01:00
BVK Chaitanya
3ace8d7584 * docs/osdetect.cfg: New file. 2013-10-26 18:39:03 +02:00
Jon McCune
c16535a845 Documentation cleanup in response to ML discussion.
[v0] Accepted with modifications by phcoder@
 [v1] Introduce subsections within Security
 [v1] Correct errors regarding public key files not being automatically signature-checked in trust and verify_detached
 [v1] Replace check_signatures=enforce with check_signatures set to enforce
 [v1] Move detailed discussion of using signatures out of check_signatures environment variable description
 [v1] Use long form for option flags to security-relevant commands
 [v2] Explain the key fingerprint format for distrust and list_trusted.
 [v2] Eliminates references to grub-mkimage and UEFI Secure Boot.
 [v3] Updates in response to addition of --skip-sig to trust and verify_detached
 [  ] Restore @xref for cross-references at the start of sentences
2013-10-25 08:52:36 -07:00
Vladimir Serbinenko
bca274b455 * docs/grub.texi: Fix ordering and use pxref rather than xref. 2013-10-23 17:54:28 +02:00