Re: Grub-devel Digest, Vol 73, Issue 9

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"Encrypted password support, with a new utility `grub-mkpasswd-pbkdf2'."

Dose this mean that GRUB 1.98 now has support for password-protection (of
the bootloader), or is this something completely different?

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Fini D.


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>    1. GRUB 1.98 released. (Vladimir '?-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko)
>    2. [PATCH] fix ?UUID? generation in grub-mkrescue (Thorsten Glaser)
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> Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:20:22 +0100
> From: Vladimir '?-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko   <address@hidden>
> Subject: GRUB 1.98 released.
> To: The development of GRUB 2 <address@hidden>
> Cc: Felix Zielcke <address@hidden>, Colin Watson
>       <address@hidden>,       Robert Millan <address@hidden>
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> Hello, all
>
> I'm proud to announce the release of GNU GRUB version 1.98.
>
> GRUB, also known as the GRand Unified Bootloader, is a modular, portable
> bootloader that supports a number of platforms, including standard
> BIOS-based
> PCs, IEEE-1275 platforms (such as the OLPC and some PowerPC/Sparc64
> hardware)
> and coreboot, the free (as in freedom) pre-boot initialization framework.
> This is the first time that we include Yeeloong support. Yeeloong is free
> (as in freedom)
> Loongson-2F-based (MIPS compliant CPU) laptop. This release can only be
> chainloaded from PMON
> but on PLCC version is on its way.
> This is also a first time that widget-based menu is included into official
> release.
> Other major improvements include (extract from NEWS file):
>
> * Multiboot on EFI support.
>
> * Saved default menu entry support, with new utilities `grub-reboot' and
>   `grub-set-default'.
>
> * Unit testing framework.
>
> * Support for multiple terminals.
>
> * Encrypted password support, with a new utility `grub-mkpasswd-pbkdf2'.
>
> * `grub-mkfloppy' removed; use `grub-mkrescue' to create floppy images.
>
> * Add grub-probe support for GNU/Hurd.
>
> * Add support for gettext.
>
>   <http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/>
>
> A source tarball for the new release can be found at:
>
>   http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-1.98.tar.gz
>
> and its GPG detached signature [*]:
>
>   http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-1.98.tar.gz.sig
>
> [*] You can use either of the above signature files to verify that
> the corresponding file (without the .sig suffix) is intact.  First,
> be sure to download both the .sig file and the corresponding tarball.
> Then, run a command like this:
>
>   gpg --verify grub-1.97.tar.gz.sig
>
> If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
> then run this command to import it:
>
>   gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys E82E4209
>
> and rerun the `gpg --verify' command.
>
> This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
>   Autoconf 2.65
>   Ruby 1.8.7
>
> GCC 4.4 is the recommended version for building it, although any version
> starting with 4.1.3 is supported in this release.
>
> I hope you enjoy using GRUB as much as we enjoyed developing it.
>
> --
> Regards
> Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 21:55:14 +0000 (UTC)
> From: Thorsten Glaser <address@hidden>
> Subject: [PATCH] fix ?UUID? generation in grub-mkrescue
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> Hi,
>
> my copy of Ecma 119 at least states that byte 17 is the time zone
> offset of the modification time which you use as “UUID”. It is set
> to 0 by your variant of mkisofs, and I’m going to apply the same
> to makefs(8) so that it can be used instead. Hence, we should ask
> date(1) to give us Universal Time instead of local.
>
> For the record (not relevant for this diff, I think), I do have
> copyright assignment papers with the FSF standing (from earlier
> work on things like libtool, gcc, …) and, if desired, extend it
> to work on GRUB (either version) hereby.
>
> bye,
> //mirabilos
> - --
> FWIW, I'm quite impressed with mksh interactively. I thought it was much
> *much* more bare bones. But it turns out it beats the living hell out of
> ksh93 in that respect. I'd even consider it for my daily use if I hadn't
> wasted half my life on my zsh setup. :-) -- Frank Terbeck in #!/bin/mksh
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> === modified file 'util/grub-mkrescue.in'
> --- util/grub-mkrescue.in     2010-03-06 16:28:25 +0000
> +++ util/grub-mkrescue.in     2010-03-06 21:49:04 +0000
> @@ -145,7 +145,7 @@
>      memdisk_dir=`mktemp -d "$MKTEMP_TEMPLATE"`
>      mkdir -p ${memdisk_dir}/boot/grub
>      # obtain date-based UUID
> -    iso_uuid=$(date +%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S-00)
> +    iso_uuid=$(date -u +%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S-00)
>
>      modules="$(cat ${coreboot_dir}/partmap.lst) ${modules}"
>      cat << EOF > ${memdisk_dir}/boot/grub/grub.cfg
>
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