Re: grub-dumpbios

[Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>]

On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 01:45:31PM +0800, Bean wrote:
> On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 4:39 AM, Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 03:57:17AM +0800, Bean wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Perhaps we could incorporate them in grub-update/grub-install, I guess
> >> there should be no harm adding two files in /boot/grub.
> >
> > Please don't.  This is really corner case;  I at least wouldn't want GRUB
> > to install non-free blobs in /boot/grub automagically.
> >
> > (Those blobs were already in the hardware, so GRUB is not responsible for
> > them, but still...)
> >
> > Is this use case documented somewhere (e.g. in the wiki)?  Then users who
> > need it can learn about the procedure from the same place.  Also ...
> >
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've documented the usage of grub-dumpbios in wiki page:
> 
> http://grub.enbug.org/TestingOnMacbook
> 
> The commands can be placed there as well. I personally doesn't mind,
> but perhaps it would be easier for casual user to use a command
> instead of typing the dd's directly.

Hi,

I just put the dd commands in that wiki page.  I'm removing grub-dumpbios
from svn as it's no longer necessary.

-- 
Robert Millan

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  still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."