From: edgar.soldin@web.de
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Lead-up message 'Welcome to GRUB!' inverted text printed lowlevel via BIOS ?!?
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:33:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B83CB01.5090207@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B82DECF.9030705@gmail.com>
On 22.02.2010 20:45, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> Robo L wrote:
>> Hi all
>> Thanks for reply.
>> Colins:
>> It is a possible, I must check it. I tell You soon.
>> Richard,
>> I see, that I must stop it. Licence is Licence, but for my experience
>> I check it what is a solution.
You do not have to stop nothing. Free software means exactly that you
can do whatever you want to/with it. Only if you distribute it you will
have to obey several rules.
>>
>> btw: my way isn't security through obscurity, although it might seem so.
> It is. And pretty lousy one actually. It's enough to compare capacity of
> device as mentioned in device manager to total size of partitions to see
> that there is something more. And knowing that there is something else
> it's enough to boot from grub on external storage or launch any disk utility
He never stated why he wanted it exactly. Maybe he just want's not to
confuse an everyday user.
regards ede
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-23 12:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-22 19:20 Lead-up message 'Welcome to GRUB!' inverted text printed lowlevel via BIOS ?!? Robo L
2010-02-22 19:45 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-02-23 12:33 ` edgar.soldin [this message]
2010-02-23 21:24 ` Carles Pina i Estany
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-02-24 7:36 Robo L
2010-02-21 10:00 Robo L
2010-02-21 13:23 ` Colin Watson
2010-02-21 19:56 ` Robo L
2010-02-21 20:21 ` Colin Watson
2010-02-21 20:38 ` richardvoigt
2010-02-18 10:24 Robo L
2010-02-19 11:00 ` Michal Suchanek
2010-02-19 15:52 ` richardvoigt
2010-02-20 10:34 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-02-20 15:18 ` richardvoigt
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