From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1Njtwy-0002d8-PW for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 07:33:16 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Njtwx-0002cp-4q for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 07:33:15 -0500 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=49047 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Njtww-0002cc-85 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 07:33:14 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Njtwv-0004jt-UN for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 07:33:14 -0500 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.187]:54433) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Njtwv-0004jd-GE for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 07:33:13 -0500 Received: from [192.168.100.121] (xdsl-78-34-177-171.netcologne.de [78.34.177.171]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mreu2) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0LmgTP-1N9jqm061j-00ZY8u; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:33:11 +0100 Message-ID: <4B83CB01.5090207@web.de> Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:33:05 +0100 From: edgar.soldin@web.de User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100111 Thunderbird/3.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GNU GRUB References: <4B82DECF.9030705@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4B82DECF.9030705@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+3E7EJzVou+MFXRe6UNai6Q5v4cZWDp0o6rlF F5pRClLb5a4SlrE9KDiWcO1BKW/IFZA0e92tXO2Ly0cVGIVQxs FnbSWotCE6diGk7dXDhQg== X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: Lead-up message 'Welcome to GRUB!' inverted text printed lowlevel via BIOS ?!? X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:33:15 -0000 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