From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1Q5Din-000507-IW for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 04:59:17 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=47252 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q5Die-0004V8-Eq for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 04:59:15 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q5DiP-0007X7-C7 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 04:58:54 -0400 Received: from mail-ww0-f49.google.com ([74.125.82.49]:43953) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q5DiP-0007Wz-5b; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 04:58:53 -0400 Received: by wwb39 with SMTP id 39so2152932wwb.30 for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 01:58:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type; bh=82+xToJwK0ZjgifR7ExMS13DmsnARmyEtgNbIKcu5Ck=; b=krYkyYIr0eU87N/wyMjlW+CHEw3Xenkfi81hEGUJcHy3gbRhoPIr9eJC0WkplPMCZ3 goFbpoT85HF1LGCrJUDMt058enDQb7mHrESmf+jgoWrBAYEQp6b8WGI0gPKgr7iaWK6d 5r6qlB4f39fuIpMx6RjF1OXjm1DCQHeMUqSH8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type; b=SnC/sajXUtKWAQ81ImzfKWE+l/Ugfuz1MkwVq4L2PhVxzNwXAKTvexTur/hhSLU7hU uTwWoEEs1vEyu7iHL2WOgkcdnGLujr3QrBaHlJ8Kdu0xS8qFGOKixGDpr9YyDCKqq9QF xx2acEKKxG/xlYPRFKHITcAJkLqDik13xrY/Y= Received: by 10.216.61.65 with SMTP id v43mr1780601wec.84.1301561931971; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 01:58:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from debian.x201.phnet (gprs09.swisscom-mobile.ch [193.247.250.9]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id m73sm399429wej.40.2011.03.31.01.58.50 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 31 Mar 2011 01:58:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4D944242.10405@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 10:58:42 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?VmxhZGltaXIgJ8+GLWNvZGVyL3BoY29kZXInIFNlcmJpbmVua28=?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20110303 Iceowl/1.0b1 Icedove/3.0.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GNU GRUB References: <4D943DC9.4010506@isaac.cedarswampstudios.org> In-Reply-To: <4D943DC9.4010506@isaac.cedarswampstudios.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig2B27937C444DD334332CCFD6" X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 74.125.82.49 Cc: Leslie Rhorer , help-grub@gnu.org, Isaac Dupree , 'Colin Watson' Subject: Re: Full documentation for GRUB2 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: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 08:59:15 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig2B27937C444DD334332CCFD6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 31.03.2011 10:39, Isaac Dupree wrote: > If QEMU/KVM had a way to make a disk read-only within the simulation*, > then I'd try KVM with the whole disk but readonly. Run, play with > bootloader, abort KVM once it's booting a kernel (which will probably > get confused soon anyway once it realizes it's unable to write to its > root filesystem). Can test config-syntax that way; cannot test > hardware compatibility (BIOS, ATA etc.) because QEMU has its own > emulation for BIOS and hardware interfaces.=20 This is a good way but not bullet-proof since your modifications might not reach the real disk for a while, even if you issue a sync. --=20 Regards Vladimir '=CF=86-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko --------------enig2B27937C444DD334332CCFD6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iF4EAREKAAYFAk2UQkIACgkQNak7dOguQgkHfAEAr1ekpaVKychRpgDs0m2QlZ5u t+lFu6qpa0Bs0X8gWNgA/09jWVWxmopWcXGepcGZ4hFTp2RQcX8Krwnaisde2WbO =q3A+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig2B27937C444DD334332CCFD6--