From: "Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko" <phcoder@gmail.com>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Regarding writing into raw file
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 08:06:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D3E766D.9050307@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=QLe3LTZD+aWb7ZscscknmwTsCYF93Z1xOKO2D@mail.gmail.com>
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On 01/25/2011 07:02 AM, Gnanasekar Loganathan wrote:
> Hi Vladimir,
>
> I'm using the grub_disk_write function to write the data.
>
This should work (as long as used right, of course).
> My goal is to erase all the data in that particular partition.
>
>
GRUB isn't the right place to write so much data. I recommend having a
small kernel with ramdisk.
> Booted os will do read and write operation on that partition.
>
> -Gnana
>
> 2011/1/24 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko <phcoder@gmail.com>:
>
>> On 01/24/2011 03:49 PM, Gnanasekar Loganathan wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I try to opening a file called "(hd0,2,a)+10" from GRUB.
>>>
>>>
>> This is old syntax. New one is (hd0,netbsd1)
>>
>>> For me open got success and able read some of the data.
>>> But i'm not able to write some data into the file, getting "out of
>>> partition" error.
>>>
>>>
>> GRUB has no file writing functions whatsoever, only disk writing
>> (grub_disk_write)
>> You can look into save_env in grub-core/commands/loadenv.c for reference
>> on the limited file overwrite possibilities.
>> I would be able to help better if I knew what your end goal is.
>>
>>> Kindly help me, how to open, read and write into a raw file from the GRUB.
>>>
>>> FYI: Partition type is NetBSD one.
>>>
>>> If you need any info, kindly revert back.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Gnana
>>>
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>>
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>> Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
>>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-25 7:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-24 14:49 Regarding writing into raw file Gnanasekar Loganathan
2011-01-24 14:57 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2011-01-25 6:02 ` Gnanasekar Loganathan
2011-01-25 7:06 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko [this message]
2011-01-25 10:34 ` Gnanasekar Loganathan
2011-01-25 11:42 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2011-01-25 13:01 ` Gnanasekar Loganathan
2011-01-25 13:15 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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