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| author | Lluís Batlle i Rossell <viric@vicerveza.homeunix.net> | 2009-07-13 16:57:33 +0000 |
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| committer | Lluís Batlle i Rossell <viric@vicerveza.homeunix.net> | 2009-07-13 16:57:33 +0000 |
| commit | 3a8a3c91f75761f83fa1090a328c53509afeed83 (patch) | |
| tree | f6e23a0f34d349832ec28bad410815f2e15d8c4c /pkgs/tools/misc | |
| parent | ed658483e9e42198a5cbbeff950ecbf8a12bc330 (diff) | |
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Adding a patch for grub, so livecds with grub can still boot with buggy bioses,
as those of Acer 292LMi or Airis N990. This allows booting the NixOS ISO releases. I made it optional, not included by default. I don't think it would harm at all enabling it always - let it be decided on forum. svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=16341
Diffstat (limited to 'pkgs/tools/misc')
| -rw-r--r-- | pkgs/tools/misc/grub/buggybios.patch | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | pkgs/tools/misc/grub/default.nix | 4 |
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/misc/grub/buggybios.patch b/pkgs/tools/misc/grub/buggybios.patch new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..1453a8adaa00 --- /dev/null +++ b/pkgs/tools/misc/grub/buggybios.patch @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +Taken from: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=10433 +--- grub-0.95.orig/stage2/bios.c 2004-03-27 17:34:04.000000000 +0100 ++++ grub-0.95/stage2/bios.c 2005-03-02 01:02:29.192582200 +0100 +@@ -147,6 +147,7 @@ + grub_memset (&cdrp, 0, sizeof (cdrp)); + cdrp.size = sizeof (cdrp) - sizeof (cdrp.dummy); + err = biosdisk_int13_extensions (0x4B01, drive, &cdrp); ++ err = 0; /* really ugly hack to circumvent faulty BIOS versions like Acer 292LMi */ + if (! err && cdrp.drive_no == drive) + { + if ((cdrp.media_type & 0x0F) == 0) diff --git a/pkgs/tools/misc/grub/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/misc/grub/default.nix index e0c35d63f727..f6f8f3ca2510 100644 --- a/pkgs/tools/misc/grub/default.nix +++ b/pkgs/tools/misc/grub/default.nix @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -{stdenv, fetchurl, autoconf, automake}: +{stdenv, fetchurl, autoconf, automake, buggyBiosCDSupport ? false}: stdenv.mkDerivation { name = "grub-0.97-patch-1.9"; @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation { # /dev/disk/by-label/bla. The symlink resolution code in # grub-install isn't smart enough. ./symlink.patch - ]; + ] ++ (stdenv.lib.optional buggyBiosCDSupport ./buggybios.patch); # Autoconf/automake required for the splashimage patch. buildInputs = [autoconf automake]; |