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Pete Batard
18645c9e70
update internal GRUB2 bootloader for Ubuntu 23.04
* Yet another example in the long list of how not releasing your project IN A
  TIMELY MANNER is creating HUGE PROBLEMS downstream... Looking at you GRUB!!!
* Closes #2233
2023-04-25 18:18:26 +01:00
Pete Batard
fcae51a446
[grub] force server download for nonstandard GRUB (Fedora 37, openSUSE Live, GeckoLinux)
* This reverts most of 3528ca773d in order to download 'core.img' from our server instead of patching it.
* Also solve the issue of downloading a custom 'core.img' for Fedora 37, that introduced
  a new 'grub_debug_is_enabled' symbol without altering their GRUB version string.
* This is accomplished by doing what the distro maintainers should have done on their
  own, by appending a custom suffix to the GRUB version string.
2022-10-06 23:39:32 +01:00
Pete Batard
3528ca773d
[iso] add support for distros using a NONSTANDARD GRUB 2.0 prefix directory
* Looking at you, openSUSE Live and GeckoLinux!
2022-04-07 01:58:22 +01:00
Pete Batard
8ceb0045fa
[grub] update embedded GRUB to 2.06
* Also enable NTFS and ext# as GRUB2 compatible file systems.
2021-07-27 18:10:29 +01:00
Pete Batard
252759eb91
[grub] add yet another frigging patch to GRUB "2.04"
* GRUB 2.0 maintainer think they're doing a fine job, even when there are
  CRITICAL SECURITY FIXES that should warrant an immediate out of bound
  release, and instead consider that waiting MONTHS or YEARS to release
  anything is not a big deal at all.
* Ergo, distros, such as Ubuntu, start to pick whatever security patches
  they see fit, since they can simply not RELY on the upstream project to
  produce security releases in a timely manner. One such patch is:
  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2021-03/msg00012.html
* But since there is no new GRUB release per se, they still call their GRUB
  version, onto which they applied patches that have come into existence
  more than 2 years after the actual 2.04 release, "GRUB 2.04".
* Obviously, since GRUB 2.04 + literally hundreds of cherry picked patches
  does deviate a lot from the last release, THINGS BREAK IN SPECTACULAR
  FASHION, such as the recently released Ubuntu 21.04 failing to boot with
  the error: grub_register_command_lockdown not found.
* Oh, and of course, regardless of all the above, if you ask anyone, they'll
  tell you that there's nothing fundamentally wrong with the GRUB release
  process (even if they should long have released 2.05, 2.05-1 and 2.05-2,
  were their maintainer ready to acknowledge that delaying releases DOES
  CREATES MAJOR ISSUES DOWSTREAM, as many people REPEATEDLY pointed to them
  on the GRUB mailing list) or with the Ubuntu GRUB versioning process (that
  really shouldn't be calling their version of GRUB "grub-2.04" but instead
  something like "grub-2.04_ubuntu"). Oh no siree! Instead, the problem must
  all be with Rufus and its maintainer, who should either spend their lives
  pre-emptively figuring which breaking patch every other distro applied out
  there, or limit media creation to DD mode, like any "sensible" person
  would do, since DD mode is the ultimate panacea (Narrator: "It wasn't").
* So, once again, a massive thanks to all the people who have been involved
  in the current GRUB 2.0 shit show, whose DIRECT result is to make end
  users' lives miserable, while GRUB maintainers are hell bent on continuing
  to pretend that everything's just peachy and are busy patting themselves
  on the back on account that "Fedora recently dropped more than 100 of the
  custom patches they had to apply to their GRUB fork" (sic). Nothing to see
  here, it's just GRUB maintainer's Jedi business as usual. Besides, who the
  hell cares about Windows users trying to transition to Linux in a friendly
  manner anyway. I mean, as long as something doesn't affect existing Linux
  users, it isn't a REAL problem, right?...
2021-04-23 12:01:23 +01:00
Pete Batard
e987272287
[grub] update GRUB 2.04 core.img for Ubuntu 20.10 support
* GRUB have cherry-picked patches from the "BootHole" vulnerability fix at
  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2020-07/msg00034.html and
  have applied them to their 2.04 GRUB loader.
* This results in breakage with "error: symbol 'grub_calloc' not found" when
  using the release GRUB 2.04 version of core.img.
* Therefore, we too cherry-picked some patches to apply on top of GRUB 2.04
  release to make our core.img compatible with Ubuntu 20.10.
* Closes #1616
* Also increase the maximum write stride for ms-sys to 64 KB (required to
  write the GRUB 2.05 bootloader which is larger than 32 KB) and update hash DB.
2020-09-16 13:59:06 +01:00
Pete Batard
4a39f32165
[grub] update embedded GRUB to 2.04 2019-07-05 13:31:22 +01:00
Pete Batard
e52947f300 [grub] update GRUB to 2.02 release
* Just update the headers really, since all the core.img
  from 2.02~rc1 upwards have been binary identical.
* Also fix a potential small issue in process.c
2017-05-05 19:21:53 +01:00
Pete Batard
cbd31af448 [grub] update GRUB to 2.02~rc2 2017-04-05 11:12:58 +01:00
Pete Batard
b89beceedf [grub] update GRUB to 2.02~beta3 2016-03-02 11:00:27 +00:00
Pete Batard
e90eaa4abc [grub] add GRUB 2.0 versioning and enable external core.img download
* Closes #419
* Also updated Bled to latest
2014-12-30 19:46:13 +00:00
Pete Batard
d81f83c110 [core] enable UEFI NTFS support
* This allows no-sweat UEFI support of Windows installation ISOs
  that contain a >4GB file for instance
* This is done through UEFI:TOGO (https://github.com/pbatard/uefi-togo)
  and the efifs NTFS driver (http://efi.akeo.ie)
* Closes #414
* This will also be part of our implementation of #126
2014-12-20 00:22:00 +00:00
Pete Batard
2faf36ffb4 [core] add FreeNAS support
* And reverted grub2 to the one from b3947fc026 (reverts commit 8b47e95eb5)
  since FreeNAS doesn't work with the older one.
  Sorry "Super Grub2 Disk" and other older GRUB2 based tools, but you'll need to
  update the Grub version you use if you want to be compatible with Rufus.
* Closes #244
2014-12-16 23:28:07 +00:00
Pete Batard
8b47e95eb5 [grub] switch to the more compatible Grub 2.00-22
* Also enable Old BIOS fixes with Syslinux, Grub installation and fix related UI issues
* Also add a check to confirm that Grub SBR will fit
2014-11-18 23:49:29 +00:00
Pete Batard
b3947fc026 [grub] add Grub 2.0 support
* Also moves secondary Grub boot record as a resource
* Also fix a typo in README.txt and update signtool path
* Closes #340
2014-11-17 23:41:46 +00:00