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-rw-r--r--gnu/local.mk1
-rw-r--r--gnu/packages/bootloaders.scm1
-rw-r--r--gnu/packages/patches/grub-setup-root.patch124
3 files changed, 126 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/local.mk b/gnu/local.mk
index dc3e880603..7d23b04723 100644
--- a/gnu/local.mk
+++ b/gnu/local.mk
@@ -1041,6 +1041,7 @@ dist_patch_DATA = \
%D%/packages/patches/gromacs-tinyxml2.patch \
%D%/packages/patches/groovy-add-exceptionutilsgenerator.patch \
%D%/packages/patches/grub-efi-fat-serial-number.patch \
+ %D%/packages/patches/grub-setup-root.patch \
%D%/packages/patches/grub-verifiers-Blocklist-fallout-cleanup.patch \
%D%/packages/patches/gspell-dash-test.patch \
%D%/packages/patches/guile-1.8-cpp-4.5.patch \
diff --git a/gnu/packages/bootloaders.scm b/gnu/packages/bootloaders.scm
index 0f0d3b4b62..5273412adf 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/bootloaders.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/bootloaders.scm
@@ -96,6 +96,7 @@
"0zgp5m3hmc9jh8wpjx6czzkh5id2y8n1k823x2mjvm2sk6b28ag5"))
(patches (search-patches
"grub-efi-fat-serial-number.patch"
+ "grub-setup-root.patch"
"grub-verifiers-Blocklist-fallout-cleanup.patch"))))
(build-system gnu-build-system)
(arguments
diff --git a/gnu/packages/patches/grub-setup-root.patch b/gnu/packages/patches/grub-setup-root.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1abe9c383a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gnu/packages/patches/grub-setup-root.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,124 @@
+This patch is taken from OpenWrt, see:
+
+https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/blob/master/package/boot/grub2/patches/100-grub_setup_root.patch.
+
+It allows to use grub-bios-setup on a raw disk-images, without root permissions.
+
+--- a/util/grub-setup.c
++++ b/util/grub-setup.c
+@@ -87,6 +87,8 @@ static struct argp_option options[] = {
+ N_("install even if problems are detected"), 0},
+ {"skip-fs-probe",'s',0, 0,
+ N_("do not probe for filesystems in DEVICE"), 0},
++ {"root-device", 'r', N_("DEVICE"), 0,
++ N_("use DEVICE as the root device"), 0},
+ {"verbose", 'v', 0, 0, N_("print verbose messages."), 0},
+ {"allow-floppy", 'a', 0, 0,
+ /* TRANSLATORS: The potential breakage isn't limited to floppies but it's
+@@ -130,6 +132,7 @@ struct arguments
+ char *core_file;
+ char *dir;
+ char *dev_map;
++ char *root_dev;
+ int force;
+ int fs_probe;
+ int allow_floppy;
+@@ -178,6 +181,13 @@ argp_parser (int key, char *arg, struct
+ arguments->dev_map = xstrdup (arg);
+ break;
+
++ case 'r':
++ if (arguments->root_dev)
++ free (arguments->root_dev);
++
++ arguments->root_dev = xstrdup (arg);
++ break;
++
+ case 'f':
+ arguments->force = 1;
+ break;
+@@ -313,7 +323,7 @@ main (int argc, char *argv[])
+ GRUB_SETUP_FUNC (arguments.dir ? : DEFAULT_DIRECTORY,
+ arguments.boot_file ? : DEFAULT_BOOT_FILE,
+ arguments.core_file ? : DEFAULT_CORE_FILE,
+- dest_dev, arguments.force,
++ arguments.root_dev, dest_dev, arguments.force,
+ arguments.fs_probe, arguments.allow_floppy,
+ arguments.add_rs_codes);
+
+--- a/util/setup.c
++++ b/util/setup.c
+@@ -252,13 +252,12 @@ identify_partmap (grub_disk_t disk __att
+ void
+ SETUP (const char *dir,
+ const char *boot_file, const char *core_file,
+- const char *dest, int force,
++ char *root, const char *dest, int force,
+ int fs_probe, int allow_floppy,
+ int add_rs_codes __attribute__ ((unused))) /* unused on sparc64 */
+ {
+ char *core_path;
+ char *boot_img, *core_img, *boot_path;
+- char *root = 0;
+ size_t boot_size, core_size;
+ grub_uint16_t core_sectors;
+ grub_device_t root_dev = 0, dest_dev, core_dev;
+@@ -307,7 +306,10 @@ SETUP (const char *dir,
+
+ core_dev = dest_dev;
+
+- {
++ if (root)
++ root_dev = grub_device_open(root);
++
++ if (!root_dev) {
+ char **root_devices = grub_guess_root_devices (dir);
+ char **cur;
+ int found = 0;
+@@ -320,6 +322,8 @@ SETUP (const char *dir,
+ char *drive;
+ grub_device_t try_dev;
+
++ if (root_dev)
++ break;
+ drive = grub_util_get_grub_dev (*cur);
+ if (!drive)
+ continue;
+--- a/include/grub/util/install.h
++++ b/include/grub/util/install.h
+@@ -191,13 +191,13 @@ grub_install_get_image_target (const cha
+ void
+ grub_util_bios_setup (const char *dir,
+ const char *boot_file, const char *core_file,
+- const char *dest, int force,
++ char *root, const char *dest, int force,
+ int fs_probe, int allow_floppy,
+ int add_rs_codes);
+ void
+ grub_util_sparc_setup (const char *dir,
+ const char *boot_file, const char *core_file,
+- const char *dest, int force,
++ char *root, const char *dest, int force,
+ int fs_probe, int allow_floppy,
+ int add_rs_codes);
+
+--- a/util/grub-install.c
++++ b/util/grub-install.c
+@@ -1712,7 +1712,7 @@ main (int argc, char *argv[])
+ /* Now perform the installation. */
+ if (install_bootsector)
+ grub_util_bios_setup (platdir, "boot.img", "core.img",
+- install_drive, force,
++ NULL, install_drive, force,
+ fs_probe, allow_floppy, add_rs_codes);
+ break;
+ }
+@@ -1738,7 +1738,7 @@ main (int argc, char *argv[])
+ /* Now perform the installation. */
+ if (install_bootsector)
+ grub_util_sparc_setup (platdir, "boot.img", "core.img",
+- install_drive, force,
++ NULL, install_drive, force,
+ fs_probe, allow_floppy,
+ 0 /* unused */ );
+ break;