Re: Extracting config file from GRUB EFI image

[SevenBits]

On 05/03/2016 11:56 PM, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
> 04.05.2016 06:49, SevenBits пишет:
>> On Tuesday, May 3, 2016, Andrei Borzenkov <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> 04.05.2016 06:34, SevenBits пишет:
>>>> On Tuesday, May 3, 2016, Andrei Borzenkov <address@hidden
>>> <javascript:;>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> 04.05.2016 03:57, SevenBits пишет:
>>>>>> I used this command to create a bootable GRUB UEFI image:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ../grub-mkstandalone -d . -o ~/Desktop/boot.efi --format=x86_64-efi
>>>>>> --grub-mkimage=../grub-mkimage --install-modules="boot linux ext2
>>> normal
>>>>>> configfile lspci ls help echo fat exfat hfs hfsplus part_msdos part_gpt
>>>>>> part_apple terminal sleep loopback normal fixvideo iso9660 loadbios
>>>>>> setvariable applesetos"
>>>>>> /boot/grub/fonts/myfont.pf2='/boot/grub/fonts/unicode.pf2'
>>>>>> /boot/grub/grub.cfg='/home/user/Desktop/grub.cfg'
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Unfortunately, I have accidentally erased the grub.cfg file referenced
>>>>>> in this command and I (stupidly) did not include it in source code with
>>>>>> my rest of my project.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is there a way to extract this GRUB configuration file from a built
>>>>>> image? In other words, if I have an image that was built with the above
>>>>>> command, can I extract the configuration file from it?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> You can take https://github.com/arvidjaar/bootinfoscript as example and
>>>>> extract GRUB modules parsing. Modules are in "mods" section of GRUB efi
>>>>> image. I actually started with standalone script to do it, but never had
>>>>> enough incentive to finish.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> How exactly does this script work? Do I call it on my GRUB image?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Did you try to read README before asking?
>>
>>
>> I can't access GitHub right now, which is why I asked. I'll check out the
>> script tomorrow.
>>
> 
> BIS scans system for known bootloaders and bootloader related files. It
> is intended x86 systems with legacy boot (or, better - nobody tried it
> somewhere else). For supported bootloader it tries to parse binaries and
> display some more information.
> 
> It has rudimentary support for EFI, but here the problem starts with
> simple fact that we have no way to even detect GRUB image - it may be
> stored under any name and located practically anywhere.

So, I've taken a look at the script, and while it appears to work, it
doesn't quite do what I need. The script scans my MBR, but I don't want
it to scan my MBR; I need to scan only *one* file that I have. Ideally,
I'd like to be able to pass the path of this file to the script.

In other words: I don't want to look at the system GRUB (which is using
legacy), but rather a specific GRUB EFI image on my hard drive.

Calling ./bootinfoscript -h gives the list of commands, but there isn't
any to specify the file to look at. Is there any way to accomplish this?

> 
>>
>>>
>>>> Can it actually extract files, or just list what files are included in
>>> the
>>>> image?
>>>>
>>>
>>> It does extract them during processing.
>>>
>>
>> Fantastic.
>>
>

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