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diff --git a/docs/grub/index.html b/docs/grub/index.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000..13422bb4 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/grub/index.html @@ -0,0 +1,190 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html> +<html> +<head> + <meta charset="utf-8"> + <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> + + <style type="text/css"> + @import url('../css/main.css'); + </style> + + <title>GRUB payload</title> +</head> + +<body> + + <div class="section"> + <h1 id="pagetop">GRUB payload</h1> + <p> + This section relates to the GRUB payload used in libreboot. + </p> + <p> + Or <a href="../index.html">Back to main index</a>. + </p> + <ul> + <li><a href="#grub_background">Changing the background image in GRUB</a></li> + <li><a href="#grub_font">Setting font in GRUB</a></li> + <li><a href="#grub_keyboard">GRUB keyboard layouts</a> + <ul> + <li><a href="#grub_custom_keyboard">Custom keyboard layout in GRUB</a></li> + <li><a href="#grub_ukdvorak_keyboard">UK Dvorak keyboard layout in GRUB</a></li> + </ul> + </li> + </ul> + </div> + + <div class="section"> + + <h1 id="grub_background">Changing the background image in GRUB</h1> + + <p> + Use cbfstool from libreboot_util, or libreboot_src/coreboot/util/cbfstool/ if you want to build from source. + </p> + <p> + ./cbfstool yourrom.rom remove background.png -n background.png<br/> + ./cbfstool yourrom.rom add -f background.png -n background.png -t raw + </p> + <p> + When you've done this, re-flash your ROM and you should have a new background at boot time. + </p> + + </div> + + <div class="section"> + + <h1 id="grub_font">Setting font in GRUB (for reference)</h1> + + <p>You don't need to do this unless you would like to change the default font yourself. + (this is just for reference. It has already been done for you)</p> + + <p>The old font used was Unifont, and this had some missing characters: for instance, the border showed ??? characters instead of lines.</p> + + <p>I tried DeJavu Sans Mono from this website: + <a href="http://dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/Download">dejavu-fonts.org</a></p> + + <p>Specifically, the version that I chose was the latest at the time of writing (Saturday 21 June 2014): + <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/dejavu/files/dejavu/2.34/dejavu-fonts-ttf-2.34.tar.bz2">this one</a></p> + + <p>This is a free font that is also contained in GNU/Linux distributions like Trisquel or Parabola.</p> + + <p><b>$ cd libreboot_src/grub</b><br/> + compile grub (the build scripts info on how to do this)<br/> + come back out into libreboot_src/resources/grub:<br/> + <b>$ cd ../libreboot_src/resources/grub/font</b></p> + + <p>I took Dejavu Sans Mono from dejavu (included in this version of libreboot) and did:<br/> + <b>$ ../../../grub/grub-mkfont -o dejavusansmono.pf2 dejavu-fonts-ttf-2.34/ttf/DejaVuSansMono.ttf</b></p> + + <p>I then added the instructions to 'gen.sh' script in grub-assemble to include resources/grub/dejavusansmono.pf2 + in all of the ROM images, at the root of the GRUB memdisk.<br/> + I then added that instructions to the grub.cfg files (to load the font):<br/> + <b>loadfont (memdisk)/dejavusansmono.pf2</b></p> + + <p><a href="#pagetop">Back to top of page</a></p> + + </div> + + <div class="section"> + + <h1 id="grub_keyboard">GRUB keyboard layouts (for reference)</h1> + + <div class="subsection"> + + <h2 id="grub_custom_keyboard">Custom keyboard layout in GRUB (for reference)</h2> + + <p> + Keymaps are stored in resources/utilities/grub-assemble/keymap/. + </p> + + <p> + Example (French Azerty):<br/> + <b>$ ckbcomp fr > frazerty</b><br/><br/> + Go in grub directory:<br/> + <b>cat frazerty | ./grub/grub-mklayout -o frazerty.gkb</b> + </p> + + <p> + You must make sure that the files are named keymap and keymap.gkb (where 'keymap' can be whatever you want). + </p> + + <p> + Then from the above example, you would put <b>frazerty</b> in <b>resources/utilities/grub-assemble/keymap/original/</b> and + the <b>frazerty.gkb</b> file goes under <b>resources/utilities/grub-assemble/keymap/</b> + </p> + + <p> + The build scripts will automatically see this, and automatically build + ROM images with your custom layout (given the name) and include them under bin. Example: <b>libreboot_frazerty.rom</b>. + </p> + + <p><a href="#pagetop">Back to top of page</a></p> + + </div> + + <div class="subsection"> + + <h2 id="grub_ukdvorak_keyboard">UK Dvorak keyboard layout in GRUB (for reference)</h2> + + <p> + ukdvorak had to be created manually, based on usdvorak. diff them (under resources/utilities/grub-assemble/keymap/original) + to see how ukdvorak file was created + </p> + + <p><b>$ cat ukdvorak | ./grub/grub-mklayout -o ukdvorak.gkb</b></p> + + <p><a href="#pagetop">Back to top of page</a></p> + + </div> + + </div> + + <div class="section"> + + <p> + Copyright © 2014 Leah Rowe <info@minifree.org><br/> + Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document + under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 + or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; + with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. + A copy of the license can be found at <a href="../gfdl-1.3.txt">../gfdl-1.3.txt</a> + </p> + + <p> + Updated versions of the license (when available) can be found at + <a href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html">https://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html</a> + </p> + + <p> + UNLESS OTHERWISE SEPARATELY UNDERTAKEN BY THE LICENSOR, TO THE + EXTENT POSSIBLE, THE LICENSOR OFFERS THE LICENSED MATERIAL AS-IS + AND AS-AVAILABLE, AND MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF + ANY KIND CONCERNING THE LICENSED MATERIAL, WHETHER EXPRESS, + IMPLIED, STATUTORY, OR OTHER. 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