diff --git a/grub-2.00-beta4-wronly.patch b/grub-2.00-beta4-wronly.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 90b9c59..0000000
--- a/grub-2.00-beta4-wronly.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-From 8e4aea82c6aba6b8b5ca68d74abafa3fe9486c36 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
-Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:17:38 -0400
-Subject: [PATCH] Open device O_WRONLY in grub_util_biosdisk_write.
-
-revision 4225 introduced an error wherein the device we intend
-to write to from e.g. grub2-bios-setup is opened read-only. The
-immediate following write(2) call then fails with -EBADF.
-
----
- grub-core/kern/emu/hostdisk.c |    2 +-
- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
-
-diff --git a/grub-core/kern/emu/hostdisk.c b/grub-core/kern/emu/hostdisk.c
-index ea7eb3d..19748df 100644
---- a/grub-core/kern/emu/hostdisk.c
-+++ b/grub-core/kern/emu/hostdisk.c
-@@ -1081,7 +1081,7 @@ grub_util_biosdisk_write (grub_disk_t disk, grub_disk_addr_t sector,
-     {
-       int fd;
-       grub_disk_addr_t max = ~0ULL;
--      fd = open_device (disk, sector, O_RDONLY, &max);
-+      fd = open_device (disk, sector, O_WRONLY, &max);
-       if (fd < 0)
- 	return grub_errno;
- 
--- 
-1.7.10
-