Re: Support for "map" without arguments

1999-12-09 Thread Jeff Sheinberg
Jeff Sheinberg writes: > You can make grub use late binding - this is what the `d' flag is > for. So if you want to use a grub that has been installed with > the `d' flag after you physically changed the drive number - you > just boot your emergency grub boot flo

Misleading message

1999-12-09 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hello, Josip! > > I remember me fixing this bug in GRUB. Could you please test the CVS > > version? > > Ah, my last mail is wrong - I didn't run it as root... sorry. :) > The error message is misleading - it should say something else > when it hasn't got permissions to read the device. Could yo

Re: Support for "map" without arguments

1999-12-09 Thread Jeff Sheinberg
Pavel Roskin writes: > > Also it seems that the mapping is only activated when > chainloader is used and it has no effect on GRUB itself. Should ^^^^ > it be fixed or documented? > IMO, this is a feature, not a bug. This is what the map command is for.

Re: Bug#52080: grub: won't recognize ext2 partition when there are *fat ones in front

1999-12-09 Thread Dirk Ritter
Hello Josip Rodin! On Wed, 8 December 1999 at 17:55:28, you wrote: > If it's not a big problem to implement it, it should at least > say it's some kind of swap partition, as a warning to newbie/hasty > users so they don't try to boot from it. That could pass as a reasonable suggestion. Howe