Re: Advice for GRUB + GNU Parted users

2000-01-26 Thread Andrew Clausen
OKUJI Yoshinori wrote: > > Could it be stored, say, on a file system? > Yes. > > What would the effect > > of changing the file system be? > > The stage1 (which loads stage1.5 or stage2) doesn't understand any > filesystem, so any change of a filesystem makes no effect. But if the > physica

Re: Advice for GRUB + GNU Parted users

2000-01-26 Thread OKUJI Yoshinori
From: Andrew Clausen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Advice for GRUB + GNU Parted users Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 17:47:04 +1100 > Could it be stored, say, on a file system? Yes. > What would the effect > of changing the file system be? The stage1 (which loads stage1.5 or stage2) doesn't und

[PATCH] Simple variables for menu.lst files

2000-01-26 Thread Manuel Estrada
Hi all, This is my first contribution to grub and I mostly don't know who things work, but I wanted variables and I tried to implement them right, so please, if this is not the way, tell me and I will try to improve it. My two top concens: 1) I don't know if it is right to use t

Re: Advice for GRUB + GNU Parted users

2000-01-26 Thread Andrew Clausen
OKUJI Yoshinori wrote: > > I understand. LILO is equivalent to stage1 + stage2. > > No! LILO is very different from GRUB. Sorry :-) > LILO never understand your filesystem. > LILO never allow you to specify kernel arguments > dynamically. LILO cannot boot *BSD. And so on. > Please don't comp

Re: GRUB cannot boot FreeBSD 4.0-current with ata driver?

2000-01-26 Thread Takehiro Suzuki
Hello.I'm Takehiro Suzuki,a FreeBSD user. :-) Sorry for my misreading. In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> > I found GRUB cannot boot FreeBSD 4.0-current with ata driver. >> >> Where can I download that kernel? This kernel(FreeBSD 4.0-current which I used) is now availa