Re: linux support code is rewrited

2000-07-25 Thread OKUJI Yoshinori
I've fixed some bugs in the code. Now GRUB can boot bzImage successfully (at least for 2.2.x) but cannot boot zImage. Okuji

Re: Problems booting with LS-120 drive

2000-07-25 Thread OKUJI Yoshinori
From: Adrian Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Problems booting with LS-120 drive Date: 25 Jul 2000 06:54:13 +0200 Thanks to Jochen and Okuji for the help and the solution. One comment, as this is a "seldom used" feature, wouldn't it be better to create a seperate stage1 to leave the

Re: New commands to allow booting obscure OS's from logical disksin extended partiton

2000-07-25 Thread Stefan Ondrejicka
On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote: Hello, Thanks for your reply. I invented one dirty trick which will allow me to do so. The idea is to map logical disks from extended partion to one entry in primary partition. It should make some partitioning programs unhappy because of

Re: linux support code is rewrited

2000-07-25 Thread Khimenko Victor
25-Jul-00 21:10 you wrote: I've fixed some bugs in the code. Now GRUB can boot bzImage successfully (at least for 2.2.x) but cannot boot zImage. It's VERY hard to fit usable 2.2.x kernel in zImage and impossible for 2.4.x (talks about bloat :-(( ) so I think it's Ok. zImage exist at all

Re: linux support code is rewrited

2000-07-25 Thread OKUJI Yoshinori
From: "Khimenko Victor" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: linux support code is rewrited Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 17:46:38 +0400 (MSD) It's VERY hard to fit usable 2.2.x kernel in zImage and impossible for 2.4.x (talks about bloat :-(( ) so I think it's Ok. That's not acceptable, since I don't

Re: New commands to allow booting obscure OS's from logical disksin extended partiton

2000-07-25 Thread OKUJI Yoshinori
From: Stefan Ondrejicka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: New commands to allow booting obscure OS's from logical disks in extended partiton Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 14:49:54 +0200 (MET DST) I don't said it is bad idea, but have also its pros/cons as have my solution. With my solution is good,

Re: Reading problems with FAT16

2000-07-25 Thread Jochen Hoenicke
On Jul 22, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote: From: "Alecsandru Soare" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Reading problems with FAT16 Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:36:18 +0300 I use grub ver. 0.5.94 and I encounter problems when I try to use initrd command to load an Linux root image from a FAT16 partition.

Re: Support for NT

2000-07-25 Thread Gordon Matzigkeit
Dave Siracusa writes: DS Question: Your web page mentions you support NT (chaining mode), DS can you elaborate? From the GRUB Manual (grub)Configuration: # For booting Windows NT or Windows95 title Windows NT / Windows 95 boot menu root(hd0,0) makeactive

Re: New commands to allow booting obscure OS's from logical disksin extended partiton

2000-07-25 Thread OKUJI Yoshinori
From: Stefan Ondrejicka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: New commands to allow booting obscure OS's from logical disks in extended partiton Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 17:00:02 +0200 (MET DST) It is. But why not let users to break the rules, when they accept that it should be dangerous for them.

Re: Support for NT

2000-07-25 Thread Khimenko Victor
25-Jul-00 11:47 you wrote: First: Sorry I sent to this email. Question: Your web page mentions you support NT (chaining mode), can you elaborate? What's exactly your problem ? I have both NT and W2K chain-loaded from GRUB without problems, for example.

Re: Read Error with Asus P2B-L motherboard

2000-07-25 Thread Jonathan Walther
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- No, the attempt to boot from a CD-ROM failed because there was no CD in the drive; stage1 and stage2 were on a floppy. Is that what you meant? Jonathan On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote: Boot from ATAPI CD-ROM : Failure ... stage1 stage2 04 -

Re: Support for NT

2000-07-25 Thread Khimenko Victor
25-Jul-00 10:21 you wrote: Dave Siracusa writes: DS Question: Your web page mentions you support NT (chaining mode), DS can you elaborate? From the GRUB Manual (grub)Configuration: # For booting Windows NT or Windows95 title Windows NT / Windows 95 boot menu root

Re: netboot: ne2000 pci card hanging

2000-07-25 Thread OKUJI Yoshinori
From: Daniel Wagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: netboot: ne2000 pci card hanging Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 22:40:00 +0200 I tried to use the netboot facility, but with my ne2000 pci card, it wouldn't start right out of the box, so I checked the etherboot homepage and found a workaround

Re: Read Error with Asus P2B-L motherboard

2000-07-25 Thread OKUJI Yoshinori
From: Jonathan Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Read Error with Asus P2B-L motherboard Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 11:25:41 -0700 (PDT) No, the attempt to boot from a CD-ROM failed because there was no CD in the drive; stage1 and stage2 were on a floppy. Is that what you meant? Oh, yes.

BUG with grub menus

2000-07-25 Thread Dave
It's not a fatal bug but very annoying. The menu.lst file cannot be processed as usual for every user who has a boot partition mounted as /boot under linux because of the hard coded path for menu.lst in asmtub.c on line 89 in grub 0.5.95. Because of this I had to make another directory and