On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote:
Hello,
It is. But why not let users to break the rules, when they accept that
it should be dangerous for them.
I have already told my position. In addition, this is my own
philosophy:
If you don't like a rule, don't break the rule.
Hello,
when testing my --force-bpb patch to boot from zip (see next mail), I
noticed that --force-lba does not work in stage2. If --force-lba is
set, stage2 will never use lba.
The fix is simple, see attached patch. Should I check it in?
Jochen
diff -ur grub/stage2/asm.S
On Jul 24, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote:
From: "Jochen Hoenicke" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Problems booting with LS-120 drive
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 11:20:20 +0200 (MET DST)
It is possible to change grub to honor the fields in the DOS boot
sector. I wrote a patch some time ago, but it
26-Jul-00 01:33 you wrote:
It's not a fatal bug but very annoying.
Of course it's not fatal bug, it's not even bug at all if you'll think about it:
GRUB knows NOTHING about what's mounted where. And that's good, that's how GRUB
was designed and how it should work. So it's feature, not bug.
If that's a feature I am going to put my resume in with Microsoft!
:)
Dave
On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Khimenko Victor wrote:
26-Jul-00 01:33 you wrote:
It's not a fatal bug but very annoying.
Of course it's not fatal bug, it's not even bug at all if you'll think about it:
GRUB knows
26-Jul-00 07:48 you wrote:
If that's a feature I am going to put my resume in with Microsoft!
:)
Go full speed. It IS feature. It's VERY simple in fact. GRUB is NOT linux
loader. It can load ANY number of different OSes from different partitions.
Thus it DOES NOT have ANY knowleadge about
Jochen Hoenicke writes:
JH The fix is simple, see attached patch. Should I check it in?
It looks good to me, go ahead.
--
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Committed to freedom and diversity \// I use GNU (http://www.gnu.org/)
This is what the caldera install does as well. Create symlink loop as
/boot/boot back to boot.
Dave wrote:
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
Peter Astrand writes:
Excuse me but I did in fact read the documentation. Iwasn't being
serious bout the microsoft comment. Please calm down. With an
attitude like that no one will use grub. (I am the only person I
know who does).
PA I agree. Sometimes it seems like people on this
OKUJI Yoshinori writes:
OY First, I'm sorry that I was absent for about one week (but, to
OY say honestly, I'm wondering why the development of GNU GRUB
OY depends on me so much).
Sorry for my inconsistency. I am torn between the new design I am
trying to do for Figure, and getting GRUB to
On 26. July 2000 Nathaniel Pendleton wrote:
Grub has been taking lessons from roarches, I spray and lay traps but it
wont leave me alone.
I select Windows in grub, and what happens, grub restarts!
Grub is the C:?
I had some difficulty getting Grub to install with the Mandrake 7.1
That ought to do it!! Thanks. I have to shift my sight from the linux
root filesystem implementation to tthe partition I boot from.
Dave
On 26 Jul 2000, Pixel wrote:
Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think its great but you need to realize that most grub users are ex-lilo
people. I
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