Fw: Reports on using GRUB

2000-09-05 Thread OKUJI Yoshinori
Hello. I have been using GRUB only for a short while, and yet I find it very useful. So much that I wanted to report you my success booting BeOS and OpenBSD. I thought you'd like to know. To boot BeOS 5.0 (first HDD, second primary partition, native BeOS installation, BeOS fs - EB): #

Re: BeOS loader

2000-09-05 Thread Gordon Matzigkeit
OKUJI Yoshinori writes: OY BTW, Gordon, what do you think about BeOS support? Obviously, OY BeOS is proprietary software, so I'm not sure if we should accept OY patches for such an OS. I have no problem accepting patches... I would only ask the typical GNU question: ``Will it make life

question about grub

2000-09-05 Thread Roman.Jordan
Hi all, i am absolute new in the area of bootloaders other than lilo. Someone told me, that if i want to use Linux, the best boot solution is grub. But at the documentation i found that it is only for booting bsd like systems. I have to boot WinNT, Win98, DOS and (the best) linux. Is this

Re: question about grub

2000-09-05 Thread Alessandro Rubini
Hello Roman. Someone told me, that if i want to use Linux, the best boot solution is grub. GRUB is more featured than Lilo: it can access a filesystem to load kernel files, has a powerful command-line interface (with help) to use if you have troubles at boot time. And it can natively load

Re: GRUB!!!!!

2000-09-05 Thread Roger W. Best
I appreciate the differentiation of the kernal from the operating system, BUT you did NOT address the problem of why there is NOT any documentation anywhere on the PLANET EARTH that instructs or demonstrates HOW in the HECK to get the"Grub" boot loader off of a SYSTEM! Roger Best -