Re: Change in fsys_reiserfs.c

2000-10-04 Thread OKUJI Yoshinori
Gordon, please apply this: Index: ChangeLog === RCS file: /home/cvs/grub/ChangeLog,v retrieving revision 1.326 diff -u -r1.326 ChangeLog --- ChangeLog 2000/09/30 17:56:29 1.326 +++ ChangeLog 2000/10/04 12:44:20 @@ -1,3

Re: Change in fsys_reiserfs.c

2000-10-04 Thread Gordon Matzigkeit
OKUJI Yoshinori writes: OY Gordon, please apply this: Done. -- Gordon Matzigkeit [EMAIL PROTECTED] //\ I'm a FIG (http://fig.org/) Committed to freedom and diversity \// I use GNU (http://www.gnu.org/) ___ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL

Bug#72311: arch-specific files in /usr/share

2000-10-04 Thread Gordon Matzigkeit
Wichert Akkerman writes: WA /usr/share/grub contains i386-specific files; they should be WA moved to /usr/lib/grub. But they aren't Linux-specific. I thought it was the right thing to put them in a hardware-named subdirectory of /usr/share/grub. That way, /usr/share could still be usefully

Re: Advice on NFS support in grub

2000-10-04 Thread Christoph Plattner
Of course, that's crazy, as NFS is a file system (file and directory level) and int 13 is block device level and geometry inclusive. But perhaps the new network block devices in the new linux kernel can help here. I have no experience with that, but as far as I know, the block device itself is

Re: How to remove Grub ?

2000-10-04 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer wrote: Under msdos, fdisk /mbr. maybe this kinda feature could be in grub shell. Some people doesn't have msdos disks anymore... On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 01:34:43PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I have removed my linux partition (a

failsafe booting..

2000-10-04 Thread Andrew
hi, I was wondering if someone could give me some advice regarding grub and or bootloaders. What i'm trying to achieve is failsafe bootloading of a kernel when a kernel upgrade to a remote server has occurred. I have to be sure that the machine will reboot successfully. Because I will not have

Re: failsafe booting..

2000-10-04 Thread OKUJI Yoshinori
From: Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: failsafe booting.. Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 11:07:01 +0930 At boot time the bootloader would change the default kernel to the failsafe one and boot the new kernel. Thus if the new kernel hangs, the machine will after a certain amount of time reboot ( with

Re: failsafe booting..

2000-10-04 Thread Andrew
At boot time the bootloader would change the default kernel to the failsafe one and boot the new kernel. Thus if the new kernel hangs, the machine will after a certain amount of time reboot ( with the help of a watchdog card designed for this purppose). I don't think this is always

Re: failsafe booting..

2000-10-04 Thread OKUJI Yoshinori
From: Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: failsafe booting.. Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 13:16:02 +0930 (CST) why not ? I'm looking for a way to change the kernel which is being booted automatically rather than from the grub prompt, if we can choose at the console what kernel i wish to boot ? why

Re: failsafe booting..

2000-10-04 Thread Andrew
why not ? I'm looking for a way to change the kernel which is being booted automatically rather than from the grub prompt, if we can choose at the console what kernel i wish to boot ? why can't I have some mechanism of changing the kernel which is booted automatically. perhaps i did not

Re: failsafe booting..

2000-10-04 Thread OKUJI Yoshinori
From: Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: failsafe booting.. Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 13:32:34 +0930 (CST) I dont wish to communicate with the bootlaoder at all. Its a simple matter of changing the default kernel to a failsafe one, so that if the new kernel fails the failsafe one will boot