Disclaimer: I didn't try it out recently, my comments come from reading
the code.
There is a serious problem with "serial" in my opinion. Why does it
wait for user input?
(sorry, it was "terminal serial")
Because the user may not run a terminal emulator, when GRUB starts up.
But the user
From: Alessandro Rubini [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Serial (was: patch for the commands chapter)
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 11:35:15 +0200
But the user may not run a local console when the "terminal" command
is executed from the configuration file.
You are completely misunderstanding that. When
I haven't fixed the real cause of the bug in embed_func yet, but
this patch will purge it. Anyway, this patch is necessary to make the
command "setup" more robust. Gordon, please apply this, and you don't
have to wait until I fix the cause any longer. I will fix it in the
next version.
Index:
This fixes the compilation problems, must be applied on top of my
patch of this night.
--- ./user-ref.texi Fri Oct 6 14:35:02 2000
+++ ./user-ref.texi Fri Oct 6 14:43:09 2000
@@ -519,7 +519,7 @@
@end deffn
-@node Command-line and menu commands::
+@node Command-line and menu
Alessandro Rubini writes:
AR While documenting the new commands, I noted that the code in
AR stage2.c has a bug: the "--port" and "--speed" arguments are
AR swapped: "--port" sets the speed and "--speed" sets the port.
I've applied this patch, thanks.
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OKUJI Yoshinori writes:
OY I haven't fixed the real cause of the bug in embed_func yet,
OY but this patch will purge it. Anyway, this patch is necessary to
OY make the command "setup" more robust. Gordon, please apply this,
OY and you don't have to wait until I fix the cause any longer. I
Alessandro Rubini writes:
AR The patch cleans up and completes the "Commands" chapter. The
AR clean up is in explaining more clearly what the three groups of
AR commands are (I didn't understand at a first reading), and some
AR minor rewording were I was sure the text was worse than it
Gregg C Levine writes:
GCL Hello from Gregg C Levine Can anyone post the rules for
GCL accessing the CVS store, for GRUB?
If you still need help, there are instructions at
http://www.gnu.org/software/devel.html#CVS
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Alessandro Rubini writes:
AR I agree that it is a detail, and subject to personal judjment,
AR but that entry gives a very bad impression when one prints the
AR docs.
AR It's up to you, anyways.
I will pay more attention to the manual before the 1.0 release. There
are other things (such
I'm pleased to announce release 0.5.96 of GNU GRUB, which is the
*final* test release of GRUB. The next release will be GRUB 1.0, so
we appreciate you testing 0.5.96 to help us make 1.0 stable.
You can get 0.5.96 from:
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/
Also available in that directory is
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severity 42242 fixed
Bug#42242: grub: GRUB no longer includes HTML documentation
Bug#42273: Documentation files removed in update of grub
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severity 42273 fixed
Bug#42273: Documentation files removed in update of grub
Hi GRUBers !
I am not happy with this idea behind the thing. I thought the
"press any key" is only for the first development state, not
for the release.
I have a non-standard oppinion, but for me GRUB is correct
the other way round. Default is serial and a video+keyboard
is a special feature
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Greetings...
I have been using the Yellow Dog Linux in a RS6000-F50 IBM server but
about some time... Until now no one was able to manage the boot from
HD because these machines use the Open Firmware "BIOS"...
The reference is this:
From: Christoph Plattner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Serial (was: patch for the commands chapter)
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 01:20:55 +0200
First of all, I really want to have the possibility to activate
serial console by a build switch (at ./configure), to have
serial support, even if there
Alessandro Rubini writes:
AR This fixes the compilation problems, must be applied on top of my
AR patch of this night.
Thanks, I did these already.
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Alessandro Rubini writes:
AR This changes "setkey" documentation in the following way:
AR * explains that the from_key is from the american keymap
This part of your patch is fine.
AR * remove the one-and-a-half page list which is mostly a duplicate
AR of the previous inline list. The
It may make the DVI more readable, but it makes the Info worse. Using
`@var{some-name}' produces `SOME-NAME' under Info,
Yes, I've seen it. An option os using no marker at all, leaving the
names in roman in the dvi version. I think list entry like it is now
looks very unprofessional (both
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