Re: stage1_5, How does it work? Plus New Filesystem

2001-01-19 Thread OKUJI Yoshinori
Shaun, please post your messages to bug-grub. From: Shaun Savage [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: stage1_5, How does it work? Plus New Filesystem Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 10:28:13 +0100 Compressed Block Device is a linux kernel driver that does demand decompression of the filesystem. It is not a

Re: stage1_5, How does it work? Plus New Filesystem

2001-01-19 Thread Shaun Savage
OKUJI Yoshinori wrote: Shaun, please post your messages to bug-grub. Compressed Block Device is a linux kernel driver that does demand decompression of the filesystem. It is not a file system to speak of, it is a block device BUT the partition "image" can have the kernel in it,

Linux RAID support - kindof

2001-01-19 Thread Danilo Godec
Here is a patch that adds a kind of Sofrware-RAID support for Linux. Linux software RAID uses partition type 0xfd to mark a partition as a part of RAID array. Grub (by default) decides this partition type is unknown and won't mount it as ext2 (in my case, it is...). This patch changes this so

Next Issue

2001-01-19 Thread Shaun Savage
HI More details on what I want to do. Right now I am booting off the floppy. So I 'dd if=cbd_stage1_5 /dev/fd0 bs=512 seek=1" to write the stage1.5 on the floppy. Then I start interactive grub and "install= (hd0,0)/grub/stage1 d (fd0) (fd0)1+17 0x2000" *NOTE* I found out that I need the +17 to

outport and inport command

2001-01-19 Thread assaf stoler
Hi all, I have run into a problem using grub on hardware with watchdog enabled, since it might take to long for the initrd / kernel decompression stage, and the watch god boots the system, in order to overcome, I tried to re-set the watchdog timer by writing 0x1 to io port 230 (my hardware), but

Windows safe mode

2001-01-19 Thread Michael Bauers
Now that I have GRUB as my boot loadeder I can't figure out how to boot to Windows safe mode. Anyone have any advice? ___ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub

Re: outport and inport command

2001-01-19 Thread OKUJI Yoshinori
From: assaf stoler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: outport and inport command Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 08:15:31 -0800 I have run into a problem using grub on hardware with watchdog enabled, since it might take to long for the initrd / kernel decompression stage, and the watch god boots the system,

Re: Windows safe mode

2001-01-19 Thread OKUJI Yoshinori
From: Michael Bauers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Windows safe mode Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 11:48:35 -0600 Now that I have GRUB as my boot loadeder I can't figure out how to boot to Windows safe mode. IIRC, you can enter a menu to select an unusual mode (such as "safe mode"), if you put a key

Re: Windows safe mode

2001-01-19 Thread Andreas Reich
OKUJI Yoshinori ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: OY IIRC, you can enter a menu to select an unusual mode (such as "safe OY mode"), if you put a key when Windows boots up. Unfortunately, I don't OY remember what the key is, but the key might be F2, F4, or something OY similar. See Windows manuals,