Re: Hiding and unhiding with set active?

2001-02-21 Thread Treutwein; Bernhard
Tim Rivers-Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] title=DOS6.22 root=(hd0,0) unhide makeactive chainloader+1 (hd0,1) hide shouldn't it read: root=(hd0,0) unhide (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader+1 hide (hd0,1) maybe that you can omit the partition in unhide (hd0,0) but afaik you have to

Re: Hiding and unhiding with set active?

2001-02-21 Thread Thierry DELHAISE
Tim Rivers-Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] title=DOS6.22 root=(hd0,0) unhide makeactive chainloader+1 (hd0,1) hide shouldn't it read: root=(hd0,0) unhide (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader+1 hide (hd0,1) maybe that you can omit the partition in unhide (hd0,0) but afaik you have to

Re: Source for booting CDs

2001-02-21 Thread OKUJI Yoshinori
From: Thierry Laronde [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Source for booting CDs Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 11:27:53 +0100 As far as I know, GRUB started from the *BSD bootloader, and this license is a free one, AFAIK. Does it cause a problem to start working with it in order to include the support in

FYI: GRUB size reduced

2001-02-21 Thread Thierry Laronde
OK, so I have made some various tests, and in particular, as suggested by Okuji, suppressed the long help messages. I have put out all the debug functions, the "sugar" (find, setkey, color --- if one wants colors, he can use A_NORMAL and A_REVERSE to define them at compile time), but

Re: FYI: GRUB size reduced

2001-02-21 Thread OKUJI Yoshinori
From: Thierry Laronde [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FYI: GRUB size reduced Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 16:27:53 +0100 The result is a 66372 Ko stage2, and I find this size reasonable for an installation floppy, if combined with the use of an extended format (I have not tested at the moment the

booting on an iso file

2001-02-21 Thread damsnet
Hi, I would like to know if GRUB is able to boot on the image file of a bootable cd (which would be stored somewhere on the harddrive). I need that because I am working on a Linux distrib working on a cd, an I would like to test the images before burning them. Or if you know an other boot loader

Re: ack! grub bug...

2001-02-21 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Pavel Roskin wrote: grub -always- passes the "mem=XXX" command line option to the kernel. it's always been that way... It works around a kernel bug. That is wrong in and of itself. A kernel bug fix belongs in the kernel, not in grub. I remember a

Re: [Jeff Garzik jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com] Re: ack! grub bug...

2001-02-21 Thread OKUJI Yoshinori
From: Pixel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED]] Re: ack! grub bug... Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 23:40:39 +0100 (CET) It works around a kernel bug. That is wrong in and of itself. A kernel bug fix belongs in the kernel, not in grub. You're just talking about an utopia.

Re: GRUB...

2001-02-21 Thread Olivier Galibert
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 02:34:35PM -0800, Andrew Hawkins wrote: i recently uninstalled linux and merged my partitions together back into my windows partition and for some reason i cannot get into my windows because GRUB comes up and i have no idea what to type because it asks for something i

[Jeff Garzik jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com] Re: ack! grub bug...

2001-02-21 Thread Pixel
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GRUB...

2001-02-21 Thread Andrew Hawkins
i recently uninstalled linux and merged my partitions together back into my windows partition and for some reason i cannot get into my windows because GRUB comes up and i have no idea what to type because it asks for something i have no idea what it is looking for. what should i do?

Re: FYI: GRUB size reduced

2001-02-21 Thread Thierry Laronde
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 02:39:26AM +0900, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote: However, I think it will be the best way to compress the most part of stage2, in the future. The size of pre_stage2 is about 86kb by default, and the size of pre_stage2.gz is about 46kb. Because the bootstrap code is 1kb and