Re: More analysis to the old problem with etherboot+GRUB (diskless/disk)

2001-02-22 Thread Thierry Laronde
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 09:45:55AM +0100, Christoph Plattner wrote: Hello GRUB and Etherboot people, finally I had some time to further analysing the problem, I describer a week ago. The problem was: I can boot our (company's) OS (multiboot, loaded at 1MB) with a GRUB booted by

Re: [Etherboot-developers] More analysis to the old problem with etherboot+GRUB (diskless/disk)

2001-02-22 Thread Christoph Plattner
Further experiment: It has nothing to do with the DISKLESS GRUB version. I booted the "diskless GRUB" from floppy, prepared in the following way: in stage2/ : cat start diskless stage2-diskless then stage1 and stage2 on a floppy with `dd' ... and booted. This GRUB

Re: More analysis to the old problem with etherboot+GRUB (diskless/disk)

2001-02-22 Thread Christoph Plattner
Yes, a Linux kernel works, or seems to work. We don't know, if there is a wrong byte in the code. GRUB loads out multiboot kernel at 1MB and beyond. Christoph P. - private:[EMAIL PROTECTED] company:

Re: How to reorder the boot list ??

2001-02-22 Thread matthias
Put the entry for windows first. On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Daniel Wong wrote: Hi I just want to find out how to re-order the boot list to have windows at the top... I can't find the instructions anywhere.. Thanks Daniel Wong UIN:

Problems installing grub on a 'raid' disk

2001-02-22 Thread fat32
Hello, I tried to install grub on a mirror disk drived by hardware raid. The raid is adaptec 7899 + dell options, working with a linux 2.2.18 aacraid drivers v1.0.7, two disks from raid adapters : sda (raid1) sdb (raid5), no ide, no other scsi perif. I first configured

Re: [Etherboot-developers] More analysis to the old problem with etherboot+GRUB (diskless/disk)

2001-02-22 Thread Marty Connor
On 2/22/2001 6:00 AM Christoph Plattner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there something done or initialized in `stage1' or `start.S' which is missed anywhere in `stage2' or `diskless'. I have not found anything. My first idea was the STACK, but it is defined in `asm.S'. The only thing `start.S'

Re: ack! grub bug...

2001-02-22 Thread Christoph Plattner
Hello, as I already described before, my prefered solution to the problem is the use of a kind of variables in GRUB like $MEM, $IP, $SERVER_IP, etc, etc,... So the user can decide himeself using kernel paramters, like kernel /boot/vmlinuz mem=$MEM root=/dev/hda2 etc If

Re: ack! grub bug...

2001-02-22 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hello, Christoph! as I already described before, my prefered solution to the problem is the use of a kind of variables in GRUB like $MEM, $IP, $SERVER_IP, etc, etc,... I was unaware of your proposal. It's an excelent idea, much better than my "--mem-option". Regards, Pavel Roskin

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

2001-02-22 Thread OKUJI Yoshinori
From: Christoph Plattner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED]] Re: ack! grub bug... Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 09:16:16 +0100 So the user can decide himeself using kernel paramters, like kernel /boot/vmlinuz mem=$MEM root=/dev/hda2 etc If there is enough

Re: [Etherboot-developers] More analysis to the old problem with etherboot+GRUB (diskless/disk)

2001-02-22 Thread OKUJI Yoshinori
From: Marty Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Etherboot-developers] More analysis to the old problem with etherboot+GRUB (diskless/disk) Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 10:08:00 -0500 What I am wondering is if txb at 0x1 is incompatible with something that grub is doing. I think the only

Re: ack! grub bug...

2001-02-22 Thread Jeff Garzik
OKUJI Yoshinori wrote: From: Pavel Roskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ack! grub bug... Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 10:06:01 -0500 (EST) I believe that "--no-mem-option" should become default. "--mem-option" should be introduced instead for the kernels that still need it. I agree, but