Re: vmlinuz:No Multiboot Header

2001-04-02 Thread Christoph Plattner
This is a fact. The (standard) Linux kernel is not a mulitboot specified kernel. But GRUB cannot ONLY load kernels following the multiboot spec. GRUB also knows ELF binaries, Linux kernels (as they are), etc... Christoph P. Gregg C Levine wrote: Hello from Gregg C Levine normally

Re: Bug with separate boot partition and non-MBR install

2001-04-02 Thread Thomas Lyon Gideon
Jochen Hoenicke wrote: grub-0.5.96.1 doesn't support EZ-BIOS but when you install grub into a partition and do it from Grub floppy with EZ-BIOS loaded first, as you do, I don't see a problem. On a suggestion I found in the list archive for someone else with a similar problem, I grabbed the

Re: Couldn't boot from CD on IBM ThinkPad 600X

2001-04-02 Thread OKUJI Yoshinori
From: Jeff Sheinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Couldn't boot from CD on IBM ThinkPad 600X Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 13:49:10 -0500 Please post the patch directly to this list. The savannah web interface is not working for me. I have the same opinion. I often work in an off-line

Fw: Grub + elf section table

2001-04-02 Thread OKUJI Yoshinori
Last week, you told me on the bug-grub mailing list that if I wanted to be able to use the elf section table with grub, I should post a patch. So that is what I have done :-) This little patch is to be applied on a grub-0.5.96.1 source tree, that I download on the Web. I have tested it with

Re: Couldn't boot from CD on IBM ThinkPad 600X

2001-04-02 Thread Jochen Hoenicke
On Mar 31, Jeff Sheinberg wrote: Jochen Hoenicke writes: This reminds me of my booting from ZIP disk problem. I patched grub to read a fixed geometry from the boot sector, just as DOS does it. ... Please post the patch directly to this list. The savannah web interface is not

Re: Bug with separate boot partition and non-MBR install

2001-04-02 Thread Jochen Hoenicke
On Mar 31, Thomas Lyon Gideon wrote: [...] My BIOS apparently does not support the WD, so I had to install EZ-BIOS into the MBR of both drives. My partition table looks like: /dev/hda1 ext2 on /boot (I copied the grub images here, in grub, so they are accessible from /boot/grub once Linux

Re: passing back the unused memory pointer

2001-04-02 Thread Groman
I'd like to second that. That would be great. Especially if it would also come with the size of that unused memory segment... Can we pass the pointer to the first unused memory to the kernel being booted by GRUB? That way i have to avoid reading all the pointers from the multiboot struct to

Re: passing back the unused memory pointer

2001-04-02 Thread Rogelio Serrano
Groman wrote: I'd like to second that. That would be great. Especially if it would also come with the size of that unused memory segment... Can we pass the pointer to the first unused memory to the kernel being booted by GRUB? That way i have to avoid reading all the pointers from the