Re: SILO/GRUB coordination

2001-05-03 Thread Gordon Matzigkeit
[I'm adding [EMAIL PROTECTED] because I think it's relevant to the other GRUB developers, and I don't see that anything private has been said. Please accept my apologies if this was a bad call.] Ben Collins writes: BC On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 04:26:14PM +0200, Niels M?ller wrote: The good

grub, a laptop, APM and Windows

2001-05-03 Thread Ben Byer
Now that I've been able to install grub on my laptop, here's an odd problem. APM support breaks under Windows (98 and ME) if I boot through grub. FDISK /mba fixes it, but gets rid of grub. :( I tried commenting out the call to get_apm_info() in common.c, but that didn't change anything. FWIW,

Re: SILO/GRUB coordination

2001-05-03 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 10:24:55AM -0600, Gordon Matzigkeit wrote: BC SILO's stage one loader merely sets up the system so it can BC execute a second stage loader (it has a stage1 loader for sparc BC and sparc64). So it should be able to execute any sparc code as BC the second stage

Re: SILO/GRUB coordination

2001-05-03 Thread Christoph Plattner
Concerning the console: It makes sense to use the method of using the OpenBoot Console in GRUB (so GRUB ha only one configuration), the user selects the console in the OpenBoot environment as usal. (Example: in PA-RISC Linux also the kernel uses the HP PDC console (ROM console) for the initial