From: Jason Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: xfs and jfs
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 16:48:23 +1000
Hi, is there a reason why the xfs/jfs patches at:
http://tzukanov.narod.ru/grub-jfs_xfs/
are not in grub cvs?
Yes. Because neither Tzukanov nor I have no time to check it in to the
CVS. :p
Okuji
The user would be greatly aided in finding the real problem when
grub-install fails if more care were taken to determine what the user
actually did wrong and issue an appropriate error message.
In particular, one user asking for help on irc on channel #hurd
(irc.openprojects.net) complained that
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Is there some way to run multiple commands in the same line in the
interpreter? (ie cmd1;cmd2) We are trying to script node booting in a
cluster, and the boot commands can't be static; also the program
keeping track of this stuff doesn't really have any conception of
state. (we could prefer not
grub-install runs the grub shell which creates the device.map so a check
if it exists in the location specified won't work.
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 12:23:22PM -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote:
grub-install --root-directory=/boot '(hd0)'
He got this error message:
Probing devices to guess BIOS
anyone farmiliar with this code:
/* Hide/Unhide CURRENT_PARTITION. */
int
set_partition_hidden_flag (int hidden)
{
char mbr[512];
if (current_drive 0x80)
{
int part = current_partition 16;
if (part 3)
{
errnum = ERR_NO_PART;
return 0;
On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Jason Thomas wrote:
anyone farmiliar with this code:
/* Hide/Unhide CURRENT_PARTITION. */
int
set_partition_hidden_flag (int hidden)
{
char mbr[512];
[...]
if (! rawread (current_drive, 0, 0, SECTOR_SIZE, mbr))
return 0;
[...]
I'm trying to
This explanation sound feasible to me!
Thanks.
On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 01:35:12PM +1000, Daniel Pittman wrote:
You do know that Extended Partitions are implemented by putting a
partition table at the start of a normal partition, because there is a
fixed limit of four partitions in an MS-DOS
