Re: GRUB plans...

2001-10-24 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
At Wed, 17 Oct 2001 17:54:10 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you planning on completing your VM86 implementation in the reasonably near future? If not, I could complete/robustify mine. No. Please finish up your own implementation! I'd look at yours. :) I think we talked a little bit

source tree organization (Was: Re: GRUB plans...)

2001-10-24 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
[I send this message to the list, since I'd like everyone to know what the official maintainer thinks.] I see Thierry's point about the organization of the source tree and the documentation system. For now, I'm thinking these about the organization: * Making a small libc-like library. Currently

linux boot hangs with grub

2001-10-24 Thread Simon J. Rees
I have W2K and Redhat 7.1 on a new system. Redhat put lilo in the MBR but I would like to use grub to make a dual boot setup. I have compiled grub-0.90 and used grub-install to make a grub boot floppy. Using the floppy I can get the grub console and I can boot W2K fine. To try and boot linux I

grub 0.90 prevents Standby in Windows

2001-10-24 Thread A.Mueller
Hello, first I've got to accomplish you for having written the best bootmanager I know. As already mentioned in the subject I recently had a problem installing Version 0.90 , coming with Linux Mandrake 8.1. My system: AMD Athlon 900 MHZ (Slot) AMD Chipset Riva TNT2 384 mb RAM Soundblaster

Re: [Bug-grub] linux boot hangs with grub

2001-10-24 Thread Jason Thomas
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 11:26:20AM -0500, Simon J. Rees wrote: output from fdisk /dev/hda: Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 5005 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 2295 184345567

Re: [Bug-grub] errors booting md0 on hpt-370 w/ redhat 7.2

2001-10-24 Thread Jason Thomas
I don't really now what the problem is that your experiencing but as for a hpt-370 and and IBM drive not good. you won't get the full speed from the drive if its one of the following: const char *bad_ata100_5[] = { IBM-DTLA-307075, IBM-DTLA-307060, IBM-DTLA-307045,

Re: [Bug-grub] grub bootdisk help (if time permits)

2001-10-24 Thread Jason Thomas
to do this (which I have never done), you would have to create a filesystem on the boot floppy and make a directory called /boot/grub and put the menu.lst file in there. this directory should also contain all the grub images as well which should be copied by grub-install. On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at

Re: [Bug-grub] grub bootdisk help (solved, my apologies)

2001-10-24 Thread Isomer1
errr, sorry 'bout that, i didn't see the link to the info page at the bottom of the man page. the info page has an explanation on how to make the basic bootdisk. i'd looked on the website too, but maybe i just missed it. if its not there it might be a good idea to put something up, i'd imagine

Re: grub bootdisk help (if time permits)

2001-10-24 Thread Derrik Pates
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: in the mean time i'm trying to get around the problems by creating a grub bootdisk. I looked through the mailing list archives and found a suggestion by Derrick Pates, but I'm having a bit of trouble. I did (1) grub-install

Re: [Bug-grub] linux boot hangs with grub

2001-10-24 Thread Adrian Phillips
Jason == Jason Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jason On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 11:26:20AM -0500, Simon J. Rees Jason wrote: output from fdisk /dev/hda: Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 5005 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End

Re: [Bug-grub] linux boot hangs with grub

2001-10-24 Thread Jason Thomas
okay, cool I never new that! On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 07:22:40AM +0200, Adrian Phillips wrote: Actually from fstab :- Instead of giving the device explicitly, one may indicate the (ext2) filesystem that is to be mounted by its UUID or volume label (cf. e2label(8)),

New version of `mkbimage'

2001-10-24 Thread Thierry Laronde
Hello, A new version of the script allowing the creation of bootable virtual disks, with ext2, minix or fat12 fs and the GRUB (patched) is here: http://corpus.polynum.org/admin/mkbimage Cheers, -- Thierry Laronde (Alceste) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D