GRUB Manual

2001-11-08 Thread fischer
Dear Sirs, I read parts of the GRUB manual http://www.mcc.ac.uk/grub/ by Gordon Matzigkeit and Okuji Yoshinoro / 5 Jul 2001 The parts which interest me right now are missing: The structure of the MBR The format of partition tables but They did exist earlier - say in september. Will the authors

grub on fat32

2001-11-08 Thread Domas Savickas
How can I use grub to boot linux off fat32 partition? The distribution is loopback device based, so it's possible to load it using loadlin.exe, but the problem is that I can't load it from win2k. Maybe it'd possible to copy GRUB stage1 to file and boot linux using win2k's boot.ini? TIA Domas

Re: GRUB Manual

2001-11-08 Thread Ian Duggan
The parts which interest me right now are missing: The structure of the MBR The format of partition tables This site is a good collection of stuff like this. Specifically, look in the Partitions section. http://www.nondot.org/sabre/os/articles -- Ian

Re: GRUB Manual

2001-11-08 Thread Robert K.
Link to a grat site! Thanks Ian Duggan schrieb: The parts which interest me right now are missing: The structure of the MBR The format of partition tables This site is a good collection of stuff like this. Specifically, look in the Partitions section.

Re: pxe works!

2001-11-08 Thread Adrian Phillips
David == David A van Leeuwen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David The only thing that i don't understand is that i had to David compile in a choice for the network card hardware David (--enable-eepro100) while in fact i only wanted to compile David pxegrub---and isn't PXE giving me a

Re: grub on fat32

2001-11-08 Thread Jochen Hoenicke
On Nov 8, Domas Savickas wrote: How can I use grub to boot linux off fat32 partition? The simplest way is to copy all grub files to the fat32 partition to the directory c:\boot\grub or c:\grub, and then install grub the normal way into the MBR, using the fat32 partition as root. distribution

Re: pxe works!

2001-11-08 Thread Mario Klebsch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thursday, 8. November 2001 11:59, David A. van Leeuwen wrote: I wanted to make a completely diskless workstation (Linux) and studied the various HOWTOs about them for several days. The client network card included PXE support (it's an intel express

grub bug

2001-11-08 Thread Leonzo E. Miller III
This may be a needed feature. That Grub search all hardrives for additional Linux installations and provide booting options for them. -- Det. Leonzo E. Miller Palm Beach County Sherrif's Office Truancy Interdiction Center Delray Beach, Florida Voice: (561) 274-1053 FAX: (561) 274-1054

[PATCH] Hiding of elements of the boot selection menu

2001-11-08 Thread Jochen Schmitt
Hallo, i have installed grub-0.90 from the RH 7.2 RPM. This version of grub contains the VGA16-patch, whicht allow you to display a splashscreen. After I have try out it, I thought, it may be helpful, if you cann hide the box drawed arround the menu, the usage text and/or the timer countdown.

initrd

2001-11-08 Thread Jason Thomas
hi all, its been brought to my attention that if the initrd image is bigger than the 4meg then the usual defaul ramdisk size of 4meg will not do. so to make this work you need something like. ramdisk_size=16384 on the kernel command line. should we maybe document this in the grub doco.

RE: pxe works!

2001-11-08 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine obviously with Jedi Knight Computers I have been studying Ether Boot, and the behavior of the 3COM family of cards, the 3C905 family to be exact. I run Slackware Linux here, when I am not working with Windows, and I am curious as to how you accomplished that. Basically