Slow Menu

2001-11-12 Thread Robert K.
Hi, from what is it dependent that the grub menu builds itself so slow? Does grub use bios-routines inside the rom? ___ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub

Re: GRUB embed function for stage1.5 broken??

2001-11-12 Thread Jochen Hoenicke
On Nov 9, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In putting in some extra consistency checks for the GRUB shell installer (and for Linux adding BMAP functionality for the stage2), I seem to have come across an issue... The setup builtin function will try to install a stage 1.5, but then overwrite it

serial problems with grub-0.90

2001-11-12 Thread Pragnesh Sampat
I am using redhat 7.1 (with a newer kernel) on an x86-pc. Installed grub in linux partition /boot/grub/*. The menu.lst is also in the same directory. I was able to boot using this config. This machine does not have a console. It has one serial port ttyS0/COM1 which is connected to another

Re: serial problems with grub-0.90

2001-11-12 Thread Jeremy Katz
On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 13:44, Pragnesh Sampat wrote: This machine does not have a console. It has one serial port ttyS0/COM1 which is connected to another x86 linux box with a serial cable. I was passing console=XXX options to lilo which I did with GRUB and I am at least where I was with the

Question: How do I rewrite MBR with existing RAID config?

2001-11-12 Thread William (Andy) Smith
I didn't see mention of this in the FAQ, though I attempted to emulate directions on installation. What I have done is RAID1 on /dev/hde and /dev/hdg so I've a root raid and raided swap. It rebooted fine, so grub has no trouble with the existing setup. I did a COLD swap of /dev/hde, so the

Re: serial problems with grub-0.90

2001-11-12 Thread Pragnesh Sampat
grub serial --unit=0 --speed=9600 Error 30: Invalid argument From the grub shell, you need to use something like grub serial --unit=/dev/ttyS0 --speed=9600 grub terminal serial Segmentation fault (core dumped) This segfault has been fixed in CVS. I got the CVS stuff and built

Re: serial problems with grub-0.90

2001-11-12 Thread Christoph Plattner
Hello ! For the thig you want to do, you have to add the two lines to your `menu.lst' file: serial --unit=0 --speed=9600 terminal --timeout=0 serial The the menu starts in the serial mode with the menu, and if you enter 'c', then also the command interpreter are running serial.

GRUB future plans

2001-11-12 Thread Grover, Andrew
Hi all, I just tried my first system with grub on it the other day and, after a little learning curve, I was impressed. Using a decent bootloader was a nice change from lilo. I was intrigued by grub's module-loading feature. So, for MultiBoot-compliant kernels you can also load modules? I am

Re: serial problems with grub-0.90

2001-11-12 Thread Pragnesh Sampat
For the thig you want to do, you have to add the two lines to your `menu.lst' file: serial --unit=0 --speed=9600 terminal --timeout=0 serial Yes, thanks, it works nicely now. I missed putting these lines in the menu.lst ... -Pragnesh