Re: [Bug-grub] Grub network booting

2001-12-07 Thread Christoph Plattner
Hello, First of all, the 8256EM, is this the number of the chip on it. If this is the chip nunber, then it is definitlo NO eepro100 NIC. Chips relating to the eepro100 standard are: 82557, 82558, 82559 and 82559ER. Further the GRUB driver for the eepro100 is not on the current state of eepro100

Refresh rate change.

2001-12-07 Thread Hans Deragon
Greetings. I have not found any documents on the net on how to setup the video mode use by grub. I suspect that such feature does not exist. Probably it has been asked before, but it would be nice if one could set the refresh rate of the graphical interface of grub. 60Hz is very

GRUB profile definition

2001-12-07 Thread Marco Battaglieri
To whom it may concern, I'm running Linux redhat 7.2 and I'm trying to download a linuxconfig-profile at boot time using the following line in /boot/grub/grub.conf: kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.7-10 ro root=/dev/hda3 hdc=ide-scsi PROFILE=my_profile but the action seems to not have any effect:

poor error reporting from embed; stage1_5 size?

2001-12-07 Thread Eric Mumpower
Some disk-partitioning software, e.g. the somewhat popular cfdisk tool under Linux, offer the option of maximizing your partitions. Among other things, will can cause the first partition to start in sector #1 (i.e. the sector immediately following the MBR). Perhaps obviously, this leaves no space

Re: poor error reporting from embed; stage1_5 size?

2001-12-07 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
At 07 Dec 2001 16:37:39 -0500, Eric Mumpower wrote: This error message is almost completely useless. If it's possible to improve it, that would be very useful. If not, it would be nice to mention this behavior somewhere in the GRUB documentation. What message do you think is better? No disk

Re: poor error reporting from embed; stage1_5 size?

2001-12-07 Thread Eric Mumpower
What message do you think is better? No disk space or something else? No disk space is a little vague. No unused sectors at location seems more clear. We have been trying to keep ffs_stage1_5 less than 7168 bytes (14 sectors) and some others less than 31744 bytes (62 sectors). How hard a

[chrish@debian.org: Bug#122905: grub exits when receiving SIGWINCH]

2001-12-07 Thread Jason Thomas
heres a new one. I really don't have a problem with it, is there a reason for this, can we change it/should we change it. - Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 00:23:17 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Bug#122905: grub exits