hacking on boot.c to add PE, COFF, LE executables...

2001-12-11 Thread Dark Fiber
boot.c is a complete mess geared to only load elf files (and hack a.out into some sembelance of an elf file wrt text/data/bss). I want to add LE, PE and COFF to its executable loading, but this requires huge changes in boot.c (i get TONNES!! of email from ppl about booting homebrew kernels

Re: hacking on boot.c to add PE, COFF, LE executables...

2001-12-11 Thread Alex Thiel
On Tuesday 11 December 2001 14:38, Dark Fiber wrote: boot.c is a complete mess geared to only load elf files (and hack a.out into some sembelance of an elf file wrt text/data/bss). I want to add LE, PE and COFF to its executable loading, but this requires huge changes in boot.c (i get

RE: [Bug-grub] Reiserfs bug? Builld problem?

2001-12-11 Thread COFFMAN Steven
When I try to rebuild grub with the patch, I get GRUB requires a working absolute objcopy; upgrade your binutils. Since those binutils RedHat 7.2 used to build their grub, I don't know if there's a patch for those I need to apply first to my binutils or what. -Steve -Original Message-

Re: [Bug-grub] Problem with grub (?)

2001-12-11 Thread Jason Thomas
fdisk /mbr On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 01:30:31PM +, Tom Mortimer wrote: Hi I'm having a problem with grub, after using it successfuly with Windows 98 and Linux (Mandrake) i decided to remove linux, so i just deleted the linux drive partition(!) Now my machine (P2 333, 192 Mb 13 Gb HDD)

Booting in Vmware 3.0 problems

2001-12-11 Thread Adi Alurkar
I have the following config: Dual boot with Win2kPro and RH 7.2, I used GRUB to configure multiboot. I am evaluating vmware 3.0 on both Win2kPro and RH 7.2 to boot into the other natively installed OS. Vmware goes thru BIOS run and MEM test and then hangs all that is displayed on the scren is