Re: Patch for more DUMB serial support

2002-01-15 Thread Christoph Plattner
Hello You are right, that some terminal do net send the text before pressing the return key, but then they send the text inclusive `return' key, and GRUB then interpretes the `return' key also, which leads to unwished reactions. I have spoken with Klaus, he will also have a look at the stuff.

Re: Re-installing an MBR

2002-01-15 Thread G.Roderick Singleton
Hmm. This is even worse than I expected. I trashed my XP MBA so badly I had to reload. I am trying fat to see if that improves things. I'll keep you posted on my experiment. Original Message On 1/15/02, 12:37:07 AM, Shaya Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: Re-installing an MBR:

Serial output sent to console

2002-01-15 Thread Steven R. Lilly
Hello, I am using GRUB version 0.90 (shipped with RedHat GNU/Linux 7.2). I am attempting to set up a system that presents the GRUB menu, kernel output, login prompt, etc. to the serial port instead of the monitor (the system will eventually have no keyboard or monitor). During the setup process,

Re: Re-installing an MBR

2002-01-15 Thread G.Roderick Singleton
I have now reloaded XP and RH7.2 using fat32 on the XP side and etx3(?) on RH. Works like a charm. Original Message On 1/15/02, 8:58:57 AM, G.Roderick Singleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: Re-installing an MBR: Hmm. This is even worse than I expected. I trashed my XP MBA so

Re: [Bug-grub] grub hide damaged my partition table

2002-01-15 Thread Joe Krahn
The problem is that grub didn't change the partition type. It destroyed the whole partition table, not just one partition. No partitons at all, not even a partition table signature! It had only 512 bytes of something like D0 FF. Fortunately I was able to recover everything. Maybe hiding the grub

RE: Serial output sent to console

2002-01-15 Thread Steven R. Lilly
Aha, I commented the splashimage line out of the grub.conf file, and now it seems to work fine. That's quite strange. Does the same problem occur with the genuine GRUB? Not sure, as I didn't try this. -Steve === Steven R. Lilly

Re: Patch for more DUMB serial support

2002-01-15 Thread Klaus Reichl
Hi Grubies, hi Okuji, Okuji == Yoshinori K Okuji [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Okuji Hello Christoph, Okuji I'm not familiar with dumb terminals, so can I ask a Okuji question? Is what motivated you because some dumb terminals Okuji cannot send inputs immediately until the user