Re: How is size of kernel found? What exactly do the memory numbers mean?

2002-01-25 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
At Thu, 24 Jan 2002 22:58:08 -0600, Phil Frost wrote: gcc, ld, or 2 ELF specs that I looked at. An objdump -t of my kernel reveals that there is no _end symbol. Is it possible at all to obtain the size of the kernel? Are you using your own linker script? Also, I am unable to find the

Re: Problem booting from SCSI drive...

2002-01-25 Thread Christian Hammers
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 11:06:46PM -0600, Paul Armor wrote: stage2 and menu.lst (the setup command from the GRUB prompt says all is good) from SCSI:/boot/grub/*. Everything looks good, 'til I try to boot, when I get that pesky GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB... scrolling by. Any thoughts? I fixed it by

Re: Problem booting from SCSI drive...

2002-01-25 Thread Paul Armor
Hmmm, firstly, this is a SCSI drive, so I have no BIOS control. I'm most confused by my ability to boot from a floppy, but with the same configs, I can't boot from the SCSI disk... the SCSI disk has FreeBSD, and I'm chainloading /boot/loader from the SCSI disk. Any other ideas? Thanks! Paul

Re: How is size of kernel found? What exactly do the memory numbers mean?

2002-01-25 Thread Phil Frost
Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: At Thu, 24 Jan 2002 22:58:08 -0600, Phil Frost wrote: gcc, ld, or 2 ELF specs that I looked at. An objdump -t of my kernel reveals that there is no _end symbol. Is it possible at all to obtain the size of the kernel? Are you using your own linker script?

Re: How is size of kernel found? What exactly do the memory numbers mean?

2002-01-25 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
At Fri, 25 Jan 2002 06:15:19 -0600, Phil Frost wrote: No, i'm using ld and gcc, all standard development tools. They are both straight from the debian packages. One thing to note is that I'm building a kernel, not a linux application, so I compile with -nostdinc which means that nothing,

RFE for password protection

2002-01-25 Thread Han Holl
Hello, LILO password protection means that the user can do _nothing_ but boot the default kernel without password. I can get this behaviour with grub by protecting all entries but the default with 'lock', but this is rather tedious and can easily lead to errors. A global option:

Where to find Grub video modes?

2002-01-25 Thread Carlos Fernando Scheidecker Antunes
Hello, In one of my notebooks I used the following statement to have Grub boot my Linux on a good screen resolution: kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.7-10 ro root=/dev/hda5 vga=791 And that works great. I would like to learn what are the possible choices for VGA modes and or if there is a better

[Paul Hampson hampson@itel.gr] Please help

2002-01-25 Thread Gordon Matzigkeit
I've forwarded your message to bug-grub, the correct place to find answers for such questions. Good luck, ---BeginMessage--- Dear sir I understand that this is not the correct way of finding help but after trying many sources I cannot find a solution. I have recently istalled Mandrake Linux

Re: Where to find Grub video modes?

2002-01-25 Thread Alex
On Friday 25 January 2002 18:32, Carlos Fernando Scheidecker Antunes wrote: Hello, In one of my notebooks I used the following statement to have Grub boot my Linux on a good screen resolution: kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.7-10 ro root=/dev/hda5 vga=791 And that works great. I would like to

Re:SCSI-Problem

2002-01-25 Thread Christian Stalp
do you have an SCSi controller which can be used to boot from ? (BIOS extension on SCSI board, BIOS support, etc) Yes its a Dawicontrol DC2980U2W with its own BIOS. I can also set the scsi-id with which the system can boot. Do you need the IDE disks to boot. You can simple remove the

Re: RFE for password protection

2002-01-25 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
At Fri, 25 Jan 2002 17:05:17 +0100, Han Holl wrote: I can get this behaviour with grub by protecting all entries but the default with 'lock', but this is rather tedious and can easily lead to errors. Why? How many entries do you have? Thanks, Okuji