software interrupts from a multiboot-compliant kernel

2002-02-10 Thread Timmy Douglas
I made a multiboot compliant kernel using the demo files that came with grub: boot.S, multiboot.h, and kernel.c. I wanted to do some vesa/vga stuff and I figured out that software interrupts (int 10h) are probably the best way to do that. However, I did not expect that doing this would be so

proposition for more

2002-02-10 Thread Jani Averbach
Hi! I have made a little modification to grub, so that it's cat has some of more's capabilities (space = next screen, return = next line, esc = ending, line wrapping). What do you think, does grub need more? =) And if it does, cat with more or cat and more? Q1: How should I print to place

Re: FAQ bug

2002-02-10 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
At Sat, 9 Feb 2002 08:22:36 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Finding such stuff is a pain - why is there never a good man page with a GNU program? http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_33.html#SEC33 Maybe the authors of grub would like the world to be different, perhaps that would have been more

Re: Resolving symllinks in grub-install

2002-02-10 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
Your patch is nice. Check it in to the CVS! Thanks, Okuji ___ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub

Re: proposition for more

2002-02-10 Thread Christoph Plattner
Hello ! The initial idea was to use ENTER only to have equal handling in dumb terminals and in non-dumb terminals. A abort ESC is quite a good idea, but may also be difficult on dumb terminals (or cannonical one's). We should discuss: - what options do we really need, GRUB is not an OS to

Re: FAQ bug

2002-02-10 Thread Christoph Plattner
One question concerning DOCU: I am NOT the expert on that question ! But can the TeX system not also produce MAN pages as other formats like info, ps, html ? So it should be easy then, to have a MAN page additional for at least prefix/sbin/grub. But again, I am NOT an expert on that stuff.