At Thu, 14 Feb 2002 08:46:37 +0100,
Christoph Plattner wrote:
What is VBE in GRUB ?
VBE stands for VESA BIOS EXTENSION which provides a simple interface
for graphics, video, and audio devices. When we are talking about VBE
in GRUB, we mean only the graphics part of the specification. Because
At Thu, 14 Feb 2002 12:11:14 +0100,
Christoph Plattner wrote:
So VBE can be used as library functionality for kernel booted
from GRUB (via multiboot spec) to use VESA calles without
switching to real mode, or is it only for the booting itself.
The former, of course. The Multiboot
On Thursday 14 February 2002 03:01, Timmy Douglas wrote:
and one thing about your docs:
+---+
0 | vbe_control_info |
4 | vbe_mode_info |
8 | vbe_mode |
10 | vbe_interface_seg |
12 |
Why you want to kill your GRUB ?
Exactly here is the big advantage of GRUB, you can boot all systems ...
(BTW: You always can boot from a DOS floppy for such a killing
action).
grub rootnoverify (hd0,0)
grub makeactive
grub chainloader +1
grub boot
hd0,0 means, that it is the first disk
Hello,
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 01:04:55PM +0100, Han Holl wrote:
I'm using Jeremy Katz's grub-0.91-0.20020102 rpm, and your patch did not
apply to that. If I understand you correctly, it's just a matter of waiting a
couple of weeks, and I cab run your script with the mainstream grub ?
What about the partition sizes. Is the stage2 file on the first 1024
cylinders ?
GRUB should not have this limit, but in some cases or with a buggy BIOS
everything is possible.
Is the right stage 1.5 used for the selected file system ?
Bye
Christoph
Demian Dixon wrote:
Thanks for that
On Fri, 01 Feb 2002 23:32:44 +0900, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
At Fri, 1 Feb 2002 13:46:03 +0100, Rui Zhu wrote:
For the second question, I think two things should be done
(potentially). One is to free the memory used by a PXE ROM. Because
GRUB doesn't use PXE even in the case of being
