Re: Missing feature?

2002-02-16 Thread Jacob Elder
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 04:40:09PM +1000, Ron Addie wrote: > I am sorry if this is an inappropriate destination for this msg. > Please advise a different destination if you are unable to help. > > I would like to be able to set an environmental variable from > within my grub configuration file --

Missing feature?

2002-02-16 Thread Ron Addie
I am sorry if this is an inappropriate destination for this msg. Please advise a different destination if you are unable to help. I would like to be able to set an environmental variable from within my grub configuration file -- so that I can see, from within the boot scripts such as rc.local, wh

Documentation problem

2002-02-16 Thread Andrew McGuinness
Version 0.91 The "Configuration" section of the manual says: To enable the menu, you need a configuration file, `menu.lst' under the boot directory. We'll analyze an example file. I understood this to mean I could create my file as /boot/menu.lst and it would be picked up. I found it only wor

Re: multiboot information structure flags are confusing me

2002-02-16 Thread Timmy Douglas
Alex Thiel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >On Saturday 16 February 2002 07:55, Timmy Douglas wrote: >> it seems that i'm not getting the flag (bit 11) in the mbi >> structure... >> >> i think the flags i'm getting are 0x7e7 (1100111) >> >> any ideas? >> >> i'm testing on a dell inspiron 3800 laptop

Re: multiboot information structure flags are confusing me

2002-02-16 Thread Alex Thiel
On Saturday 16 February 2002 07:55, Timmy Douglas wrote: > it seems that i'm not getting the flag (bit 11) in the mbi > structure... > > i think the flags i'm getting are 0x7e7 (1100111) > > any ideas? > > i'm testing on a dell inspiron 3800 laptop which has vesa support > i think. > Did you

Help

2002-02-16 Thread David Mulligan
I am sorry to be bugging you like this, but it is getting extremely annoying now. We use Linux for our company firewalls and there are a great number of settings and configurations involved. All in all it takes about 2 to 3 weeks to prepare each machine to be a firewall. I used Ghost 7.5 corporate