Re: Removing grub *WITHOUT* using other OS'es. Was: ...Removing Grub (Again)

2002-04-06 Thread Pixel
RD Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone know how to safely rewrite MBRs *and* PBRs on linux drives and partitions using *LINUX* tools? Apart from confusing and ambiguous documentation, the problem of removing grub seems to be the number #1 complaint from grub users. extipl [1]

Re: Double sync, one more time

2002-04-06 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
I have revised my patch and checked it in to the CVS. I tested it on ext3fs and it worked fine. I didn't test it on XFS, but it should work, because the logic doesn't depend on any filesystem type. Next, I'm going to tackle the backup/uninstall issue... Okuji

grub-0.91 vs. -0.5.96.1

2002-04-06 Thread oz
FYI: Since grub-0.5.96.1 came out, it boots successfully my kernel from a RAID5-SCSI-Array with reiserfs 3.x.0j Now I setup a new server with identical hardware but reiser 3.x.1a-2 and wanted to give the actual grub-0.91 a try. It compiled also well and I can start grub on a floppy. The

bootable image support

2002-04-06 Thread Joshua Jensen
Are there any plans to support booting from floppy images, or from cdrom ISO image files? If I have an ISO image of a bootable CD, it would be nice to boot from it... or with an image file made from a floppy. Maybe something like this: title Boot from image file rootnoverify --imagefile

Re: Double sync, one more time

2002-04-06 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hi! I have revised my patch and checked it in to the CVS. I tested it on ext3fs and it worked fine. I didn't test it on XFS, but it should work, because the logic doesn't depend on any filesystem type. Thank you! Sorry that I could not reply earlier. I tested it on reiserfs and it worked