Re: config files when network booting

2002-05-03 Thread James Carter
On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 22:09, Pavel Roskin wrote: Would not it be better to add this feature to the tftp server? It's easier to improve one server than every client. Besides, nobody wants bloat in the bootloader useful just for a few users. fair enough - although i wouldn't really call an

SOLUTION to dual-boot problem

2002-05-03 Thread Warren Pollans
Hi Folks, Upgrading from 0.90 to 0.92 made my problem related to dual-booting win2k and Redhat7.2 go away. My problem was that grub wouldn't load - hanging with GRUB Loading stage ... After installing the new grub the simple setup worked: grub root (hd0,5) grub setup (hd0) grub quit

Re: Gate A20

2002-05-03 Thread erich
Yoshinori K. Okuji [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: About Gate A20. GRUB supports only the traditional approach (i.e. using the keyboard controller) to enable/disable Gate A20 at the moment. This is not enough. ...[examples deleted]... Therefore, syslinux uses BIOS as the first way, the

Re: USB keyboard problem elucidated?

2002-05-03 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
At Thu, 2 May 2002 21:01:10 -0600, Derrik Pates wrote: On a newly-acquired ARM CY13 laptop (Pentium 4, Phoenix BIOS, Intel i845 chipset), I've noticed the oft-discussed problem with USB keyboards - that they don't actually work when GRUB itself gets loaded. Be more specific, please. don't

Re: SOLUTION to dual-boot problem

2002-05-03 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
At Fri, 3 May 2002 14:28:18 +, Warren Pollans wrote: Upgrading from 0.90 to 0.92 made my problem related to dual-booting win2k and Redhat7.2 go away. My problem was that grub wouldn't load - hanging with GRUB Loading stage ... Don't omit the message. You should see either GRUB Loading

Re: El Torito, odd floppies 0.92 working patches...

2002-05-03 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
(I thought I should send this mail to Thierry privately, but I chose to post it to bug-grub as well, because it might be useful to notify other people of my opinion. In the following paragraphs, I mean Thierry by you.) First of all, I'd like to say that I appreciate your work and I'm very

grub and RedHat rescue mode

2002-05-03 Thread Robert Story
I just spent some time haggling with grub while in red hat rescue mode. I had installed Windows on a new partion, which of course broke grub. So I booted into rescue mode, and tried to run grub-install to get things back in order. Unfortunately, I kept getting an error that /dev/root did not