Compaq Presario 1610 no boot

2002-10-08 Thread TJ Rothwell
I've ran 'grub-install /dev/hda' as well as grub with commands 'root (hd0,0)' 'setup (hd0)' 'quit' Then when I rebooted the machine, I'd get the error: GRUB Read Error. LILO works fine. In the BIOS it has an option Large Disk Access Mode with options DOS or Other, I've tried both with the same

Re: foo'ed

2002-10-08 Thread Chris Synan
I was having a similar problem... My machine would boot and say: GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB etc... Then i tried to replace the disk with another known good linux boot disk. The new disk caused the computer to say only: GRUB and nothing else. I spent a lot of time digging up info on this

Re: Kernel Parameter Passing

2002-10-08 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
IIRC, we have discussed the same issue in this list several times. The reasons why such a feature has never been implemented in the official source tree are: * It would break backward compatibility, because GRUB must pass the arguments to an OS image as they are. Modifying them (e.g.

Re: [PATCH] Allow appending kernel options directly from the main menu

2002-10-08 Thread Neal H. Walfield
The following patch lets users to directly edit the kernel command line by pressing 'a' at the grub menu. This makes it significantly easier for users to do things such as boot in single user mode or pass kernel options for debugging. Honestly, I'm not very fascinated with this kind

Does anyone know why there is no grub directory in ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu

2002-10-08 Thread Charles Churchill II
Does anyone know why there is no grub directory in ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu I'm trying to download a grub boot image. This may not be the best place to post this, but I'd appreciate any help I can get. ___ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Does anyone know why there is no grub directory in ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu

2002-10-08 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
At Tue, 8 Oct 2002 20:54:17 -0400, Charles Churchill II wrote: Does anyone know why there is no grub directory in ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu I'm trying to download a grub boot image. I'm sorry, but I've put the files back right now. Thanks, Okuji ___

Re: [PATCH] Allow appending kernel options directly from the main menu

2002-10-08 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
At 08 Oct 2002 10:10:17 -0400, Neal H. Walfield wrote: How about `a' followed by a number (or vica versa--I think that the latter would be better) which would indicate what line to append to? I don't think that is so convenient, because you cannot see what any menu entry has on the top-level

MIC driver

2002-10-08 Thread Dave Shpritz
Hey all, I was wondering now hard it would be to port a driver from etherboot to grub, namely the prism 2 chipset for the Intersil 802.11b cards. I'm trying to netboot NetBSD over one and it seems like this might be my solution. I noticed that many of the files are similar between the two