loading raw images

2004-03-26 Thread lode leroy
for booting a disk raw disk image, you can use memdisk from syslinux: This works if the disk image contains an OS that only uses BIOS to access the disk (ie MSDOS works, I used a Win98 bootdisk and that works too) http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grub/2003-01/msg00112.html -- lode

Re: grub.conf problem

2004-03-26 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Friday 26 March 2004 07:44, Surya Prabhakar N wrote: When this file contains entries more than 200 , the file is not getting loaded . I try to load it manually using configfile option , but it gets garbled . How do I change the source , or what is the workaround to increase the number of

Re: loading raw images

2004-03-26 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Friday 26 March 2004 09:55, lode leroy wrote: for booting a disk raw disk image, you can use memdisk from syslinux: Why syslinux? I use memdisk with GRUB quite easily. Okuji ___ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL

Re: Name of config file looks ambiguous to GRUB newbies

2004-03-26 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Thursday 25 March 2004 20:14, David Horton wrote: A lowercase 'L' looks a lot like a number '1' so it is difficult to tell if the config file name should be 'menu dot list' or 'menu dot first'. Use a better font. If you cannot distinguish l from 1, you should have many other problems as

Re: Name of config file looks ambiguous to GRUB newbies

2004-03-26 Thread Leendert Meyer
On Thursday 25 March 2004 14:47, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 01:46:48PM +0100, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 09:11:07PM +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: I'm a zealot. To me the correct one would be ./etc/grub.conf And everyone with a Unix-brain will

Re: Name of config file looks ambiguous to GRUB newbies

2004-03-26 Thread David Horton
Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: On Thursday 25 March 2004 20:14, David Horton wrote: A lowercase 'L' looks a lot like a number '1' so it is difficult to tell if the config file name should be 'menu dot list' or 'menu dot first'. Use a better font. If you cannot distinguish l from 1, you should have