Re: Possible to install grub rom menu.lst ?

2007-11-02 Thread adrian15
J.Bakshi escribió: Andrian, I am already familiar with those steps. But I am looking for a way which just make a formatted floppy boot-able from menu.lst And I am successful with title create boot able floppy for this PC root (hd0,2) setup (fd0) If you go to another computer where Linux is

Re: Possible to install grub rom menu.lst ?

2007-11-02 Thread J.Bakshi
adrian15 wrote: J.Bakshi escribió: Andrian, I am already familiar with those steps. But I am looking for a way which just make a formatted floppy boot-able from menu.lst And I am successful with title create boot able floppy for this PC root (hd0,2) setup (fd0) If you go to another

Re: how to resize and repositioned the GRUB menu triangle ?

2007-11-02 Thread Adrian Phillips
Joydeep == J Bakshi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Joydeep adrian15 wrote: Get 0.97 and patch it with the splashimage support patch and then you will be able to use the viewport command (if my assumption is correct). Joydeep I have checked http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/ for

Re: Possible to install grub rom menu.lst ?

2007-11-02 Thread adrian15
J.Bakshi escribió: adrian15 wrote: J.Bakshi escribió: Here is the details which I did yesterday. 1 I have make a file system on the formatted floppy with mke2fs /dev/fd0 2 Then I disable the IDE support and boot the machine from floppy. The PC booted from the floppy and displayed GRUB and

Re: Possible to install grub rom menu.lst ?

2007-11-02 Thread J.Bakshi
adrian15 wrote: J.Bakshi escribió: adrian15 wrote: J.Bakshi escribió: Here is the details which I did yesterday. 1 I have make a file system on the formatted floppy with mke2fs /dev/fd0 2 Then I disable the IDE support and boot the machine from floppy. The PC booted from the floppy and

Re: how to resize and repositioned the GRUB menu triangle ?

2007-11-02 Thread J.Bakshi
adrian15 wrote: J.Bakshi escribió: I am talking about the menu displayed by menu.lst How can I resize and repositioned that menu ? Ah, it's not a triangle but a rectangle. You should edit source code for doing this. If you are prepared to edit source code I might give you some clues on

Re: Possible to install grub rom menu.lst ?

2007-11-02 Thread adrian15
J.Bakshi escribió: Here is the details which I did yesterday. 1 I have make a file system on the formatted floppy with mke2fs /dev/fd0 2 Then I disable the IDE support and boot the machine from floppy. The PC booted from the floppy and displayed GRUB and nothing happened. And what did you

Re: how to resize and repositioned the GRUB menu triangle ?

2007-11-02 Thread adrian15
J.Bakshi escribió: I am talking about the menu displayed by menu.lst How can I resize and repositioned that menu ? Ah, it's not a triangle but a rectangle. You should edit source code for doing this. If you are prepared to edit source code I might give you some clues on how to do that.

Re: how to boot from floppy/Cd/USB from menu.lst ?

2007-11-02 Thread J.Bakshi
J.Bakshi wrote: Hello Treutwein, Thanks a lot for your suggestions :-) have a great day. Hi Joydeep, [...] Could any one kindly sugest me the configuration of menu.lst which can boot from boot able /floppy/CD/USB ? First the trivial one: title reboot

how to boot from floppy/Cd/USB from menu.lst ?

2007-11-02 Thread Treutwein Bernhard
Hi Joydeep, [...] Could any one kindly sugest me the configuration of menu.lst which can boot from boot able /floppy/CD/USB ? First the trivial one: title reboot from 1st floppy chainloader (fd0)+1 title reboot from 2nd floppy chainloader (fd1)+1 Rebooting

Re: how to resize and repositioned the GRUB menu triangle ?

2007-11-02 Thread J.Bakshi
adrian15 wrote: J.Bakshi escribió: I am talking about the menu displayed by menu.lst How can I resize and repositioned that menu ? Ah, it's not a triangle but a rectangle. You should edit source code for doing this. If you are prepared to edit source code I might give you some clues on

Re: how to boot from floppy/Cd/USB from menu.lst ?

2007-11-02 Thread J.Bakshi
adrian15 wrote: J.Bakshi escribió: Could any one kindly sugest me the configuration of menu.lst which can boot from boot able /floppy/CD/USB ? thanks title floppy rootnoverify (fd0) chainloader +1 boot Thanks a lot Adrian for this code. -- ~~

Re: how to resize and repositioned the GRUB menu triangle ?

2007-11-02 Thread adrian15
J.Bakshi escribió: I am talking about the menu displayed by menu.lst How can I resize and repositioned that menu ? Ah, it's not a triangle but a rectangle. You should edit source code for doing this. If you are prepared to edit source code I might give you some clues on how to do that.

Re: Possible to install grub rom menu.lst ?

2007-11-02 Thread adrian15
J.Bakshi escribió: Hi all, What may be the configuration of menu.lst which can install grub in the floppy ? Previous to the menu.lst you need to: Format to vfat or ext2 the floppy. Create there a /boot folder. Create there a /boot/grub folder. Copy stage1, stage2 and ( ext2fs_stage1_5 or

Re: how to boot from floppy/Cd/USB from menu.lst ?

2007-11-02 Thread adrian15
J.Bakshi escribió: Could any one kindly sugest me the configuration of menu.lst which can boot from boot able /floppy/CD/USB ? thanks title floppy rootnoverify (fd0) chainloader +1 boot If you want to boot from a USB you need your BIOS to support it. And an USB is treated like another hard

Re: Is it the list for GRUB2?

2007-11-02 Thread adrian15
J.Bakshi escribió: Dear list, IS it the list for discussion with GRUB2 also ? thanks There is a GRUB2 development mailing list. It is not a GRUB2 discussion list because GRUB2 is being developed. If you only send there one or two messages in 3 days instead of the 6 or 7 messages that you have

Re: how to hide the text in GNU GRUB ?

2007-11-02 Thread adrian15
J.Bakshi escribió: Dear list, Whem GRUB shows its menu (menu.lst) it also shoes some text underneath. Like Press enter to boot selected OS, e to edit the line etc... How can I hide those lines There's a hiddenmenu command that you should put after the default or timeout line that makes

Re: Possible to install grub rom menu.lst ?

2007-11-02 Thread J.Bakshi
adrian15 wrote: J.Bakshi escribió: Andrian, Yesterday I checked just root (fd0) setup (fd0) with in grub shell and found that GRUB install stage1 in the floppy which in turn call the stage2 from the hard disk. So this is a way to place stage1 in floppy and this floppy is a computer

Re: Possible to install grub rom menu.lst ?

2007-11-02 Thread adrian15
J.Bakshi escribió: Andrian, Yesterday I checked just root (fd0) setup (fd0) with in grub shell and found that GRUB install stage1 in the floppy which in turn call the stage2 from the hard disk. So this is a way to place stage1 in floppy and this floppy is a computer specific as stage2 is in