Re: Assortment of Issues with EFI on Mac

2011-12-31 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 31.12.2011 09:36, Jake Thomas wrote: Thank you Vladmir for the response : D ! I'm new to the Grub mailing lists, and these bugs have been on my mind for some while. My experiences differ with a couple things you said. You said that you cannot depend on drive order. One of the few things

FW: grub 2 problems...please help

2011-12-31 Thread Landon M. Kelsey, III
_ From: landon kelsey [mailto:landonmkel...@hotmail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2011 7:48 PM To: bug-grub@gnu.org; fredsils...@yahoo.com; landon kelsey Subject: grub 2 problems...please help (1) installed MS XP Prof works great...boots right up with no help...SCSI 0

sorry, my mistake...corrected...Please help

2011-12-31 Thread Landon M. Kelsey, III
(1) installed MS XP Prof works great...boots right up with no help...SCSI 0 (2) installed Fedora 16 but cannot reach it took hours ...SCSI 1 attached is error_grub.txt with all attempts and results. I've learned NEVER to install ANYTHING (XP included) with flash or ext HDs

Re: Assortment of Issues with EFI on Mac

2011-12-31 Thread Jake Thomas
Thank you Vladimir for the theory about Grub loading the _correct_ Linux kernel file and the _correct_ initrd file, but Linux then going on to use the wrong partition. I can rest a lot more easy with that theory; mine was kind-of paranormal. What would be a situation where I boot Grub off my

what do I do now??? did preupgrade before seeing this message

2011-12-31 Thread Landon M. Kelsey, III
Upgrade from Fedora 14 or 15 to Fedora 16 with preupgrade leaves bootloader in previous configuration link http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F16_bugs#preupgrade-bootloader-fail to this item - Bugzilla: #737731 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=737731 If you used

Re: Assortment of Issues with EFI on Mac

2011-12-31 Thread Jake Thomas
Thank you Vladmir for the response : D ! I'm new to the Grub mailing lists, and these bugs have been on my mind for some while. My experiences differ with a couple things you said. You said that you cannot depend on drive order. One of the few things that has worked 100% of the time with my

Re: Assortment of Issues with EFI on Mac

2011-12-31 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 31.12.2011 20:46, Jake Thomas wrote: Thank you Vladimir for the theory about Grub loading the _correct_ Linux kernel file and the _correct_ initrd file, but Linux then going on to use the wrong partition. I can rest a lot more easy with that theory; mine was kind-of paranormal. What would

Re: Assortment of Issues with EFI on Mac

2011-12-31 Thread Jake Thomas
So grub-mkstandalone and grub-install can make the EFI image? Thanks for telling me that the firmware is what determines the drive mapping. I was beginning to suspect that, but I wasn't sure. Jake ___ Bug-grub mailing list Bug-grub@gnu.org