Re: Change default on boot

2005-07-07 Thread Alban Crequy
Le Thursday 07 July 2005 à 15:30, Andrew Athan a écrit: It turns out that the RedHat version of grub implements a useful feature: The 2 features fallback and savedefault exist in the official version of GNU Grub, and works great since summer 2004. This question has already been posted on this

Re: full docs in info

2005-06-02 Thread Alban Crequy
in your mail is not the only documentation ;) or that info is reporting bad things to me (since the info file does say, 'see: info grub'). If this is the whole of the info file, then it shouldn't be giving me the 'SEE ALSO' portion, since I'm already seeing it. Alban Crequy

Re: full docs in info

2005-06-02 Thread Alban Crequy
is in a separate package on Debian: grub-doc. How can I fix it so that I get full documentation via info? How did you install Grub? If you have installed it with Debian, try apt-get install grub-doc. Or try the official version from http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-legacy-download.en.html Alban

Re: Can I boot single OS with different parameters?

2005-02-16 Thread Alban Crequy
Le mardi 15 février 2005 à 12:40, Voronkov Konstantin a écrit: Hello, All! We need to load different setups depending on OS selected in GRUB while booting. We need to load the same OS but make some pre-configuration so that OS runs initial script depending on OS selected in GRUB. Is it

Re: Grub-question when performing Kernel-upgrade

2005-02-06 Thread Alban Crequy
Le dimanche 06 février 2005 à 03:58, Ketjes Jette a écrit: - At the first boot we would start the new kernel: if I could change the default value to 1 before the real kernel is booted (no matter if the kernel can boot or not), than my problem is solved. With the last version of Grub, you can

Re: A Simple If Condition support in grub config files Patch

2004-11-05 Thread Alban Crequy
Le dimanche 31 octobre 2004 à 15:52, Muhammed Fawzy a écrit: Dear Sir, Attached is a patch i made to add a simple conditional statement to the grub config file grub.conf the statement looks like the following root (hd0, 0) kernel somekernel if!exists some file kernel

Re: Restart if boot fail

2004-07-27 Thread Alban Crequy
Le mardi 27 juillet 2004 à 14:06, Tech - Seeyes.it a écrit: Hello, Is possible with Grub restart and try with another Grub entry when the Grub default entry fail to start? Yes it is possible with the new savedefault/fallback features. You need the last version from CVS to do that. I tested

Re: new fallback, savedefault

2004-07-21 Thread Alban Crequy
Le mercredi 21 juillet 2004 à 15:23, Yoshinori K. Okuji a écrit: On Tuesday 20 July 2004 01:14, Alban Crequy wrote: I've found why the new fallback-savedefault didn't work. In fact, grub searchs the file /boot/grub/menu.lstdefault instead of /boot/grub/default. Thank you for your

new fallback, savedefault

2004-07-19 Thread Alban Crequy
Hello, I want to get the new fallback/savedefault work. I just tried the cvs version. I have this menu.lst: ---8---8---8---8 default saved timeout 3 fallback 1 2 title Linux root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 devfs=mount acpi=ht resume=/dev/hda5 initrd /boot/initrd.img

Can GRUB boot on CD?

2003-02-14 Thread Alban Crequy
I want to boot on a bootable CD-ROM from the grub menu. I don't know whether it is possible or not. If it is not possible, it may be a good idea to say it in the FAQ in the info pages. My version of grub is grub (GNU GRUB 0.92). It was installed with Mandrake 9. Thanks a lot ! Alban Crequy