Re: Selecting the last partition automatically

2009-03-05 Thread Benoit Donnette
Other idea : use of the (-1) index from the Python language. > On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Felix Zielcke wrote: > >> Am Donnerstag, den 05.03.2009, 10:12 -0500 schrieb Harvey Chapman: >> > Is there a way to always select the last partition on a disk? I'd like >> > to boot the same menu.lst

Re: {LITTLE SUCCESS} Re: microSD problem GRUB loading Stage1.5 Read error

2007-10-30 Thread Benoit Donnette
> > Hello Adrian, > > a little success. > > rather than /dev/sda I have tried with /dev/sda1 that is the fat16 > partition. > > emu -boot c -hda /dev/sda1 > > and qemu opens the screen :-) > but with the error > > ~~~``` > Booting from Hard Disk > > Non -system Disk or Disk

Re: Which device did I boot from?

2007-06-22 Thread Benoit Donnette
OK, what about something like : cat /proc/mounts which will tell you which devices are mounted ? unless you have a /boot artition that you won't mount (possible), but in this case the kernel would lie in /kernels/bzImage. However you need to know that you actually booted from (hd0,0). Benoit.

Re: sir , I hve a problem,

2007-03-12 Thread Benoit Donnette
As Dan Farrell suggested, you must be in the grub prompt after a (possibly unwanted) reboot, with a broken grub.conf ; the remedy is to correct the grub.conf file, which usually lies in the /boot/grub directory. To get out of here, you will now need a rescue disk, unless you happen to know the part

Re: sir , I hve a problem,

2007-03-12 Thread Benoit Donnette
You obviously entered the command 'grub'. Typing Ctrl-C escapes with no damage. FYI, the grub command is there to setup the bootloader. BenoƮt. On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 15:18 +0530, P.P.Karthi keyan wrote: > Hallo sir, > > Iam a student, doing M.Sc., Bioinformatics in a recognised university. > I

request for subscription

2007-01-02 Thread Benoit Donnette
All is in the title. I wish to subscribe so as to volunteer for GRUB legacy maintainance. Sorry if it is not the right place for this, I basically followed the instructions given on the FSF France Web site. ___ Bug-grub mailing list Bug-grub@gnu.org