[bug #32886] documentation should refer to terminal_input and terminal_output, not terminal

2011-03-22 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
URL: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?32886 Summary: documentation should refer to terminal_input and terminal_output, not terminal Project: GNU GRUB Submitted by: dkg Submitted on: Tue 22 Mar 2011 07:28:12 PM EDT Category:

[bug #32886] documentation should refer to terminal_input and terminal_output, not terminal

2011-03-22 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
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[bug #27336] regression: no longer able to specify both vga and serial console

2010-04-03 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Follow-up Comment #7, bug #27336 (project grub): Thanks for the fixes, Vladimir and Robert. Vladimir, if there had been more feedback on this bug report about the state of this work (that the only thing missing was configuration templating) maybe Jeff wouldn't have thought his patches were the

merging ieee1275's grub-mkrescue into the common grub-mkrescue

2010-02-17 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
attached is a patch offered to merge the ieee1275 implementation of grub-mkrescue into the common grub-mkrescue (currently shared only by grub-coreboot and grub-pc). It depends on grub-mkisofs supporting HFS extensions, though. Once grub-mkisofs can support these features, this patch would

[bug #26954] grub-install on usb drive: Your embedding area is unusually small. core.img

2009-11-30 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Follow-up Comment #4, bug #26954 (project grub): I'm also seeing this problem right now on a 1GB USB stick with lots of space available. I'm using 1.97~beta3-1 on a debian squeeze system: 0 pip:~# grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sdc grub-setup: warn: Your embedding area is unusually

[bug #26954] grub-install on usb drive: Your embedding area is unusually small. core.img

2009-11-30 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Follow-up Comment #5, bug #26954 (project grub): in #27406, petrius wrote: because the usb drive I was using was 32 sectors/track. I didn't even know that could be an issue. It looks like the USB stick i'm using has the same issue, according to fdisk -l: 0 pip:~# fdisk -l /dev/sdc Disk

[bug #26954] grub-install on usb drive: Your embedding area is unusually small. core.img

2009-11-30 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Follow-up Comment #7, bug #26954 (project grub): The workaround mentality comes from the fact that there are no clear suggestions for how to resolve the problem. The error message is fairly opaque, even though i think i have a decent grasp of what's going on. It sounds to me like you're saying

[bug #27094] Add GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD option (patch included)

2009-10-15 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Follow-up Comment #2, bug #27094 (project grub): I don't have access to an xnu system i can boot with grub, so i'm not sure how to correctly implement such a transition. I can verify that solutions similar to those proposed in http://bugs.debian.org/538099 work for the Linux kernel, though.

[bug #27336] regression: no longer able to specify both vga and serial console

2009-10-05 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Follow-up Comment #2, bug #27336 (project grub): just wanted to point out a workaround for the lack of boot-time console choice support for grub 1.9x: http://cmrg.fifthhorseman.net/browser/trunk/debirf/src/grub2-terminal-chooser Basically, it takes advantage of grub's new scripting support to