Re: terminal --silent option

2002-04-16 Thread Danilo Godec
On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Christoph Plattner wrote: I don't think it is a good idea, simple supressing is the output. The user should have a feeling, if he can take the console or not, and also the start and stop of the time window he can take the console. Actually, I think it could be quite

Re: Setting variables in GRUB

2002-04-16 Thread Danilo Godec
On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Scott Kruger wrote: I have a simple question, but I haven't found anyone that can answer it. A lot of utilities for maintaining network profiles use lilo to state where one as at. For example, quickswitch has as it's instructions: LILO: linux SWITCHTO=work Is there an

Re: Serial console

2002-04-11 Thread Danilo Godec
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Christoph Plattner wrote: I know what you are speaking about But there is a solution. You have to set `--timeout=0' (!) in the `terminal' line, and the system is usabe for serial line only. I use grub with serial line regulary and it has no problem with selecting

Re: Grub hanging

2002-03-28 Thread Danilo Godec
On 28 Mar 2002, barjunk wrote: Tried to load grub on a HD that had LILO on it. Now when I try to boot the machine it displays the word GRUB, then just hangs there. Luckily I took the advice and made a boot disk before I tried to load GRUB! I'm just dealing with this issue right now. This

Re: need CD-Rom Burner info

2002-03-15 Thread Danilo Godec
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Jon L. Miller wrote: I currently have a Samsung CD-ROM(hdc) burner and a Pioneer DVD/CD-ROM (hda) drive. I have conpiled ide-scsi in my 2.4 kernel. What i need to know is do I have to put a line in grub.conf that states hda=ide-scsi along with the following, if so

Re: (no subject)

2002-03-13 Thread Danilo Godec
On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, jawad abid wrote: I had grub installed in my pc when I got LINUX mandrake 7. Later on I fdisk and reformated my pc. Now I can not get my machine to boot in DOS or any other OS, GRUB is always starting first and because it does not find its files it stays in command line

Re: Grub and software RAID

2002-03-11 Thread Danilo Godec
On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Gerard W. Patterson wrote: I run a very similar configuration. What I do is (using a grub floppy) remove the first disk and install the grub boot-loader on the second disk with the same configuration as the first one (since the second disk is now the first and only

Re: Grub ~ have Windows 3.1 loaded on Linux ext2 Partition HDA7

2002-03-10 Thread Danilo Godec
On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, tabanna wrote: Dear Ask, Thank you so much for replying :) I can use grub to boot a DOS boot disk, and then cd to drive C;\ . . . then , when I enter WIN my Windows 3.1 starts up just fine, running completely on ext2 file system (:-O This is insane. DOS and

Re: Serial: Press any key to continue ...[Fwd: Serial output sentto console]

2002-01-17 Thread Danilo Godec
On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: It is necessary to choose which terminal you want to use at run time. Agreed! One suggestion though: The order of kernel parameters 'console' determines, which console type will be used for input. Maybe grub could reflect the users choice of

Re: [Bug-grub] Problems with grub 0.90 and Promise FastTrak 100 TX2

2001-11-30 Thread Danilo Godec
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Jason Thomas wrote: boot form hda = hda is (hd0), hde is (hd1), hdg is (hd2) invoke grub root (hd1,0) install /grub/stage1 (hd1) /grub/stage2 reboot, remove hda form bios you need to create a grub boot disk, cat stage1 stage2 /dev/fd0 Is it somehow possible

Boot managers and LVM

2001-09-21 Thread Danilo Godec
Hi! I'm planning to use LVM with MD devices and I wonder if GRUB is somehow able to boot using LVM on / or will I have to go back to Lilo? Thanks, D. ___ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub

Serial line?

2001-07-19 Thread Danilo Godec
Is it possible to change the behaviour of Grub when using serial terminal? Right now, Grub stops and waits for a keypress. I think, it should wait for a while and then continue with a default (for example, if I specifiy 'terminal serial console', the default should be the first -or the last-).

Re: Serial line?

2001-07-19 Thread Danilo Godec
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Danilo Godec wrote: Is it possible to change the behaviour of Grub when using serial terminal? Right now, Grub stops and waits for a keypress. I think, it should wait for a while and then continue with a default (for example, if I specifiy 'terminal serial console

Linux RAID support - kindof

2001-01-19 Thread Danilo Godec
Here is a patch that adds a kind of Sofrware-RAID support for Linux. Linux software RAID uses partition type 0xfd to mark a partition as a part of RAID array. Grub (by default) decides this partition type is unknown and won't mount it as ext2 (in my case, it is...). This patch changes this so