Does grub2 log messages to a log file?

2009-12-09 Thread Dr. Dov Bulka
There are dprintf statements in the code that look like they log messages somewhere. How can I retrieve those messages? Do they go to a file? On a related note, is there a way for another entity (say another Virtual Machine is ESX environment), to monitor the progress of the bootloader? (If

Re: Building GRUB2: autogen.sh error msg (AC_PROG_MKDIR_P)

2009-11-04 Thread Dr. Dov Bulka
to their final places on the host.  Am I looking at the wrong files? TIA, Dov --- On Wed, 11/4/09, Felix Zielcke fziel...@z-51.de wrote: From: Felix Zielcke fziel...@z-51.de Subject: Re: Building GRUB2: autogen.sh error msg (AC_PROG_MKDIR_P) To: Dr. Dov Bulka dbu...@doverealestate.biz Cc: bug

Re: Building GRUB2: error while generating info doc

2009-11-04 Thread Dr. Dov Bulka
: Felix Zielcke fziel...@z-51.de Subject: Re: Building GRUB2: autogen.sh error msg (AC_PROG_MKDIR_P) To: Dr. Dov Bulka dbu...@doverealestate.biz Cc: bug-grub@gnu.org Date: Wednesday, November 4, 2009, 11:54 AM Am Mittwoch, den 04.11.2009, 08:42 -0800 schrieb Dr. Dov Bulka: [r...@mason grub-1.97]# grub

Re: Building GRUB2: error while generating info doc

2009-11-04 Thread Dr. Dov Bulka
://www.DoveRealEstate.biz --- On Wed, 11/4/09, Felix Zielcke fziel...@z-51.de wrote: From: Felix Zielcke fziel...@z-51.de Subject: Re: Building GRUB2: error while generating info doc To: Dr. Dov Bulka dbu...@doverealestate.biz Cc: bug-grub@gnu.org Date: Wednesday, November 4, 2009, 12:33 PM Am Mittwoch, den

Building GRUB2: autogen.sh error msg (AC_PROG_MKDIR_P)

2009-11-03 Thread Dr. Dov Bulka
I downloaded GRUB2 from the gnu ftp site. cd to the source directory and ran ./autogen.sh   I got the error message below: configure.ac:147 error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_MKDIR_P If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow See the Autoconf

Can Grub 0.97 load an x86_64 OS image?

2009-10-08 Thread Dr. Dov Bulka
I downloaded the sources and built a grub executable. The code has many references to ELF32 structures and, not surprisingly, I'm unable to load an OS image whose format is x86_64. The machine is running Linux 2.6.18-8.el5. Grub version is 0.97 uname -a tells me that this is an x86_64