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to me that GRUB can read FAT16 but not FAT32, which
seems to go against what's stated in the GRUB manual.
Has anyone else had any luck getting GRUB to read FAT32?
Yes, I don't have any problems accessing my FAT32 partition.
Jochen
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or
normal file. Even the stage1 file cannot be read, and grub cannot be
installed. So I can't test if that bug is or is not present in recent
versions.
I'm currently discussing with Jochen Hoenicke, who is in way to repair
that.
It seems that he found the problem, as he sent me a path that fix
On Friday 13 June 2003 15:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello all,
I am having having problems getting grub to read files on reiserfs. (I am
using grub version 0.91 and debian stable) Sometimes, for no obvoius
reason, it would print error 15 at boot time, indicating that the
kernel file
.
How big is a compressed image of /dev/hda2? If it is too big, can you
build an image of the first half megabyte, compress it and send it to
me (or better upload it somewhere).
Jochen
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algorithm, block bitmap
parsing and so on. If you have done this already, forget this comment :)
Jochen
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the reiserfs partition correctly? If
yes, type cat (hd0,0)/ and then press tab and check whether it
can display the directories. Try also to cat small files or follow
symlinks. Is there a symlink in /boot/grub/stage1?
Jochen
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On Thursday, 18. April 2002 16:46, Hans Quennet wrote:
[...]
Once I ran
/sbin/grub-install /dev/hda1
my happy little world changed somewhat.
As I understand /dev/hda1 was your Win98 partition. This
command installed grub in the boot sector of this partition
overwriting the previous one.
://www.gnu.org/manual/grub/html_chapter/grub_3.html
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filesystem structure
Which filesystem are you using? ext2, ext3, reiser, xfs, jfs?
Also the version number of the mk??fs tool would be helpful.
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On Friday, 18. January 2002 15:33, you wrote:
# dd if=stage1/stage1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1
# dd if=stage2/pxegrub of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 seek=1
that's what the manual told me (at least i think so)
but grub won't run, stuck with GRUB and that's it
if i take stage2 instead of pxegrub as the
On Thursday, 10. January 2002 08:49, Simon Kitching wrote:
1. where does the stage1.5 get written to on a hard-drive?
(*) if using FFS or ReiserFS, and there is sufficient space in
the boot area
reserved by these filesystems, is that space used? Is it the
first choice
On Wednesday, 19. December 2001 03:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hello,
recently i bought the suse 7.3 and now i'd like to use it with your
grub-bootloader. but: either i get error 17 (cannot mount selected
partition) or the error 15 (file not found). these are indications,
that there are
On Thursday, 6. December 2001 23:43, John Whitfield wrote:
I am also using DHCP rather than BOOTP. There is an example in the
manual of how to pass the menu using T150 to BOOTP. How is this
information passed using DHCP. I must be overlooking something.
Here is my dhcpd.conf entry:
On Nov 15, Robert E. Harvey wrote:
Would someone kindly point me toward the GRUB manual?
http://www.gnu.org/manual/grub/
Okuji, do you think this link should be added to the project page
and/or the FAQ?
Jochen
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On Nov 9, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In putting in some extra consistency checks for the GRUB shell
installer (and for Linux adding BMAP functionality for the stage2),
I seem to have come across an issue...
The setup builtin function will try to install a stage 1.5, but
then overwrite it
On Nov 8, Domas Savickas wrote:
How can I use grub to boot linux off fat32 partition?
The simplest way is to copy all grub files to the fat32 partition to
the directory c:\boot\grub or c:\grub, and then install grub the
normal way into the MBR, using the fat32 partition as root.
distribution
On Nov 7, Bram Stolk wrote:
Now, surely, this kind of GRUB output should really be impossible:
GRUB version 0.90 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)
[ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB
lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB
On Oct 31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Linux normal sync behavior looks fine for real devices. (for
non-journaled FSes)
I just want to point out, that for a journaled filesystem, once the
journal blocks are committed from a logical point the filesystem is
completely synced. There is no need for
On Nov 1, Ben wrote:
Hi
Is there any way that i can reset my password on this grub??
You can just remove the password lines from /boot/grub/menu.lst
Of course, you need to find a way to boot your operating system, to
edit that file. If you have completely password protected booting
from
On Nov 1, dman wrote:
On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 11:47:54AM +0100, Jochen Hoenicke wrote:
...
| If you have completely password protected booting from your
| harddisk,
...
What do you mean by this? Can I set a separate password for each
entry in the menu?
Yes, with grub-0.90 you can put
On Oct 24, Simon J. Rees wrote:
I have W2K and Redhat 7.1 on a new system. Redhat put lilo in the MBR but I
would like to use grub to make a dual boot setup. I have compiled grub-0.90
and used grub-install to make a grub boot floppy. Using the floppy I can get
the grub console and I can boot
Hello,
On Oct 25, Charles Marcus wrote:
Maybe this is a stupid question, but can I use GRUB on a system that uses
XFS for all partitions, including the boot?
Not the official version of grub, but there exists an inofficial
patch at http://tzukanov.narod.ru/grub-jfs_xfs/
Jochen
On Oct 20, Jason Thomas wrote:
I'm using reiserfs with grub on a debian system with 2.4.12-ac3, it
works for me.
if formatting with a different tool fixed yoru problem then perhaps
there are some differences in the tools causing this.
The latest mkreiserfs tools (3.x.0k-pre) have finally
On Oct 2, Jim Caley wrote:
I had grub working with an ext2 partition, but now that I've converted
this partition to reiserfs I can't seem to get grub to recognize it.
I am able to run Linux off the reiserfs partition using a boot floppy.
I'm working through the Installing GRUB natively
On Sep 5, James Carter wrote:
i'm not sure if this is possible, but i'd like to boot nbi images from
grub. in particular, i need to boot dos from an image over the network.
is this possible?
No it's not possible. Adding nbi support to grub is possible but not
trivial.
The problem is that
On Aug 27, Ian Monroe wrote:
I have a simular problem as discussed here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-grub@gnu.org/msg03539.html
That message appears to be the last in the thread, though it is hard to
tell.
I was stupid and typed 'grub-install /dev/hda1' instead of 'grub-install
The log looks fine: Grub detects the symlink, follows it to the real
file and reads in the real file. It detects it correctly:
[Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1400, size=0x12d66c]
- Forwarded message from Stephane Jourdois [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdh1
No error
Hello,
I thought I had fixed symlinks for new reiserfs. I haven't tested
symlinks to files, though, or maybe the format has changed again.
- Forwarded message from Stephane Jourdois [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
Issuing the following commands at the grub prompt at boot doesn't work:
root
+++ ChangeLog 2001/07/26 13:23:29
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+2001-07-26 Jochen Hoenicke [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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+ * stage2/Makefile.am (libgrub_a_CFLAGS): Enable USE_MD5_PASSWORDS
+ for libgrub. Previously that was implicitly done by configure.in
+ until the patch from 2001-07-04, which
On Jul 6, Laurent Michel wrote:
Hi!
[...]
Error 29: Disk write error
[...]
Note that the file is opened O_RDONLY and we are trying to write! So
this code has me completely confused.
BTW, I am using gdb 5.0, grub (0.5.96)
That is a bug in grub-0.5.96 and fixed in 0.5.96.1. The
On Jul 6, Laurent Michel wrote:
Am I right assuming that I can simply replace O_RDONLY by O_RDWR and
it will work as expected ?
Yes, though there were a few more bugs fixed.
Otherwise, where can I find the newest version ?
The official location is ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/
Don't fear
On Jul 5, Regnat Nikolaus wrote:
Hello, I'm using Debian Woody, Kernel 2.4.5, ReiserFS (for the root fs) and
Grub 0.5.96.1 ( I even tired the latest Debian Package -
0.5.96.1.cvs20010530-6).
I'm getting the following message while booting the system:
--
There are differences
On Jun 28, Eric Peterson wrote:
I'm trying to load GRUB onto a flash boot disk (being treated by the
BIOS as a floppy drive). Although I can successfully burn a Linux
bzImage to the flash (with a minor modification to give it a DOS-like
BPB) and boot it, doing similar things with GRUB has
On Jun 25, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
I'm using grub distributed in debian woody, the package version is
0.5.96.1.cvs20010530-6, with binutils 2.11.90.0.7, a linux kernel 2.4.5,
a SCSI disk beyond an adaptec AHA7xxx controller and reiserfs filesystem
on it.
grub-install works well but when I
On Jun 26, Lagerweij B wrote:
Hi all,
Can grub (itself) be chainloaded? Why? you ask...
I've written a CD-Rom multiboot loader (http://www.nu2.nu/diskemu) and I see
people using it for loading grub in floppy emulation mode.
I was thinking, maybe grub can be loaded in no-emulation
On Jun 6, Vidya Kulkarni wrote:
Thanks for the reply. I tried the commands given by you.
After execution of the command
root ( hd0,0) the message is following:
Filesystem type is fat, partition type 0xc
Seems that (hd0,0) is your Windows/DOS partition. You can boot
Windows with
On May 31, Mike Tsao wrote:
I built an ELF executable with a load address of 0xC000.
GRUB had some trouble with it, complaining that Loading below 1MB is not
supported. The commands I used to load it were root (hd0,0); makeactive;
kernel mydir/myfile (Bochs for Win32, FAT file system).
On May 28, Michal Maru¹ka wrote:
* (about a month ago) I spent days installing grub on a reiserFS
3.6.25 disks. Without success. Since then I have booted my
computers from a (common and last) floppy.
* My computers with reiserFS 3.5.x do work well with Grub.
* Since then i've
On May 22, Dotlacil Jaroslav wrote:
I would like to use grub for booting Linux, WindowsNT and DOS6.22. I
have partitions for WindowsNT and Linux. I would like to boot DOS from
image file (it was created by rawrite from diskette)and with commands
chainloader, boot. It doesn't work. I don't
Hello,
you both asked for the same feature:
Is there a 'lilo -R label' funcionality in grub?
This option sets the default command for the boot
loader the next time it executes. The boot loader
will then erase this line: this is a once-only com
On Apr 29, Mila Kuchta wrote:
Hi,
I have problem with creating Makefiles.
If I don't execute automake and autoconf everythings go right, but I
applied some patches and want it to take effect.
You need a recent (unstable) version of automake, see grub/INSTALL.
You can use:
On Apr 18, Canavessi Carlos Martin wrote:
Hello!
I am an argentine user of grub since the first versions, and last night I
was installing Debian 2.2 for the 5th time, and when I installed grub, I
wrote this command:
grub-install /dev/hda1 (where you can notice the hda1 instead of hda)
*
On Apr 10, Chris Mason wrote:
On Tuesday, April 10, 2001 02:34:55 PM +0200 Piotr Krukowiecki
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
[This message is also CC'ed to reiserfs-list (if posting without
subscription is allowed), since I don't know is it GRUB or Reiserfs bug]
I have
On Apr 14, Michael wrote:
GRUB will not let me use the arrow keys to select from the boot menu
until I first press a key on a PS2 attached keyboard.
My version is 0.5.95 installed with Mandrake Linux 7.2
on a HP Pavillion 9870.
Grub relies on the BIOS to access the keyboard and doesn't
On Apr 15, Jay Wardle wrote:
Hello,
1. I had trouble compiling GRUB on both of my Debian
systems. Initially, neither had libncurses5-dev installed,
but both did have libncurses5 installed (required as
part of base system).
configure had trouble realizing libncurses was there,
perhaps
On Apr 7, Dave Cinege wrote:
I just converted a linux boot partition (100MB) to Raid 1. In doing
mkreaiserfs on the new md device, and reinstalled grub. Problem:
Grub no longer follows the vmlinuz symlink I have, but will find
the kernel file itself. My thinking is the problem is the old FS
On Mar 31, Jeff Sheinberg wrote:
Jochen Hoenicke writes:
This reminds me of my booting from ZIP disk problem. I patched grub
to read a fixed geometry from the boot sector, just as DOS does it.
...
Please post the patch directly to this list. The savannah web
interface
On Mar 31, Thomas Lyon Gideon wrote:
[...] My BIOS apparently does not support the WD, so I had to install
EZ-BIOS into the MBR of both drives. My partition table looks like:
/dev/hda1 ext2 on /boot (I copied the grub images here, in grub, so they
are accessible from /boot/grub once Linux
On Mar 26, Ben Byer wrote:
I would also like to see the boot sector of the fat partition just in
case it is a bug in grub's fat. You can extract it in linux with
dd if=/dev/hda1 of=fatbpb.dat bs=64 count=1
Since it's small, I've attached it to this message.
The fat boot sector is
On Mar 24, Peter Wiehe wrote:
Does grub use (for its own partition) a own FS format that differs
from FAT and ext2?
Grub doesn't use its own partition, instead you can put it in any
fat/ext2/minix/ffs or reiserfs partition.
If you embed grub after the MBR it doesn't create a new partition,
On Mar 23, marco grigull wrote:
How do I get this added to the FAQ?
I know that it is a terrible item, given the frequent postings on
this topic this does belong in the FAQ.
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15. How do I Uninstall grub?
There's already such an entry in the faq:
On Mar 14, Adam Schrotenboer wrote:
How do I tell GRUB to not pass the mem=xx param to the linux kernel?
Use "kernel --no-mem-option ..." (implemented in grub-0.5.96.1).
Jochen
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On Mar 3, bubba lee wrote:
I installed linux on my computer with windows still on
it. I repartitioned my hard drive and had both
operating systems on it. My computer used the grub to
select between operating systems. But i removed the
linux partition and now the grub os selector doesnt
On Feb 26, dup wrote:
Hi,
i have already install grub on my machine, but after i reinstall all
the system (Linux, Windows), i can't install grub.
I ve made it many times but now it don't want with error 27 (i
think) where it says that it can't write to the disk. Please why it
does this
On Feb 6, thomas poindessous wrote:
I have a IBM 40 Gig. As my bios doesn't reconized it, I have installed
EZ-Drive. If I boot with GRUB floopy disk, it handle my partitions but
Linux think my disk is only 33 Gig. If I boot with GRUB floppy after the
EZ-DRIVE selector, GRUB can't get my
On Feb 2, Thierry Laronde wrote:
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 05:08:50PM +0100, Thierry Laronde wrote:
There is a part of a floppy that is lost because
of the formatting informations. Roughly, the "real" size of the media is
2MB.
This formulation is, at best, ambiguous. In fact, the 1440
On Feb 1, Thierry Laronde wrote:
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 09:03:03PM +0100, Adrian Phillips wrote:
"Thierry" == Thierry Laronde [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Thierry The problem is not related to grub. IIRC, now reiserfs is
Thierry included in the new linux 2.4.1 _but_ the previous
On Jan 31, Anton Safonov wrote:
Hi!
I've succeeded finaly to install grub (0.5.96.1) onto reiserfs root
partition. No errors.
Command:
install (hd0,0)/boot/grub/stage1 d (hd0) (hd0,0)/boot/grub/stage2 0x8000
p (hd0,0)/etc/grub.conf
Kernel: 2.4.1-13
Kernel boots, but fails to mount
On Jan 30, Jared Ream wrote:
I've gone through Grub's info pages and I've not seen a reference to a
way to get Grub to not probe devices when invoked. Is there a way to do
such a thing?
Yes there is create a /etc/grub.map containing something like this:
(fd0) /dev/fd0
(hd0) /dev/hda
(hd1)
On Jan 31, Thierry Laronde wrote:
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 02:52:58PM +0100, Thierry Laronde wrote:
Is grub able to write sectors ordinarily ? In at least one case, the
answer is yes : with the install command. So this succeeds with
install and fails with a function using the
On Jan 25, rob wrote:
[...]
However, when I boot
up, and the GRUB comes up I do not see Win2000 as an option (some might
call this a "Good Thing" ;-)). How do I tell GRUB to present Win2000 as
an option?
You have to edit /boot/grub/menu.lst under linux. See the grub info
files for details
On Jan 22, Anton Safonov wrote:
Hi!
2) Best Linux T-1 - gcc 2.95, kernel 2.4.0-final...
Grub 0.5.96 (Jan 9 2001) compiles OK, on install says: Disk write error!
The latest released version of grub is 0.5.96.1, which came out just
two weeks after 0.5.96 (on Oct 19 2000). 0.5.96.1 fixes this
On Jan 12, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote:
From: "Ingo Korb" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
By the way, I just checked the in-memory image of the Win9x boot sector
after it is loaded by the OS/2 boot manager. It seems that the BM does
the same as the patch you sent me, but additionally it sets the byte
On Jan 9, Anton Anisimov wrote:
Hi,
Seems that I found a problem with ReiserFS GRUB in
grub-0.5.96(2000-10-06).
When I install GRUB by install command to hard drive where we have
installed ReiserFS it generate such error:
29 : Disk write error
This is a bug with grub shell in 0.5.96
On Jan 5, Matthias Granberry wrote:
Thanks. It worked like a charm. Why is it that embed worked while
installing on a floppy disk? I guess it might have something to do with
being unpartitioned.
Yes, the code to embed after the MBR was broken, but a floppy doesn't
have a MBR.
BTW, the
On Jan 7, Michael Haub wrote:
Thanks a lot Jochen,
Correct me if i am wrong:
AFIAK Ontrack's Diskmanager has the same features and hides its
presence better than EZ-BIOS. The lost bytes in the first track
don't matter for nowadays disk sizes.
Yes, as long as the Diskmanager is installed
On Dec 31, Don Mayhew wrote:
I have been trying to install GRUB on a floppy
using the instructions found via info grub
provided on my Mandrake 7.2 distro.
-
In one place the instructions are:
$ mke2fs /dev/fd0
mount it, say at /mnt (I used
On Dec 29, Matthias Granberry wrote:
If anyone can help me find out what is causing the error, I'd be
very grateful. I'm still able to use older grub versions, as well
as CVS grubs from early december. I'm guessing that the
grub-install changes from the 9th to the 14th might have something
Hello Michael,
I can answer some of your questions, as I have added the EZ support to
grub.
You should first get the latest CVS version of grub if you don't have
it already. grub-0.5.96.1 can destroy your MBR if you use it with
EZ-BIOS.
On Dec 29, Michael Haub wrote:
i try to figure out if
On Dec 30, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 12:47:18AM -0600, James Magnusson wrote:
I just installed Caldera eDesktop 2.4 on to a dual processor machine at
home. And it took two days to figure out why Grub wouldn't boot linux.
It would just give me its command
On Dec 22, Chris Heller wrote:
Hello,
The problem I have is that when I go to boot into windows, GRUB prints a
message loading Stage1.5 and then it prints Loading Grub... and then it goes
back into the grub menu.
When I install grub, I use the command `grub-install /dev/hda1`
You have
On Dec 4, Jeff Sheinberg wrote:
Hi,
I find that both grub 0.5.96.1 and 0.5.97 (cvs 2000-12-11) cannot
find the `e' ufs partition, however, both can find the `a' on
partition (hd2,3). This happens with the grub shell as well.
Have you seen the mail from Heikki Vatiainen:
On Nov 23, Jochen Hoenicke wrote:
Sorry but I cannot make work any relative or absolute symlink. I use only
one filesystem so there is nothing with mounted or unmounted filesystems.
I've tried symlinks /vmlinuz -- boot/vmlinuz-2.4.0 ,
/vmlinuz -- /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.0 , /boot/vmlinuz
On Nov 24, David C. Hoos, Sr. wrote:
Hi,
I have a Compaq laptop (Presario 1825 w/ 12Gb. disk) on which I
have been running Mandrake 7.1, and Windows 98 for some months.
All of a sudden, when I select Windows from the Grub menu, I get
the message Invalid system disk, but Linux still boots
On Nov 20, Leszek Gerwatowski wrote:
On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 05:35:12PM -0600, Gordon Matzigkeit wrote:
Leszek Gerwatowski writes:
LG But when I use symlink (I use Debian 2.2 and it creates symlink
LG /vmlinuz to latest image installed and /vmlinuz.old to older
LG kernel image) in
On Nov 10, Sven LUTHER wrote:
Ok, here is more data, ...
First, i was using grub 0.5.95, downloaded the newer version today (0.5.96.1)
will see if it changes anything.
The exact message is :
Error: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by bios.
some more info is as follows :
On Nov 7, Sven LUTHER wrote:
Package: grub
Version: 0.5.96.1
I reflashed the bios with the latest version from iwill, but still,
grub don't want to look past the 512Kb barrier. The strange thing is
that MBR has no problem booting from partition 2 and 3 so right now
i have a grub floppy
On Nov 1, David Tamara Carney wrote:
Jochen Hoenicke wrote:
Place it in /boot/grub/menu.lst and if you have a /boot partition, add
a symlink: "cd /boot; ln -s . boot" (The next version of grub will
hopefully not need the symlink anymore).
Jochen,
I think I tried what you
On Oct 31, Kurt Skauen wrote:
The only solution I found to this (other than hacking the
linker-scripts) was to strip away the offending sections with the "-R"
option to objcopy.
The resulting makfile rule:
%: %.exec
$(OBJCOPY) -O binary -R .hash -R .dynsym -R .dynstr -R .rel.text
On Oct 29, Volker Augustin wrote:
Hello,
Is there a way to allocate a huge block of memory in the high memory
area?
The high memory is mainly used by the commands that are loading kernel
images. There is no fixed rule who may use high memory in which way,
so you have to be careful when
Hello,
There was a bug report from Ning Ma recently, that turned out to be
caused by EZ-BIOS. I researched what EZ-BIOS does and how grub must
be changed, so they work flawlessly together.
EZ-BIOS installs itself into the MBR in a transparent way: It backups
the MBR to the next sector, and
On Oct 22, Ning Ma wrote:
Sorry for my ignorance. I just install Linux with GRUB as bootloader, and
unfortunately, my computer does not boot from hard disk any more. It
can boot from floppy disk, but I could not boot into my Window 98 system.
Lets guess: When you boot from the hard disk
Hello folks,
The "setup" command does now almost support boot partition, but only
almost. When installing an embedded stage1_5 it doesn't give the path
to the "REAL_CONFIG_FILE", and thus the default of
"/boot/grub/menu.lst" is never overwritten. The following patch
should fix that.
I think
On Oct 24, Ning Ma wrote:
Now I think I know what's happening. My BIOS has a problem of recognizing
a hard disk over 8GB. So I have a program called "EZ-BIOS" installed at
MBR on my hard disk. GRUB seems to destroy that extra EZ-BIOS information
completely and left the hard disk a
On Oct 20, Jan Fricke wrote:
Hallo!
From the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard -- Version 2.1":
Configuration files for boot loaders should be placed in /etc.
This rule is broken for grub. In the note they explicitly mention the
case where only the /boot partition is accessible by the boot
Hi,
I have now integrated the md5 passwords into grub. The patch is at
http://www.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/~delwi/grub/grub-md5-passwords.tar.gz
The tar.gz contains the output "cvs diff -u" and three files that I
added to the repository.
If the password command is used with the "--md5"
On Oct 17, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote:
From: "Jochen Hoenicke" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Special password protection [PATCH]
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 11:18:30 +0200 (MET DST)
I have now integrated the md5 passwords into grub. The patch is at
http://www.informatik.uni-oldenburg
Hello,
The new md5 password handling is checked in. If you need to create
md5 passwords, look in the tar archive mentioned in my previous mail
for a perl script (portable C-code pending...).
Okuji: I changed the .texi-files to reflect the changes, but I don't
have texinfo 4.0 installed here.
On Oct 15, Jan Hilberath wrote:
Hello!
I am using the grub 0.5.96 ext2fs disk image.
Curently i only have one primary partition on my harddisk. So i thought
it would be the right way to boot my DOS with this commands:
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
But this gave me
On Oct 16, Volker Augustin wrote:
Hello, I have 2 questions:
1. Is there a way to use GRUB to boot a bootable CD?
Not at the moment. I think most BIOSes that can boot CD-ROM don't
provide an interface to this functionality. This means that a boot
loader has to provide it's own ATAPI driver
On Oct 12, Loris Caren wrote:
Thanks for the excellent suggestion, I should have RTFM. Alas however
invoking map has made no difference although you are clearly right since if I
remove the IDE drive I can get grub to boot the NT. Maybe I'm not
understanding the map command (and this time I
On Oct 12, Martin Sapsed wrote:
In the grub shell I do
root (hd0,2)
setup (hd0)
and get the same errors as Thierry got.
I have looked in the archives as suggested in the original reply to
Thierry's message but can't see anything relevant. Maybe I'm looking in
the wrong place since
Hello Loris,
On Oct 12, Loris Caren wrote:
I'm using grub-0.5.96 on an Asus P2L97S to perform muti-booting and it mostly
works very well indeed (getting round a 1024 problem I was having with
Lilo), so first, a word of thanks - it's a nice product. However, I can't get
it to boot a copy of
On Oct 5, Alessandro Rubini wrote:
I didn't look at filesystem code in grub, but I don't think it should
be too difficult to implement "mv". The only issue I see is that
currently FS access is read-only, while in this case you require write
access, and this can introduced non-trivial issues
On Oct 5, Alessandro Rubini wrote:
There has been no reply to this question. While I offered to document
stage-1.5, I can't find any information about it, either. Can someone
please shed some light to help me getting started?
The purpose of stage1_5 is to load stage2 by interpreting the
On Sep 25, Thierry DELHAISE wrote:
Hi all,
I would like to know if it's possible with the latest version of grub, to
store all needed files from grub under a FAT32 partition : can I store stage
1, stage1.5, stage2, menu.lst under a FAT32 partition.
is it possible to create a \boot\grub
On Sep 5, Roger W. Best wrote:
I appreciate the differentiation of the kernal from the operating system,
BUT you did NOT
address the problem of why there is NOT any documentation anywhere on the
PLANET EARTH
that instructs or demonstrates HOW in the HECK to get the"Grub" boot loader
off of
On Aug 30, Alessandro Rubini wrote:
I agree. I spent some time trying to understand the error to provide
you with a proposed patch, but didn't manage to.
The problem is that as-2.9.1 doesn't use the shortest opcodes for some
assembler instructions. Since stage1.S has to fit together with
On Aug 23, Eric BARTHEL wrote:
Hi,
I'm Eric BARTHEL living in France and working under Windows 98 SE
and Linux Mandrake 7.1 on a PC with Abit SL6 (i815) motherboard, a
Tekram DC390U2w SCSI Adapter and two hard drives : an IBM 10 Go on
second IDE port, and an IBM 8.5 Go SCSI drive on the
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