16-Aug-00 04:26 you wrote:
--
"... being a Linux user is sort of like living in a house inhabited
by a large family of carpenters and architects. Every morning when
you wake up, the house is a little different. Maybe there is a new
turret, or some walls have moved. Or perhaps someone has
15-Aug-00 12:47 you wrote:
From: Andres VHNet Staff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: problems w/ linux 2.4.0-testX and reiserfs 3.6.11
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 21:02:26 -0400
Oops, sorry about that. i wanted to keep the email short, i thought i posted
the errors as well ;) Anyways, here's
10-Aug-00 14:10 you wrote:
Hello there,
I seem to have a problem booting with grub. I'm trying to boot GNU/Linux
from a SCSI drive on an Adaptec 2940UW. My machine also has 2 IDE drives
connected to the on-board IDE interface (Asus P55T2P4, HX chipset).
While installing Grub from Linux, it
26-Jul-00 01:33 you wrote:
It's not a fatal bug but very annoying.
Of course it's not fatal bug, it's not even bug at all if you'll think about it:
GRUB knows NOTHING about what's mounted where. And that's good, that's how GRUB
was designed and how it should work. So it's feature, not bug.
will not read GRUB documentation
anyway...
Dave
On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Khimenko Victor wrote:
26-Jul-00 01:33 you wrote:
It's not a fatal bug but very annoying.
Of course it's not fatal bug, it's not even bug at all if you'll think about it:
GRUB knows NOTHING about what's mounted
25-Jul-00 21:10 you wrote:
I've fixed some bugs in the code. Now GRUB can boot bzImage
successfully (at least for 2.2.x) but cannot boot zImage.
It's VERY hard to fit usable 2.2.x kernel in zImage and impossible for 2.4.x
(talks about bloat :-(( ) so I think it's Ok. zImage exist at all
25-Jul-00 11:47 you wrote:
First: Sorry I sent to this email.
Question: Your web page mentions you support NT (chaining mode), can you
elaborate?
What's exactly your problem ? I have both NT and W2K chain-loaded from
GRUB without problems, for example.
25-Jul-00 10:21 you wrote:
Dave Siracusa writes:
DS Question: Your web page mentions you support NT (chaining mode),
DS can you elaborate?
From the GRUB Manual (grub)Configuration:
# For booting Windows NT or Windows95
title Windows NT / Windows 95 boot menu
root
14-Jul-00 16:41 you wrote:
From: "Khimenko Victor" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Bug in kernel - how to make big kernel bootable with GRUB (was Re:Linux
2.4.0-Test{1,2} with Grub (I think I found the answer))
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 04:22:49 +0400 (MSD)
But even then GRUB will no
In 8kmab1$ja8$[EMAIL PROTECTED] H. Peter Anvin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Followup to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
By author:"Khimenko Victor" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
Who's the bright idea was to extend maximum kernel beyond 1MB and STILL write
only two bytes o
In 8kmadc$jb4$[EMAIL PROTECTED] H. Peter Anvin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Followup to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
By author:"Khimenko Victor" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
The field never got extended because nobody really needed it extended.
That's as simple as
In [EMAIL PROTECTED] H. Peter Anvin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
HA Khimenko Victor wrote:
We have noticed. You may note that kernels 1 MB warn that they can
no longer be booted by the kernel boot sector.
And why it was done this way, BTW ? Fix is not that hard. Perhaps they should
say
13-Jul-00 00:40 you wrote:
Hi,
I recently had time to mess with grub and linux 2.4.0-test{1,2} and to get
my set up working. I've found that the problem seems to be that when the
kernel is too big, one gets that error. The kernel mentioned in my last
email was fairly large (1.1MB)
14-Jul-00 05:00 you wrote:
From: "Khimenko Victor" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.0-Test{1,2} with Grub (I think I found the answer)
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 20:46:30 +0400 (MSD)
I do not think it justifies GRUB unability to load such kernel: latest LiLo
In [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linus Torvalds
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Khimenko Victor wrote:
Huh. Patch is trivial. Really trivial. Just one problem: I do not think it'll
be applied. Since it's TWO patches: one for kernel and one for GRUB.
Actually, the only problem
In [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andrea Arcangeli
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
AA [ disclaimer: I have no idea what GRUS is ]
Ok. Then I'll write short explanation (enough to understood discussed
problem). GRUB is bootloader. It DOES NOT use linux's kernel to parse
partition tables and access disk via
29-Jun-00 22:02 you wrote:
Package: grub
Version: 0.5.93.1
Arch: i386
I have the following setup:
hda: normal ide disk
hdb: [nothing]
hdc: cdrom
hdd: zip drive
hde: udm66 ide drive
(1)
When run interactively in Linux, grub won't detect
hde because it only scans the first 4 drives.
27-Jun-00 09:38 you wrote:
hello,
y want to say that your soft is very good. With lilo i didn't
boot on my scsi hard disk, but with brub i could.
I have one problem i must swap my disks in bios, ok?
Ok. Just don't expect it from GRUB :-) It's really BIOS- and MB- dependant
feature. Unability
27-Jun-00 07:59 you wrote:
vince h writes:
vh For booting to windows i must have this order hd2 hd0 hd1 (scsi
vh ide0 ide1) else windows dont see all dos partitions.
This is a FAQ, and explained in the GRUB manual (grub)DOS/Windows:
DON'T DO IT ! See below.
DOS/Windows
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28-Jun-00 00:52 you wrote:
From: "Khimenko Victor" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: problem or bug?
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 16:14:37 +0400 (MSD)
Ok. Just don't expect it from GRUB :-) It's really BIOS- and MB- dependant
feature. Unability to swap disks is NOT bug - there are just N
28-Jun-00 04:11 you wrote:
From: "Khimenko Victor" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: problem or bug?
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 21:27:29 +0400 (MSD)
WILL NOT use "virus compatibility mode". And that's what I said - there are
NO clean way to swap drives in GRUB (note "exce
27-Jun-00 14:29 you wrote:
Khimenko Victor writes:
Ok. Just don't expect it from GRUB :-)
Don't tell a lie.
KV "LIE" ?? It WAS truth and it IS truth.
There is no need for anybody to get upset.
Khimenko, it would have been much easier if you just said ``GRUB can
do wha
4-Jun-00 13:18 you wrote:
Hello from Gregg C Levine
The problem obviously sat with my interpetations of the installation rules,
described in the info files. Since I only glanced at them to make sure they
were installed correctly, this will require a closer look, and that I will
do. Given
3-Jun-00 14:34 you wrote:
From: "Khimenko Victor" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: The list of outstanding reports that should be closed
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 23:11:09 +0400 (MSD)
Someone can explain from WHERE this weird check come anyway ?
That seems to be introduced by my
3-Jun-00 02:35 you wrote:
* #61513: enabling `lba-support-bitmap-check' marks some systems unbootable
That was just because he forgot to specify the option
`--enable-lba-support-bitmap-check' for the configure script. Not a
GRUB bug. Moreover, I've already changed the check to an
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