Re: Is it the list for GRUB2?

2007-11-10 Thread Marco Gerards
J.Bakshi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, IS it the list for discussion with GRUB2 also ? thanks No, for GRUB 2 we use [EMAIL PROTECTED] (posting is allowed for subscribers only). -- Marco ___ Bug-grub mailing list Bug-grub@gnu.org

Re: GRUB 1.96 when?

2007-04-25 Thread Marco Gerards
shirish agarwal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Any idea when GRUB 1.96 be a reality? Any time-frame anybody? Thanx in advance. You can use a CVS checkout of GRUB 2. -- Marco ___ Bug-grub mailing list Bug-grub@gnu.org

Re: 1.94 not compiling

2006-10-05 Thread Marco Gerards
Folkert van Heusden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, ./normal/parser.y:54: unrecognized: %lex-param ./normal/parser.y:54:Skipping to next % ./normal/parser.y:55: unrecognized: %parse-param ./normal/parser.y:55:Skipping to next % make: *** [grub_script.tab.c] Error 1 2 [EMAIL

Re: [PATCH] skip removal of menu.lst in grub-install

2006-09-14 Thread Marco Gerards
Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any comments on this? (resending to grub-devel, previously missed it). This looks fine to me. Can you please apply it? -- Marco ___ Bug-grub mailing list Bug-grub@gnu.org

GPT partitioning support

2006-07-25 Thread Marco Gerards
2 like I used to. -- Marco 2006-07-25 Marco Gerards [EMAIL PROTECTED] * stage2/disk_io.c: Include gpt.h. (next_partition): Added the `gpt_offset', `gpt_count' and `gpt_size' arguments. If the MBR is a Protective MBR, use the GPT partition table. Added

Re: A20 patch

2006-07-22 Thread Marco Gerards
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Before this gets out of control, I'd like to clarify a few things. There is too much confusion already. I'm very sorry I was the one who started this. :-/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Friday 21 July 2006 11:58, Molle Bestefich wrote: Whom on earth wants to use

A20 patch

2006-07-17 Thread Marco Gerards
this patch? I see this as a bugfix, do you? Thanks, Marco 2006-07-17 Marco Gerards [EMAIL PROTECTED] * stage2/asm.S (gateA20): Code backported from GRUB2. Written by Yoshinori K. Okuji [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Index: stage2/asm.S

Bug in Bootcamp

2006-07-17 Thread Marco Gerards
Hi, There is a bug in apple's bootcamp. This was found by some solaris hackers: https://www.opensolaris.org/jive/message.jspa?messageID=32756 First of all, I haven't contacted them yet... Are there any legal issues in applying this? I think it is quite trivial, it's 4 lines of assembler

Re: Gnu Grub booting from CD

2006-04-16 Thread Marco Gerards
Niklaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I have a bootable CD and normal ISO9660 data CD , both has linux on it. I don't have the BIOS password and hence cannot change the bios startup options. 1) Is there any way to boot the CD from grub command line ? 2) Can i access the data in ISO9660

GRUB 1.93 is released

2006-03-31 Thread Marco Gerards
I'm happy to announce the release of GRUB 1.93. This is the fourth of our prereleases leading up to GRUB 2.0. We encourage you to try it, as we have done a significant amount of work towards GRUB 2. Note that this release is mainly for developers who are willing to contribute to our project. If

Re: documentation typo

2006-03-26 Thread Marco Gerards
Herta Van den Eynde [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Herta, http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Installing-GRUB-natively.html tells you to enter grub find /boot/grub/stage1 to find the partition that contains the /boot directory. Looks like a typo to me. This command works

Re: Grub and UEFI

2006-02-19 Thread Marco Gerards
Eli Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Does anyone know if there is going to be an implementation of Grub for UEFI systems? My plans are to add EFI support to GRUB 2 in the future, if no one else will work on that. Can you tell me about the differences between EFI and UEFI and where UEFI

Re: help regarding development of GRUB2

2006-02-13 Thread Marco Gerards
srikanth kadire [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Srikanth, I am a new member in this group. I am interested in contributing something to GRUB2 development, so can somebody send the list of improvements that have been done already and also the list of things to be done. If you want to read a

Re: configure:1829: error: C compiler cannot create executables

2006-01-29 Thread Marco Gerards
jeffrey Gall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: please assist me (a newbie, Linux Grub) on Grub1.92 attempting to complie and install via openlinux (Caldera) system ! Better use GRUB Legacy. And it is easier to use binary packages. The error means that you don't have a working compiler and you need

Re: call and back commands for grub legacy available

2006-01-25 Thread Marco Gerards
adrian15 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://adrian15.raulete.net/grub/tiki-download_file.php?fileId=39 In this file you will find SGD source code with a folder called dev_grub where grub source code is found patched (a very very ugly patch) for being able to run call and back commands

Re: problem with GRUB and my BIOS?

2006-01-21 Thread Marco Gerards
Tony Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I discovered a possible GRUB problem when booting from the Xen Live CD. I raised a bug there: http://bugzilla.xensource.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=464 The short version seems to be that GRUB doesn't seem to want to find my CD-ROM drive. When I boot

Re: help for new call command - yoshinori requested

2006-01-17 Thread Marco Gerards
David Seikel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:23:59 +0100 Yoshinori K. Okuji [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 12 January 2006 12:35 am, David Seikel wrote: I am a developer. B-) Are you a developer of GRUB? I'm curious about what you are doing with GRUB. I'm not a

Re: boot from cdrom

2006-01-17 Thread Marco Gerards
sumesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dear sir, I can boot from a floppy by the following commands grubrootnoverify (fd0) grubchainloader +1 How can I boot from cdrom like this You can't. -- Marco ___ Bug-grub mailing list

Re: help for new call command - yoshinori requested

2006-01-12 Thread Marco Gerards
David Seikel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 00:24:02 +0100 Yoshinori K. Okuji [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 11 January 2006 05:43 pm, David Seikel wrote: On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 14:25:09 +0100 Yoshinori K. Okuji [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You know that GRUB Legacy

Re: Multiboot and NetBSD

2005-12-30 Thread Marco Gerards
Julio M. Merino Vidal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Julio, Note that, with a little patch to GRUB-Legacy, I'm already able to boot NetBSD kernels with the MB technique. Also note that I haven't finished gathering all the info it requires, so I may find other problems similar to the above

Re: Multiboot and NetBSD

2005-12-30 Thread Marco Gerards
Julio M. Merino Vidal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'll check. I thought that Multiboot was going to be kept as it is now in GRUB 2. But if a new standard is being developed, I'm certainly interested in learning about it, so I'll look at the wiki :-) GRUB 2 will support both. :-) Which makes

Re: compiled v1.90

2005-10-13 Thread Marco Gerards
Guillermo Gutierrez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: could some one be so kind as to provide me with a compiled set of binaries for legacy grub version 1.90? I do not have access to any Linux/Unix systems and can not compile the source. There is no GRUB Legacy 1.90. Version 1.90 is GRUB 2. If you

Re: mount tar.gz fs in grub ?

2005-09-27 Thread Marco Gerards
adrian15 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't know if I told you before but I am having problems on building a grub disk with a lot of little text files... the floppy gets full. Is there any module that permits me loading a tar.gz file as a fs? Is there any module that loads cramfs (this

Console switching ioctls

2005-08-25 Thread Marco Gerards
Hi, To be able to switch from X (and svgalib, etc) to the console and back we need support for some ioctls. I wonder if we want to have such ioctls or do we want a special library (libvt or so). There are several ioctls related for console switching. The most important one is VT_ACTIVATE which

Re: UFS fixes

2005-08-08 Thread Marco Gerards
Rink Springer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Over the last few weeks, I've been working on the FreeBSD/xbox port. However, in order to make it self-booting, the Xbox Linux BIOS (called Cromwell) had to be expanded so it can read UFS filesystems. As Cromwell is based on GRUB, Ed Schouten (who

Re: GRUB, NTFS and CyberLink Power Cinema Linux

2005-05-23 Thread Marco Gerards
Jeroen Janssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyway, I hope this also means the NTFS code can/will be available in a future GRUB release sometime. NTFS support is planned for GRUB 2. GRUB Legacy is, unfortunately, not actively maintained anymore and all new features go into GRUB 2. -- Marco

Re: Grub legacy

2005-04-12 Thread Marco Gerards
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I have DL'd the sources through CVS and I am looking through the bug reports to see if I can help anywhere. If there is something particularly high priority maybe you could point me to it and I'll have a look. I have been coding in visual RADs for a while

Re: BUG with module= command

2005-03-29 Thread Marco Gerards
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've tried loading the multiboot specification demonstration kernel available at : http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/multiboot/multiboot.html . Loading it caused me no problem, but I discovered that there is an issue with the module=

Re: little patch

2005-03-27 Thread Marco Gerards
steven a [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The only other feature I really miss is the ability to chainload an atapi cdrom drive. Is anyone working on this ?. I'm not a really experienced assembly/ioctl programmer, but if no-ones working on this and it wouldn't be too hard to implement, I might

Re: Reserve bss space for modules

2005-03-20 Thread Marco Gerards
Arnaud Vrac [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I did not find any information relating to that point, and as of now, all the modules i load are concateneted in memory (page aligned), leaving no space for the bss symbols. Do i really have to parse the elf headers and allocate the space myself ? That's

Re: latest compiled GRUB

2005-01-27 Thread Marco Gerards
Guillermo Gutierrez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am looking for a pre-compiled version of GRUB that is up to date and would have the latest of any patches of fixes done to it. I have tried and failed to download the latest CVS source and compile it. You could use the floppy images from:

Re: feature request

2005-01-09 Thread Marco Gerards
Torsten Mohr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is it possible for grub to install on a disk /dev/hdb, then switch off the PC, remove disk /dev/hda and replace it with the former disk /dev/hdb that would then boot up as /dev/hda? I think you can do this by manually editing /boot/grub/device.map and

Re: GRUB

2004-12-22 Thread Marco Gerards
andll [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I want to tell you some notes about your program GRUB. I use the 0.94 version of this boot-loader. I think that GRUB is best loader in the world. But the best loader must have some features, I think. As this: I need command 'copy' on your script language.

Re: LVM2 support?

2004-12-17 Thread Marco Gerards
Dirk Meul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is GRUB2 supporting LVM2 and ext2/3? No, it does not support LVM2 yet. If you can give me some pointer about what it is and how it works, I might look into it. -- Marco ___ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL

Re: Variables in grub configuration?

2004-12-16 Thread Marco Gerards
Robinson, Andrew W. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there an equivalent of variables in the grub configuration files? I find that I am specifying the IP address of a server many times over many entries. It would be convenient if I could set it once at the beginning of the file, and then

Re: help about debug Grub

2004-11-08 Thread Marco Gerards
peng shuanghe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I want to know if there is a way to debug grub under linux 7.3 , if there is , then how to debug grub under linux ? Thanks ! What do you want to debug? Some parts of GRUB can be debugged using the grub shell, which is installed in the sbin

Re: A Simple If Condition support in grub config files Patch

2004-11-06 Thread Marco Gerards
Alban Crequy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Le dimanche 31 octobre 2004 à 15:52, Muhammed Fawzy a écrit: Dear Sir, Attached is a patch i made to add a simple conditional statement to the grub config file grub.conf the statement looks like the following root (hd0, 0) kernel

Re: How to get grub with network support?

2004-11-05 Thread Marco Gerards
Robinson, Andrew W. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My question: could some kind soul tell me where to find the patches for the e1000 and tg3 drivers? Then could you explain to me how to apply those patches? Perhaps you can find a patch for the e1000 driver in either the CVS version of GRUB, or

Re: How to get the lastest grub file

2004-10-29 Thread Marco Gerards
Haifeng Jiang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How to get the lastest grub source code from GNU? Everytime I tried the tftp site, it hangs my IE on my W2k machine. You can get it from ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub or use CVS. -- Marco ___ Bug-grub

Re: grub error on ubuntu stanza

2004-10-11 Thread Marco Gerards
Johan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Surprise .. installed mdk 10.1 CE copied over ubuntu stanza as usaual but no ways error.. Error 1 : Filename must be either an absolute path or blocklist. This is new to me. This means there is an error in your menu.lst. It is an exact copy of the stanza on

Re: Grub and AMD64

2004-10-11 Thread Marco Gerards
Arnaud Fontaine [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I try to use GNU Grub on AMD64 computer. However, i have been embarrassing problems. After installation on grub on MBR (without error), i have this message (before loading of the grub menu) : ``Loading Grub, please wait ...'' Can you show us how

Re: Freeze in GRUB Legacy

2004-10-07 Thread Marco Gerards
Norman B. Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 3. The website for GRUB2 links back to GRUB, and the Wiki doesn't really convey the current status to the active (to the casual observer). What do you mean? Is there something wrong with the information in the wiki or is something not up-to-date?

Re: reiser4 in GRUB

2004-10-04 Thread Marco Gerards
Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: tags 268482 wontfix thanks Vitaly, Hans, everyone: GRUB Legacy is frozen for new features. I found this message from Okuji (the GRUB maintainer) explaining the situation wrt reiser4 support:

Re: reiser4 in GRUB

2004-10-04 Thread Marco Gerards
Vitaly Fertman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Reiserfs[34] support for GRUB 2 is quite high on my todo list. But I am a bit worried about reiser4. As far as I know it has plugins and I wonder if I also have to implement all plugins too and how much work it will be to maintain this. all plugins

Re: Freeze in GRUB Legacy

2004-10-04 Thread Marco Gerards
Stefanus Du Toit [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think it's unfortunate that you seem to be so eager to drop GRUB Legacy. I understand that it's not very extensible, but simple fixes like this should be worth it, as they are easy to apply, fairly orthogonal, and only improve GRUB. Considering its

Re: grub floppy snafu

2004-10-03 Thread Marco Gerards
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Haines Brown) writes: When I upgraded from debian woody to sarge, grub (both new and old versions) began to map my drives incorrectly. My work-around has been to change the root command to compensate for the mapping error: sda drive 0 root (hd0,0) sdb

Re: grub without vga or serial

2004-09-30 Thread Marco Gerards
Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Marco, what your saying makes sense. Too much sense in fact. Do you have the source for that release of GRUB? Rebuild it, but tell it to not use that splash screen. Other then that, update things to the most recent release of GRUB. Well, the

Re: grub: support 'guest disks'

2004-09-30 Thread Marco Gerards
Yotam Medini [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now, when writing the grub menu for H2, while at C1, you end up referring to (hd1,.), while you actually want to finally have (hd0,.) when back at H2. A nice feature would be, to have an implicit symbol, for the device-being-booted-by, say 'bd'. A

Re: grub without vga or serial

2004-09-29 Thread Marco Gerards
T. Horsnell (tsh) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a number of machines which form a compute farm and on which there is no vga adapter. I plug in a vga card for debug/development purposes. I would like to be able to boot these with GRUB, but it (V 0.93 on Redhat 9) hangs when there is no vga

Re: lvm support

2004-09-23 Thread Marco Gerards
Harald Dunkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: About 2 years ago somebody posted a patch to add LVM support for Linux to grub (0.92, see bug #977). I don't know why it wasn't included in the CVS tree. Obviously such an extension would be _very_ helpfull. Anyway, today the patch seems to be removed

Re: howto make grub bootimage

2004-09-23 Thread Marco Gerards
Tobias Wollgam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi. I want to install grub into a bootimage/floppyimage, but the way it works with grub 0.92 doesn't work with grub 0.94. What can I do? The old way: bash# losetup /dev/loop0 floppyimage bash# mv /dev/fd0 /dev/fd0-orig bash# ln -s /dev/loop0

Re: Grub with iso9660 [El Torito support is added]

2004-09-16 Thread Marco Gerards
Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On the Fedora list I posted the following question, but have got no good answers. Has anyone the answer? Making a GRUB bootable CD is no problem at all. What I can't get to work is installing GRUB on another medium, like floppy and harddisk, and then, after

Re: Setting kernel console based on grub console?

2004-09-09 Thread Marco Gerards
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd like something like this in stage2, but don't really know how to do it myself: if current_term-name = serial append console=ttyS0,38400 to kernel parameters // Serial console else append nothing // default console You would need scripting support for

Re: grub website

2004-08-20 Thread Marco Gerards
Jason Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyone noticed there doesn't seem to be any links to savannah and friends. I was just going to check grub2 but can't find it. http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/grub Perhaps Okuji will accept a patch for the website if you send one in. My guess is there

Re: Booting Etherboot Images

2004-08-17 Thread Marco Gerards
Dirk van der Walt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: All I want, is to be able to boot of a CD with a menu of choices as to which Rom-O-Matic etherboot image I want to load. Can I use GRUB to boot these etherboot images (ie. have them on the CD as well), or do I have to do it another way. Perhaps

Re: Can't compile cvs version under OpenBSD 3.5-current

2004-08-13 Thread Marco Gerards
Ulrich Kahl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have tried to compile grub2 (today's cvs version) under Openbsd 3.5 current (cvs from beginning august) and run into problems. It seems so, that include files and libraries under /usr/local/includes and /usr/local/lib are ignored. It is possible to

Re: Grub2 Documentation.

2004-08-07 Thread Marco Gerards
John A. Espinal A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I have spent some time trying to get GRUB2 documentaion without any succedd. I did compile and Install it from CVS but I dont know how to go on. The only link I have found is http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/, does it applies to

reiser4 support

2004-08-06 Thread Marco Gerards
Hi, There is a patch that adds reiser4 support to GRUB by namesys. Does someone know why it is not in GRUB CVS? The patch adds support to GRUB by linking GRUB to some reiser4 library. It seems like a trivial patch to me. Please let me know what the problems are and how to get this patch

Re: incorrect handling of holes in ext2 files

2004-08-06 Thread Marco Gerards
Jason Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This fix looks fine to me. Anyone see a problem? If not I'll upload it! It looks fine to me. A proper ext2 implementation needs to handle sparse files. I assume this patch was tested? -- Marco ___ Bug-grub

Re: reiser4 support

2004-08-06 Thread Marco Gerards
Yoshinori K. Okuji [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Friday 06 August 2004 17:54, Jason Thomas wrote: Check the list archives, from memory there was a problem. Perhaps todo with memory usage/allocation, I'm not sure! I think so. Anyway, Marco, I recommend not wasting your time for GRUB Legacy.

Re: Multiboot specification for PowerPC

2004-08-02 Thread Marco Gerards
Peter Bruin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Marco Gerards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Bruin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How is the state of things on a multiboot specification for the PowerPC and other architectures? I saw there is a file powerpc/ieee1275/multiboot.h in the GRUB 2 CVS

Re: Multiboot specification for PowerPC

2004-08-02 Thread Marco Gerards
Peter Bruin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2004-08-02 Peter Bruin [EMAIL PROTECTED] * loader/powerpc/ieee1275/linux.c (grub_load_linux): Remove superfluous checks for validity of ELF header. (grub_linux_init): Pass grub_load_linux instead of grub_rescue_cmd_linux as

Re: Multiboot specification for PowerPC

2004-08-02 Thread Marco Gerards
Peter Bruin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2004-08-02 Peter Bruin [EMAIL PROTECTED] * loader/powerpc/ieee1275/linux.c (grub_load_linux): Remove superfluous checks for validity of ELF header. Why do you want to remove these checks? They don't break anything (yes, I know, if it

Re: Multiboot specification for PowerPC

2004-08-01 Thread Marco Gerards
Peter Bruin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How is the state of things on a multiboot specification for the PowerPC and other architectures? I saw there is a file powerpc/ieee1275/multiboot.h in the GRUB 2 CVS source, but that's just a copy of the i386 version. If anybody has thoughts on it, I'd

Re: my policy on grub legacy

2004-07-27 Thread Marco Gerards
And if the GRUB2 will also consider the diskless boot just as an unimportant feature and let the diskless support (not only by me, but also maybe by other contributors) just as a patch 'hang' on the ML forever like what now GRUB is doing, I'll give up providing any diskless support for

Re: Not able to map hd1-hd0 for booting Windows on hd1

2004-07-21 Thread Marco Gerards
Jason Rennie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I have the following disk set-up: /dev/hda1 * 20GB Debian Sarge (mounted as /) /dev/hda2 2GB Swap Space /deb/hdb1 * 40GB Windows XP I've followed the grub instructions for DOS/Windows. This is what the entry for Windows looks like

Re: GRUB support for RAID

2004-07-21 Thread Marco Gerards
Yoshinori K. Okuji [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In GNU, there is no such term committer, I think. We use contributor and developer. A bit off-topic, but what is the difference between a contributor and a developer? Perhaps my English just isn't good enough to understand the differences between

Re: GRUB error 17 and booting from CD

2004-07-13 Thread Marco Gerards
Lars M. Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If anyone has (or can point me towards) a ReiserFS 3.x capable boot-floppy image, that would make my day... Perhaps the GRUB boot floppy might help. I am not sure if it support reiserfs. ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/ -- Marco

Re: Can GRUB boot an ISO file?

2004-06-30 Thread Marco Gerards
Gerardo Ballabio [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all GRUB people, I'd like to ask a question: is it possible to use GRUB to boot an ISO image file (e.g., a GNU/Linux live CD) stored on the hard disk, without having to burn a CD? No, and that is technically not possible (AFAIK). -- Marco

Re: making your system robust

2004-06-20 Thread Marco Gerards
Yoshinori K. Okuji [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've checked in a big patch to the CVS right now. This is related to the frequently asked feature boot only-once and robust systems. I did this myself, since I was very frustrated by the fact that there was no good patch for this feature. All

Re: CVS was turned off?

2004-05-21 Thread Marco Gerards
Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello from Gregg C Levine That did work. But my big problem is that the project web pages, do not agree with the ones that the Savannah hackers created. Can you quote what both say? I don't see the problem... I do know about the cracking of both

Re: [PATCH] Disable some functions unused in stage 1.5

2004-05-16 Thread Marco Gerards
Pavel Roskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello! make check fails in the latest CVS version. ufs2_stage1_5 is longer than 7168 bytes (it's 7348 bytes for me). I'm using Debian unstable with gcc 3.3.3. I believe new versions of gcc optimize primarily for speed regardless of flags. Thanks

Re: hi

2004-05-13 Thread Marco Gerards
gagan mohan goyal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i am software professional. iam intrested in studying grub bootloader in detail, stepwise can u help me me out There is some documentation about the internals of GRUB Legacy, you can find it in the GRUB Manual, in the section Hacking GRUB. While

Re: Fallback command not enough

2004-05-13 Thread Marco Gerards
Penelope Fudd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A helper program would have to be run after the OS boots, to set a flag saying 'this partition (A) booted correctly', letting GRUB know that it can use partition 'A' again next time. What do you think? Has it been done already? This is a feature that

Re: Patch for UFS2

2004-04-29 Thread Marco Gerards
Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It seems that the FreeBSD project has a patch that adds UFS2 support in GRUB in their CVS (ports collection). I have download it and synced with current GRUB CVS. But chances are that we can't integrate it. In short: the copyright stuff is a real mess.

Re: grub crashes. Crash as in causes the PC to reboot.

2004-01-02 Thread Marco Gerards
James Courtier-Dutton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If by removing it, the geometry command works, I can then look at the real_open_partition function, and add a few grub_printf's to see where it reboots. Does grub have a grub_pause_for_1_second function? That would also help by giving me a

Re: How Do I load XP from grub text mode.

2003-12-31 Thread Marco Gerards
Vikram Garg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have partitioned my hard drive so as to have 2 O.Ss(Linux and XP).Everything was fine for 5 days but yesterday I used Partition Magic to create one more partition for separate virtual memory. It completed the process but then said something is

Re: Installing Grub

2003-11-12 Thread Marco Gerards
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I'm curious if the boot floppy procedure (cat stage1 stage2 /dev/fd0) would work on a hard disk (cat stage1 stage2 /dev/ataraid/d0). If so, would grub be able to install over itself (ie setup (hd0) ). The reason I ask is that I have a grub boot floppy made

Re: The BSDs

2003-10-22 Thread Marco Gerards
Alexander Langer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thus spake Dan Kegel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Let's say somebody wants to use Grub to boot all their operating systems. To achieve this, it helps if the operating systems support the multiboot spec. You can use the chainloader for *BSD and still

Re: plan

2003-10-17 Thread Marco Gerards
Yoshinori K. Okuji [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The consequences will be: * The CVS module pupa will be grub2 in the GRUB's CVS repository, * We will use bug-grub instead of pupa-dev for general discussion, * And, we will set up a web page about GRUB2 in the GRUB's web site. IMHO this is a good

Re: switching between lilo and grub

2003-10-14 Thread Marco Gerards
Aaron P. Martinez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Next i used 'kernel /vmlinuz' and it recognized my kernel and then i typed 'boot' but it kernel panicked saying it couldn't mount root fs on 48:05. I'm pretty lost and was under the impression that this would be quite easy. I could leave

Re: switching between lilo and grub

2003-10-14 Thread Marco Gerards
Aaron P. Martinez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 15:16, Marco Gerards wrote: Aaron P. Martinez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Next i used 'kernel /vmlinuz' and it recognized my kernel and then i typed 'boot' but it kernel panicked saying it couldn't mount root

Re: ppc

2003-10-07 Thread Marco Gerards
Yoshinori Okuji [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] How to extend it to PowerPC? That is a difficult question but quite interesting. Absolutely. I think it won't even be hard to port PUPA to the New world apples for example. There was an idea that could make the specification more extensible.

Re: ppc

2003-10-07 Thread Marco Gerards
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am currently working on the Hurdppc project (http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/hurdppc). One step of the project is to port the OSKit to the powerpc architecture. The port is most done now. Then we will adapt osfmach to use the OSKit. It includes the boot

Re: Don`t understand error message

2003-10-04 Thread Marco Gerards
Yoshinori Okuji [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: --- Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Btw, I recall that the GNU system doesn't have any native filesystem yet. For example we have gnu ext2fs and gnu ufs (filesystem servers, both part of the Hurd package) IIRC, Thomas said that he had an

Re: [PATCH][RFC] forward/backward a word facility

2003-09-29 Thread Marco Gerards
Daniele Bellucci [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi All, this is a little patch for grub-0.93 to add te following cmdline features: - C-g: move backward a word - C-l: move forward a word I really like these features, but why don't you use Emacs like key bindings? Read info readline if you

Re: [PATCH][RFC] forward/backward a word facility

2003-09-29 Thread Marco Gerards
Daniele Bellucci [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Chaac, and tnx for your review On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 11:29:20PM +0300, chaac wrote: |29.9.2003 23:17:14, Marco Gerards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | |Daniele Bellucci [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | Hi All, | | this is a little patch for grub

Re: [PATCH][RFC] forward/backward a word facility

2003-09-29 Thread Marco Gerards
(I think I accidently send a reply some minutes ago, please ignore it. I suck in using keybindings when sleepy :)) Daniele Bellucci [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Chaac, and tnx for your review On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 11:29:20PM +0300, chaac wrote: |29.9.2003 23:17:14, Marco Gerards [EMAIL

Re: GRUB portability

2003-09-26 Thread Marco Gerards
Yoshinori Okuji [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] If you are thinking of porting a boot loader seriously, please contribute to PUPA. You will have to work on common parts as well as architecture-specific parts, definitely. Robert just told me (on IRC) that PUPA doesn't have multiboot support.

Re: GRUB portability

2003-09-26 Thread Marco Gerards
Yoshinori Okuji [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] This year I work for a company, so I work on PUPA only in my spare time. PUPA is purely a volunteer-based project now. And perhaps if you call it GRUB2 and put it in /cvsroot/grub/grub2, then more people interested on adding features to

Re: GRUB portability

2003-09-26 Thread Marco Gerards
Yoshinori Okuji [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: --- Marco Gerards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Although this is applicable to GRUB as well, the main problem of PUPA is that quite few people are interested in the core development. So I'm afraid that nobody will join the project, until PUPA has

GRUB portability

2003-09-24 Thread Marco Gerards
Hi, Because of the release of L4 (L4Ka::Pistachio) and the recent l4-Hurd developments it becomes really interesting to have a multiboot complaint bootloader on many architectures. Of course I want to use GRUB on all these architectures (I'm mainly interested in the PPC and Alpha architectures).