Re: GRUB overwritten by Win98

2002-05-05 Thread Mario Klebsch
artitions, he can use the GRUB shell to reinstall GRUB. I am not sure, wether ``grub-install /dev/hda'' does its job, when you have your linux file system hierarchy mounted on /mnt instead of on /, but the GRUB shell does have the setup command, too. 73, Mario -- Mario Klebsch

Re: HTTP Grub?

2002-05-02 Thread Mario Klebsch
ll serve the same files. When the client get more than one response to their bootp request, it chooses the first one. If a server gets loaded, its responses usually will be late. 73, Mario -- Mario Klebsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP-Key available at http://ww

Re: HTTP Grub?

2002-05-01 Thread Mario Klebsch
Am Mittwoch den, 1. Mai 2002, um 19:13, schrieb Alex Thiel: > On Wednesday 01 May 2002 18:26, Mario Klebsch wrote: >> You have to implement TCP for it. Since TCP is not that easy to >> implement, I would suspect, is is easier to go for NFS, because it only >> needs

Re: HTTP Grub?

2002-05-01 Thread Mario Klebsch
sily solve this problem. How hard > would this be to implement? You have to implement TCP for it. Since TCP is not that easy to implement, I would suspect, is is easier to go for NFS, because it only needs UDP, which is already implemented for TFTP. 73, Mari

Re: need terminfo for serial console?

2002-04-29 Thread Mario Klebsch
Am Montag den, 29. April 2002, um 20:13, schrieb Yoshinori K. Okuji: > At Sun, 28 Apr 2002 22:25:04 -0700 (PDT), > Dr. Tilmann Bubeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> it will not change the code much. The most obvious change would be, >> that all >> your hardcoded "escape strings", like "\e%dJ" wi

Re: need terminfo for serial console?

2002-04-29 Thread Mario Klebsch
Hi everybody! Am Montag den, 29. April 2002, um 02:49, schrieb Yoshinori K. Okuji: > At Sun, 28 Apr 2002 20:50:56 +0200, > Dr.Tilmann Bubeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Are you (the project coordinators) interested in getting a patch for >> grub >> to read terminfo files on harddisk, therefor

Re: Win98 boot changes linux partition type from 0x83

2002-03-19 Thread Mario Klebsch
ng the wrong partition type, nor should linux have. 73, Mario - -- Mario Klebsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP-Key available at http://www.klebsch.de/public.key Fingerprint DSS: EE7C DBCC D9C8 5DC1 D4DB 1483 30CE 9FB2 A047 9CE0 Diffie-Hellman: D447 4ED6 8

Re: help doesn't list all any longer

2002-02-05 Thread Mario Klebsch
is feature (they set lines to 0). I liked this build-in more very much and missed it a thousand times in other OSes. BTW, when I worked on SunOS3.5 with suntools, the suntools terminal emulator had this feature, too. The cursor changed to a stop sign, when the output was halted. 73, Mario - --

Re: Wheel "\|/-" instead of dots "......"

2002-01-31 Thread Mario Klebsch
of a file. Is the size of the file known prior to downloading it? If yes, grub could have a relative progress indicator, e.g. 50 chars wide, each chars for 2% of the download. It shpould be possible to implement this progress indicator without having to use /r or /b. 73,

Re: experience with XFS?

2001-12-09 Thread Mario Klebsch
the system nor grub are self-compiled, so I have no idea, what patches were put into them. 73, Mario - -- Mario Klebsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP-Key available at http://www.klebsch.de/public.key Fingerprint DSS: EE7C DBCC D9C8 5DC1 D4DB 1483 30CE 9FB2 A047 9

Re: windows XP NTFS\redhat 7.2

2001-11-15 Thread Mario Klebsch
y have an idea, how to get rid of the Xp booter on the W98 partition? - - -- Mario Klebsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP-Key available at http://www.klebsch.de/public.key Fingerprint DSS: EE7C DBCC D9C8 5DC1 D4DB 1483 30CE 9FB2 A047 9CE0 Diffie-Hellman: D447 4ED6

Re: pxe works!

2001-11-08 Thread Mario Klebsch
intel express pro). None > of the proposed alternatives knew about this (etherboot, netboot), it > seemed. I did program etherbot into the FLASH rom of the intel NICs several times. These cards work perfectly fine with etherboot. 73, Mario - -- Mario Klebsch

Re: GRUB plans...

2001-10-13 Thread Mario Klebsch
always liked the booting capabilities of the SPARC firmware and was estonished to find almost the same firmware in my Macintosh. 73, Mario - -- Mario Klebsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP-Key available at http://www.klebsch.de/public.key Fingerprint DSS: EE7C DBCC

Re: USB disk

2001-10-06 Thread Mario Klebsch
? WHen grub starts up, it creates a device mapping file, which contains the mapping e.g. '(hd0)'->'/dev/hda', '(hd1)'->'/dev/hdb',... Have you tried to add a mapping for your USB device? 73, Mario - -- Mario Klebsch

Re: can't boot due to root device problem

2001-09-30 Thread Mario Klebsch
ilo. 73, Mario - -- Mario Klebsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP-Key available at http://www.klebsch.de/public.key Fingerprint DSS: EE7C DBCC D9C8 5DC1 D4DB 1483 30CE 9FB2 A047 9CE0 Diffie-Hellman: D447 4ED6 8A10 2C65 C5E5 8B98 9464 53FF 9382 F518 -BEGI

Re: what replaces "emergency"?

2001-09-30 Thread Mario Klebsch
oc/cmdline). Tom should look into his /etc/lilo.conf. He will find an entry called "emergency" there and he has to build the GRUBs equivalent for it. 73, Mario - -- Mario Klebsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP-Key available at http://www.klebsch.de/publi

Re: can't boot due to root device problem

2001-09-30 Thread Mario Klebsch
to run on your system, if it is loaded by other means (e.g. from disk or via etherboot). When I build a new kernel, I always put it on a disk (make bzdisk) first, to see wether it boots fine. 73, Mario - -- Mario Klebsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP-Key availab

Re: Wishlist (it's a must)

2001-09-23 Thread Mario Klebsch
o I would not argue about unnessecary complexity. 73, Mario - -- Mario Klebsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP-Key available at http://www.klebsch.de/public.key Fingerprint DSS: EE7C DBCC D9C8 5DC1 D4DB 1483 30CE 9FB2 A047 9CE0 Diffie-Hellman: D447 4ED6 8A10 2C65 C

Re: Wishlist (it's a must)

2001-09-22 Thread Mario Klebsch
seen. So in this case any cls() would be removed, too. So, my vote is for removing the cls() calls and leting the menu clear the screen. Howebver, I am not sure what to do in case there are error messages and the user wants a menu. Perhaps a 'hotkey' could be used to suppress the menu.

Re: hide/unhide

2001-08-30 Thread Mario Klebsch
ease somewhat familiar to the code. If noone volunteers to do this job, I could try my luck on it in about two weeks, when I am back from holliday. 73, Mario - -- Mario Klebsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP-Key available at http://www.klebsch.de/public.key Fingerpri

Re: GRUB passes invalid mem= parameter to Linux kernel on system with 512 MB of physical RAM

2001-08-02 Thread Mario Klebsch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wednesday, 1. August 2001 23:22, Gordon Matzigkeit wrote: > >>>>> Mario Klebsch writes: > > MK> Since linux does not require the mem= parameter anymore, will > the MK> option be reversed some time in the future (renamed t

Re: GRUB passes invalid mem= parameter to Linux kernel on system with 512 MB of physical RAM

2001-08-02 Thread Mario Klebsch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thursday, 2. August 2001 21:02, Derrik Pates wrote: > On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Mario Klebsch wrote: > > > Better yet, is there a way for Grub to detect a newer version of > > > linux, and set the default based on that? > > >

Re: GRUB passes invalid mem= parameter to Linux kernel on system with 512 MB of physical RAM

2001-08-02 Thread Mario Klebsch
inux kernel at all. Ok, please ignore everything, I wrote on this topic. 73, Mario - - - -- Mario Klebsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP-Key available at http://www.klebsch.de/public.key Fingerprint DSS: EE7C DBCC D9C8 5DC1 D4DB 1483 30CE 9FB2 A047 9CE0 Diffie-Hellm

Re: GRUB passes invalid mem= parameter to Linux kernel on system with 512 MB of physical RAM

2001-08-01 Thread Mario Klebsch
x27; command at the > grub> prompt causes this problem to go away. Since linux does not require the mem= parameter anymore, will the option be reversed some time in the future (renamed to -mem-option)? 73, Mario - -- Mario Klebsch [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Some GRUB issues (0.5.96.1)

2001-06-12 Thread Mario Klebsch
hook, which is called by the keyboard interrupt service routine for every keyboard event. This hook either can translate the events or if could put then into its own queue, so the keyboard logic could be implemented outside of this hook. 73, Mario - -- Mario Klebsch

Bug#98785: grub: cant install

2001-05-26 Thread Mario Klebsch
So the error message must be a bug in grub. I had several situations, where grub did not recognize extended partitions. It seems, to get full functionality of grub, the partitions have to be primary partitions. 73, Mario - -- Mario Klebsch [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Time to fork the netboot code?

2001-05-10 Thread Mario Klebsch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thursday, 10. May 2001 21:36, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote: > From: Mario Klebsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I think our situation is very similar to this case. Normal OS drivers > have (maybe a lot of) extra code for us, but they have features > enoug

Re: Time to fork the netboot code?

2001-05-10 Thread Mario Klebsch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thursday, 10. May 2001 15:47, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote: > From: Mario Klebsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Time to fork the netboot code? > Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 09:14:54 +0200 > > > OTOH, tghe drivers for booting have to be

Re: Time to fork the netboot code?

2001-05-10 Thread Mario Klebsch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wednesday, 9. May 2001 21:19, Chip Salzenberg wrote: > According to Mario Klebsch: > > The goal would be to convert the situation from > > the grub people using the drivers of the etherboot people > > to > > the grub and

Re: Time to fork the netboot code?

2001-05-09 Thread Mario Klebsch
ivers of the etherboot people to the grub and etherboot people are using common drivers. 73, Mario - -- Mario Klebsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP-Key available at http://www.klebsch.de/public.key Fingerprint DSS: EE7C DBCC D9C8 5DC1 D4DB 1483 30CE 9FB2 A047

Re: 'more' command?

2001-04-09 Thread Mario Klebsch
than 20 lines of C in the output routine. The command to turn if on and off probably is more complicated than the code itself. 73, Mario - -- Mario Klebsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP-Key available at http://www.klebsch.de/public.key Fingerprint DSS: EE7C DBCC D9

Re: via-rhine driver

2001-03-21 Thread Mario Klebsch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sunday, 11. March 2001 04:46, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote: > From: Mario Klebsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: via-rhine driver > > 2. My via-rhine does not work. I had a look on the source an I > > wonder, wether via-rhine is unde

Re: GRUB +Debian Potato +NT...

2001-03-09 Thread Mario Klebsch
ot NT, you did make the NT-Partition active, to (hd0,2) is not active, anymore. It it is not active, GRUB will not start. :-O Just install it on (hd0), and it will work. root (hd0,2) setup (hd0) 73, Mario - -- Mario Klebsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP-Ke

via-rhine driver

2001-03-07 Thread Mario Klebsch
body to discuss internal problems with. 73, Mario - -- Mario Klebsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP-Key available at http://www.klebsch.de/public.key Fingerprint DSS: EE7C DBCC D9C8 5DC1 D4DB 1483 30CE 9FB2 A047 9CE0 Diffie-Hellman: D447 4ED6 8A10 2C65 C5E5 8B98