Re: [Bug-grub] [PATCH] Allow appending kernel options directly from the main menu

2002-10-04 Thread Matt Wilson
On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 07:52:13AM +1000, Jason Thomas wrote: if this is almost the same as 'e' than why all the duplication? It isn't. To change the kernel command line using 'e': highlight the boot entry you want to change. press 'e' arrow down to the kernel line, press 'e' add what you

Re: Debugging stage1 (was GRUB loops, printing GRUB)

2001-09-17 Thread Matt Wilson
What brand BIOS do you have? What I've done to debug stage1 and stage2 is to add simple 1 char output around places I think things are going wrong. Of course having an In-target probe or in-circuit emulator helps debug these things much easier. Cheers, Matt On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at

Re: Debugging stage1 (was GRUB loops, printing GRUB)

2001-09-17 Thread Matt Wilson
Even so, I've run into several problems with AMI BIOS. What SCSI card do you have? Most likely what's happening is that the stack is becoming corrupted and when you return from an interrupt call you're jumping to a point other than where you called the INT 13 from. Cheers, Matt On Mon, Sep

Re: [Bug-grub] [PATCH] Re: [wsl@nl.linux.org: Bug#110793: should not secretly pass options to the kernel]

2001-09-04 Thread Matt Wilson
On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 02:33:03PM +1000, Jason Thomas wrote: so this is only needed on older kernels? and isn't this already configurable using ./configure, my main concern was how many systems will I break if I change it in the debian package? Oh, right. Use --disable-auto-linux-mem-opt

Re: [Bug-grub] [PATCH] Re: [wsl@nl.linux.org: Bug#110793: should not secretly pass options to the kernel]

2001-09-02 Thread Matt Wilson
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 10:40:45PM -0600, Derrik Pates wrote: Why is it hurting anything? I was having a problem with Grub getting a 0-length mem range at 4 GB passed from the BIOS, but I have submitted a patch to the maintainers (now in CVS) to prevent that situation. It's probably not the

Re: GRUB hard drive load failures on AMI BIOS [Was: Re: GRUB loading stage1.5 and crash]

2001-08-31 Thread Matt Wilson
:10PM -0400, Matt Wilson wrote: Marc, I can confirm that another machine with an AMI BIOS core is having exactly the same problem you're having. Placing GRUB totally on a floppy works; you can boot GRUB on the floppy, access the disks including the stage1.5 image that fails to load when start.S

GRUB hard drive load failures on AMI BIOS [Was: Re: GRUB loading stage1.5 and crash]

2001-08-30 Thread Matt Wilson
Marc, I can confirm that another machine with an AMI BIOS core is having exactly the same problem you're having. Placing GRUB totally on a floppy works; you can boot GRUB on the floppy, access the disks including the stage1.5 image that fails to load when start.S tries to load it when booting