Re: grub access

2003-11-09 Thread Thierry Laronde
have apparently (hard disks 1, 2 and 3) matches the BIOS order. At a guess I suggest to try to boot from (hd2), meaning that perhaps 1 and 3 are primaries and leasted before the slaves, that is that the second disk has becomed the third one (for GRUB). At least you can try. Cheers, -- Thierry

Re: grub access

2003-11-09 Thread Thierry Laronde
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 06:04:50PM +0100, Thierry Laronde wrote: At a guess I suggest to try to boot from (hd2), meaning that perhaps 1 and 3 are primaries and leasted before the slaves, that is that the second disk has becomed the third one (for GRUB). forget what I say about primaries

Re: grub access

2003-11-09 Thread Thierry Laronde
If you have access to GRUB (it boots I think) can you enter the command line (typing `c') and then typing: root ( follow by a press of the TAB key should list all the devices GRUB sees. If you have the 3 disks hd0 to hd2 everything will be fine. Can you give the result? -- Thierry Laronde

Re: Booting a CD using grub-0.93

2003-10-14 Thread Thierry Laronde
- (0x07 + 1)) that is x % 0x78. * We verify that this doesn't move the others since 0x00-0x07 and * 0x10 are 0x78. * So the resulting formula : */ #define bios2grub_id(x) (((x) % 0xEF) % 0x78) =end update -- Thierry Laronde (Alceste) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF

Re: GRUB isn't working for bootable CD

2003-10-08 Thread Thierry Laronde
, the emulation is a CHS one built on an LBA accessed device : by switching to LBA, GRUB accesses the raw CD (the iso fs) and not the boot image. Hence it fails to access stage2. Solution : keep using GRUB 0.92 + the patches or port the patches to 0.93. Cheers, -- Thierry Laronde (Alceste) [EMAIL

Re: Don`t understand error message

2003-10-04 Thread Thierry Laronde
: Slightly modified version of Piet Hein's poem cited by D.E. Knuth in The Errors of TeX (1989). -- Thierry Laronde (Alceste) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C ___ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL

Re: Don`t understand error message

2003-10-03 Thread Thierry Laronde
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 04:35:58PM +, Robert Millan wrote: On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 10:03:11PM +0200, Thierry Laronde wrote: Since I'm using mainly *BSD systems these days I'm perhaps not up to date with Linux, Uhm.. that's interesting. Have you played with GRUB on *BSD

Re: Don`t understand error message

2003-10-02 Thread Thierry Laronde
don't use grub-install neither...). Cheers, -- Thierry Laronde (Alceste) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C ___ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub

Re: Compact flash and 'GRUB GRUB'

2003-09-14 Thread Thierry Laronde
I guess: to obtain the BIOS id of the device you need LBA, but you need to access after that with CHS. I think that without the force LBA flag, only the traditionnal/old int13 related to CHS was used and the device was not accessible this way. This is just a guess. Cheers, -- Thierry Laronde

Re: mkbimage grub geometry -w

2003-08-26 Thread Thierry Laronde
think you need the old version of mkbimage, the new has been tested I think by Robert against 0.93 (I have only tested against 0.92 and the new mkbimage in GRUB CVS is only for the future maintenance of the script; keep in sync 0.92+patches+old mkbimage). -- Thierry Laronde (Alceste) [EMAIL PROTECTED

`mkbimage' added to GRUB

2003-08-09 Thread Thierry Laronde
) be allowed to contribute more closely. Thanks. -- Thierry Laronde (Alceste) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C ___ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub

Re: [synthesis] forwarded message from Thierry Laronde

2003-07-28 Thread Thierry Laronde
) but declared as the 4th could be a partitionning tool that has extended the 4th partition to recover the 3 first ones. But if this situation (one partition begining at the beginning but put in the 4th slot) I still consider this is not normal. \the end. -- Thierry Laronde [EMAIL PROTECTED] Site

Re: windows 2000 could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: windows 2000 root/system32/ntoskrnl.exe

2003-07-27 Thread Thierry Laronde
to not play at all, that is : don't buy their products! Cheers, -- Thierry Laronde [EMAIL PROTECTED] Site Debian Francophone (aka SDF) : http://www.debian-france.org/ ___ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug

Re: Bug#185770: grub: incompatible with Windows 2000 NTFS wheninstalled on MBR

2003-03-24 Thread Thierry Laronde
without). Cheers, -- Thierry Laronde (Alceste) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C ___ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub

Re: Bug#185770: grub: incompatible with Windows 2000 NTFSwheninstalled on MBR

2003-03-24 Thread Thierry Laronde
supplied is for the location in memory (the name is confusing). The physical location is hard coded. Just get rid of *stage1_5. Cheers, -- Thierry Laronde (Alceste) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C

Re: Converting from lilo to grub

2002-12-17 Thread Thierry Laronde
=/dev/hdb). -- Thierry Laronde (Alceste) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C ___ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub

Re: Grub and my second hard disk

2002-12-08 Thread Thierry Laronde
). This is not a bug, this is a BIOS feature. Cheers, -- Thierry Laronde (Alceste) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C ___ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub

Re: mkbimage

2002-10-25 Thread Thierry Laronde
, -- Thierry Laronde (Alceste) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C ___ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub

Re: netboot with DFE-530ct

2002-06-03 Thread Thierry Laronde
the splashscreen, so this is out of cause. But your guess about memory usage is interesting since I always compile my GRUB versions with a _lot_ of nic drivers (PCI ones). I will try to give it a look this week-end. Thanks for the infos! -- Thierry Laronde (Alceste) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key

Re: Problems with Compaq DL380G2 running Redhat 7.2

2002-05-31 Thread Thierry Laronde
play (add options) to the grub.conf but don't reinstall GRUB: there is no need to do so. In order to have a successfull new kernel booting you need only to find the correct parameters to pass to that kernel. GRUB, indeed, will just do what you tell it to do in the grub.conf ;) Cheers, -- Thierry

Re: netboot with DFE-530ct

2002-05-31 Thread Thierry Laronde
I will try... later. Hint: would you mind trying the following in the menu: root (nd) kernel /vmlinuz-2.2.20 root=/dev/nfs and tell if segregating the device (root) from the filename works under the menu? Cheers, -- Thierry Laronde (Alceste) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF

Re: Problems with Compaq DL380G2 running Redhat 7.2

2002-05-30 Thread Thierry Laronde
that it is working) with the correct bootparameters will solve the problem. But questions 1 and 2 need to be clarified. Cheers, -- Thierry Laronde (Alceste) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C ___ Bug

Re: help with Read Error?

2002-05-30 Thread Thierry Laronde
it and made sure the line was terminated correctly. Now, when the box boots, the BIOS and SCSI card init correctly. But I get the following at the end, and then the box hangs... GRUB Loading Phase2...Read Error Are the INT13 SCSI extensions disable in your BIOS? Cheers, -- Thierry Laronde

Re: help with Read Error?

2002-05-30 Thread Thierry Laronde
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 11:16:15AM -0700, Weber, Aaron wrote: I believe they are ENABLED...should I change this? Yes, at least try this first: disable the INT13h SCSI extensions and please report if this works. Cheers, -- Thierry Laronde (Alceste) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906

Re: Possible to boot NetBSD with GRUB?

2002-05-15 Thread Thierry Laronde
even if I have no URL at hand. Cheers, -- Thierry Laronde (Alceste) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C ___ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub

Re: Net/Open/FreeBSD support

2002-05-13 Thread Thierry Laronde
. So, sooner or later, I will try to converge, at least for this flavour of *BSD. Cheers, -- Thierry Laronde (Alceste) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C ___ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Installing grub on cdrom

2002-05-06 Thread Thierry Laronde
/mkbimage The more sensible solution for you is to create a El Torito HD image, and to display all the choices via GRUB menu.lst. Cheers, -- Thierry Laronde (Alceste) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C

Re: El Torito, odd floppies 0.92 working patches...

2002-05-04 Thread Thierry Laronde
is not only to have access to working known code: it is also a matter of continuing formation; a place to try and to test what has not been tried. A place to dream a little if this dream is also a working reality... Regards, -- Thierry Laronde (Alceste) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906

Re: El Torito, odd floppies 0.92 working patches...

2002-05-02 Thread Thierry Laronde
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 04:52:12AM +0900, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: Thierry, I have some questions. At Wed, 1 May 2002 19:58:15 +0200, Thierry Laronde wrote: - booting from CDROM Great. - booting from odd floppies format Ditto. - Position independant stage1 (allowing to load

El Torito, odd floppies 0.92 working patches...

2002-05-01 Thread Thierry Laronde
' to regenerate the *.in and so on. I have kept the include/arch-i386 new tree, but restored stage1 and grub (renamed grub-shell in a previous attempt). I think this should be a good compromise: only my new headers are in a new directory. Please test. Thanks, -- Thierry Laronde (Alceste) [EMAIL

Re: Early alpha patches for El Torito etc

2002-04-15 Thread Thierry Laronde
/polish... Regards, -- Thierry Laronde (Alceste) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C ___ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub

Re: Early alpha patches for El Torito etc

2002-04-15 Thread Thierry Laronde
untested ;) Regards, -- Thierry Laronde (Alceste) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C ___ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub

Re: How to create a bootable CDROM.

2002-02-14 Thread Thierry Laronde
, I expect to send everything to Okuji before the end of this month. So if you can wait a bit, there will be no more need for patches ;) Cheers, -- Thierry Laronde (Alceste) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C

Re: Trying to use grub on an HD-image

2001-12-01 Thread Thierry Laronde
BTW). But this is needed on the majority to prevent GRUB from trying to find itself its own way ;) Cheers, -- Thierry Laronde (Alceste) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C ___ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL

Re: providing iso images

2001-12-01 Thread Thierry Laronde
Hello, On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 04:42:43PM +0900, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: At Fri, 30 Nov 2001 20:21:33 +0100, Thierry Laronde wrote: Do you have an idea if your patch will be applied to the official tree? No. The decision belongs to the official maintainers. If you have written

Re: providing iso images

2001-11-30 Thread Thierry Laronde
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 01:59:49PM -0500, Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thierry Laronde) writes: I'm the author of the El Torito (and extended floppy formats) patches (not applied yet to the official CVS) but if you (Robert) are refering to these patches, this allows

Re: Trying to use grub on an HD-image

2001-11-30 Thread Thierry Laronde
(creating a virtual disk bootable by the GRUB). This new version (1.8) seems to work correctly... on other machines too (two success stories ;) that is a bunch of beta test...). Cheers, -- Thierry Laronde (Alceste) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006

Re: providing iso images

2001-11-29 Thread Thierry Laronde
to find the bootable entries. So whatever image in 1.20, 1.44, 2.88 or HD emulation will be fine: no need to install an iso9660 filesystem on them! Cheers, -- Thierry Laronde (Alceste) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C

Re: boot from cdrom with grub

2001-11-17 Thread Thierry Laronde
Hello, On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 04:55:36PM -0200, Pedro Zorzenon Neto wrote: On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 07:37:24PM +0100, Thierry Laronde wrote: On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 04:07:52PM -0200, Pedro Zorzenon Neto wrote: Hi, This is not a bug, it could be classified as a wish

Re: boot from cdrom with grub

2001-11-16 Thread Thierry Laronde
you will need a floppy to boot the cdrom it's simpler to put a whole OS on the floppy to access the CD. Cheers, -- Thierry Laronde (Alceste) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C ___ Bug-grub mailing list

Re: Worse yet Re: Whoops! Re: [PATCH] Another semi-critical one... (was Re: towards 0.91 )

2001-11-07 Thread Thierry Laronde
efficiency of the GRUB shell is not a problem: one doesn't run this 10 times per second ;) - such solution is not a supplementary Linux hack FWIW, -- Thierry Laronde (Alceste) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C

Re: Worse yet Re: Whoops! Re: [PATCH] Another semi-critical one... (was Re: towards 0.91 )

2001-10-31 Thread Thierry Laronde
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 10:50:50AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yoshinori K. Okuji [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Mon, 29 Oct 2001 21:16:50 +0100, Thierry Laronde wrote: My tests were made with 2.2.x... So it's not 2.4.x specific. Really?! That's too bad! I have neither

Re: Worse yet Re: Whoops! Re: [PATCH] Another semi-critical one... (was Re: towards 0.91 )

2001-10-29 Thread Thierry Laronde
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 11:37:51AM +0900, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: At Sun, 28 Oct 2001 13:59:37 +0100, Thierry Laronde wrote: - it's perhaps a problem with the way the GRUB shell handles the devices, but it's clearly a cache problem, and it might be a kernel one. This problem

Re: Worse yet Re: Whoops! Re: [PATCH] Another semi-critical one... (was Re: towards 0.91 )

2001-10-28 Thread Thierry Laronde
the devices, but it's clearly a cache problem, and it might be a kernel one. Cheers, -- Thierry Laronde (Alceste) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C ___ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: grub 0.90 prevents Standby in Windows

2001-10-26 Thread Thierry Laronde
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 05:03:59PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thierry Laronde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As the only thing I've changed was the Installation of Mandrake and grub I cleared the mbr from a Win bootdisk and started the system. After that the standby-option

Re: grub 0.90 prevents Standby in Windows

2001-10-26 Thread Thierry Laronde
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 11:37:26PM +0900, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: At Fri, 26 Oct 2001 12:35:24 +0200, Thierry Laronde wrote: Thanks for the explanations Erich! I think indeed that the `boot' call should put the machine back in the clean state --- for example, with extended floppy

Re: grub 0.90 prevents Standby in Windows

2001-10-26 Thread Thierry Laronde
there in order to be sure that we don't invoke a function twice. Without memory allocation, we will another time increase the size of the binary. -- Thierry Laronde (Alceste) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C

Re: grub 0.90 prevents Standby in Windows

2001-10-25 Thread Thierry Laronde
-version 0.5.96.1 could bring back the standby-mode in Windows. Just a question, since some of us (I for one) don't have Windows, what is the standby-mode in Windows. Something related to APM or ACPI I guess? Cheers, -- Thierry Laronde (Alceste) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95

New version of `mkbimage'

2001-10-24 Thread Thierry Laronde
Hello, A new version of the script allowing the creation of bootable virtual disks, with ext2, minix or fat12 fs and the GRUB (patched) is here: http://corpus.polynum.org/admin/mkbimage Cheers, -- Thierry Laronde (Alceste) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D

Re: GRUB plans...

2001-10-21 Thread Thierry Laronde
, but this is used here for variables used by higher level code supposed/hoped to be portable. Caveats ;) -- Thierry Laronde (Alceste) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C ___ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED

[PATCHES] for CD etc. against present CVS

2001-10-21 Thread Thierry Laronde
I have updated the patches to match the present state of CVS. Please test! Cheers, -- Thierry Laronde (Alceste) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C grub-cd+extfloppy-20011021.diff.gz

Re: GRUB plans...

2001-10-18 Thread Thierry Laronde
--- mimic a web style for stage1.S putting lots of comments, but the interaction between the different pieces of code would be greatly emphasized by literate programming --- probably one of the best ideas of Don Knuth. Just my humble opinion. Cheers, -- Thierry Laronde (Alceste) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key

Re: [PATCHES] CD + extended floppy format

2001-10-15 Thread Thierry Laronde
Hello, On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 02:09:54PM +0900, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: From: Thierry Laronde [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PATCHES] CD + extended floppy format Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 16:24:47 +0200 Here are the patches and the ChangeLog for support of CD booting and extended floppy

Re: [PATCHES] CD + extended floppy format

2001-10-15 Thread Thierry Laronde
On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 12:41:04PM +0200, Thierry Laronde wrote: One problem I found is that the new function disk_changed cannot be so simple. The reason is obvious, if you see the Ralf Brown's Interrupt List. Here's the very part at which you should take a look: I have worked with Ralf

Re: [PATCHES] CD + extended floppy format

2001-10-15 Thread Thierry Laronde
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 04:57:06AM +0800, Rogelio M. Serrano Jr.,,, wrote: Thierry Laronde wrote: On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 12:41:04PM +0200, Thierry Laronde wrote: One problem I found is that the new function disk_changed cannot be so simple. The reason is obvious, if you see the Ralf

[PATCHES] CD + extended floppy format

2001-10-14 Thread Thierry Laronde
Hello, Here are the patches and the ChangeLog for support of CD booting and extended floppy formats use. Everything works OK for me so please test ! A mini-howto and a simple (Linux) script will follow allowing creation of virtual bootable disks with GRUB. Cheers, -- Thierry Laronde [EMAIL

Re: get_diskinfo() patch: fallen through the cracks?

2001-10-14 Thread Thierry Laronde
formats, all the floppy specific stuff is removed. Cheers, -- Thierry Laronde [EMAIL PROTECTED] Site Debian Francophone (aka SDF) : http://www.debian-france.org/ ___ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub

GRUB, CD and extended floppy formats: HOWTO

2001-10-14 Thread Thierry Laronde
the features of GRUB (chaining different menu files, loading different kernels and so on, network boot etc.). Enjoy! [and test...] -- Thierry Laronde [EMAIL PROTECTED] Site Debian Francophone (aka SDF) : http://www.debian-france.org/ #!/bin/sh # MaKe a Bootable IMAGE --- 1.44, 2.88 and El Torito

Re: get_diskinfo() patch: fallen through the cracks?

2001-10-08 Thread Thierry Laronde
]. Are there two branches in GRUB cvs, stable and unstable? Or can we start (?) to flag a version as a stable one, letting new versions for alpha available for tests? Thanks, -- Thierry Laronde [EMAIL PROTECTED] Site Debian Francophone (aka SDF) : http://www.debian-france.org

[ANNOUNCE] GRUB + CD + Extended Floppy Formats

2001-10-01 Thread Thierry Laronde
(a script will be given to build virtual bootable disks). More explanations will be given when the patches will be published (on the GRUB list for the patches; on the 3 lists for the explanations/HOWTO). GRUB is the definitive BOSS! (BOotStrapping oS). Cheers, -- Thierry Laronde [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: tulip not working?

2001-08-30 Thread Thierry Laronde
. But first, try `otulip' and please report success or failure. Cheers, -- Thierry LARONDE, Centre de Ressources Informatiques, Archamps - France http://www.cri74.org/ ___ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub

Re: tulip not working?

2001-08-30 Thread Thierry Laronde
, almost vanilla drivers from *BSD or Linux. Or, as discussed many times, to update to the last etherboot versions (Have you tried the etherboot loader just to see if the card is driven with the last version ?). -- Thierry LARONDE, Centre de Ressources Informatiques, Archamps - France http

Re: Reboot immediatly after I enter any command in grub shell.

2001-07-22 Thread Thierry Laronde
, -- Thierry Laronde [EMAIL PROTECTED] Site Debian Francophone (aka SDF) : http://www.debian-france.org/ ___ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub

Re: Booting Windows from second drive, can't see D: partition

2001-07-22 Thread Thierry Laronde
steps fail ? IIRC, the MS loader is not able to boot from an extended partition, and waits after a C: partition. Try this the `hide' command (see the info manual : `info grub'). Cheers, -- Thierry Laronde [EMAIL PROTECTED] Site Debian Francophone (aka SDF) : http://www.debian-france.org

Re: Re: Reboot immediatly after I enter any command in grub shell.

2001-07-22 Thread Thierry Laronde
On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 04:20:05PM +0800, ÎâÌÎ wrote: I have removed the scsi controller from my pc to test if it would happen. After I removed the scsi controller,the problem is still there. OK. So we must find another track... Cheers, -- Thierry Laronde [EMAIL PROTECTED] Site Debian

Re: cross-platform GRUB

2001-07-10 Thread Thierry Laronde
reply would be nice. This is already the case. Since GRUB is able to read a FAT filesystem, you can install it on a MS-DOS/Windows partition without problem. -- Thierry LARONDE, Centre de Ressources Informatiques, Archamps - France http://www.cri74.org

Re: Filesystem type unknown...Debian

2001-07-08 Thread Thierry Laronde
Hello, On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 01:12:34PM -0700, BoB KoT wrote: #sfdisk -l -x -uS /dev/hde Disk /dev/hde: 59560 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors/track Units = sectors of 512 bytes, counting from 0 Device BootStart End #sectors Id System /dev/hde163

Re: Re: Filesystem type unknown...Debian

2001-06-30 Thread Thierry Laronde
. Unfortunately, since I'm just about to go to the Debian Conference and will spend the whole week there, I will not be able to investigate in the very next days. If someone can give some hints, good. If not, I will try to see during the week following Debian Conf. Cheers, -- Thierry Laronde [EMAIL

Re: Sticky Boot Feature

2001-06-30 Thread Thierry Laronde
is changed. It also assumes stage1 is actually in a known location, IE sector zero, and it might not be. This is already done. See the `savedefault' command, but do retrieve the latest CVS source, since there has been a bug with this command fixed in 0.5.96.x IIRC. -- Thierry Laronde [EMAIL PROTECTED

Gunzip problem

2001-06-29 Thread Thierry Laronde
imagine that will have to use some grub data compressed in the future, GRUB using for its own purpose a kind of cramfs, that is decompressing modules it has to use for such and such functionnality, etc... Suggestions ? -- Thierry LARONDE, Centre de Ressources Informatiques, Archamps - France http

Re: Gunzip problem

2001-06-29 Thread Thierry Laronde
, that is not a task for an OS image. OK (related question then is : does GRUB needs to allow direct handling of the vmlinux, that is bzImage minus the piggy-pack sectors ;). If no one wants to fix this, I will look at it after the Debian Conference. Cheers, -- Thierry LARONDE, Centre de Ressources

Re: Initrd unzipped ?

2001-06-25 Thread Thierry Laronde
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 07:36:04PM +0200, Thierry Laronde wrote: Hello, It seems that when one uses an initrd with Linux, the initrd is unzipped. If I'm right, since Linux is able to unzip the initrd too, and since it first moves the initrd to a ramdisk, this is not practical (one waste

Initrd unzipped ?

2001-06-25 Thread Thierry Laronde
is this done ? Looking at load_initrd I have found nothing explaining the behavior. Or since I use a boot via network (tftp) is there something here explaining that ? TIA -- Thierry LARONDE, Centre de Ressources Informatiques, Archamps - France http://www.cri74.org

Re: Initrd unzipped ?

2001-06-25 Thread Thierry Laronde
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 07:08:19AM +0900, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote: From: Thierry Laronde [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Initrd unzipped ? Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 19:43:19 +0200 OK, found : in disk_io, this is called via grub_read, and one can disable it via configure. Normally, you don't

Re: [PATCH] bootp --with-configfile

2001-06-22 Thread Thierry Laronde
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 09:00:36AM +0900, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote: So I've checked in your patch with some modification, though I haven't updated the documentation yet. Thanks. Do you want me to retrieve your version and propose a patch for the documentation accordingly ? -- Thierry LARONDE

Re: Copy with Grub

2001-06-22 Thread Thierry Laronde
. A cron job or an intervention by hand to edit the right menu.lst for the right hour. GRUB installed everywhere only retrieving its menu via the network --- nothing to change on the client side ; all is defined on the server one. -- Thierry Laronde [EMAIL PROTECTED] Site Debian Francophone (aka SDF

Re: Partitition Table

2001-06-15 Thread Thierry Laronde
a look to the french grub-howto here : http://www.cri74.org/linux/howto/grub-howto.html Cheers, -- Thierry LARONDE, Centre de Ressources Informatiques, Archamps - France http://www.cri74.org/ ___ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Booting by disk

2001-06-14 Thread Thierry Laronde
with grub ? Where can I find a step-by-step receipt to make this operational ? See the info manual. And to see all the configuration options at compile time, make `./configure --help | more'. Cheers, -- Thierry LARONDE, Centre de Ressources Informatiques, Archamps - France http://www.cri74.org

Re: Floppy bug?

2001-06-14 Thread Thierry Laronde
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 09:47:35AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Thierry Laronde wrote: My stage2 is 147040 bytes large, which seems pretty normal. Yes, my mistake. However, the size of stage2 seems to indicate that you have installed a lot of netboot drivers

Re: [Bug-grub] Re: an estimated date of 0.90

2001-06-14 Thread Thierry Laronde
will be screwed. Do you plan to put the current CVS tree elsewhere ? Cheers, -- Thierry LARONDE, Centre de Ressources Informatiques, Archamps - France http://www.cri74.org/ ___ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Pb with SCSI card : solution

2001-06-14 Thread Thierry Laronde
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 08:33:06PM +0900, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote: From: Thierry Laronde [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Pb with SCSI card : solution Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 22:13:56 +0200 Some times ago, I have reported some problems with an old Adaptec SCSI card. using the completion TAB

Re: Some GRUB issues (0.5.96.1)

2001-06-14 Thread Thierry Laronde
-knowledge was not suficcient, to get it working on the first try. For french users too, we lack non-ASCII characters. There are some BIOS extended functions for that, but the tip was just to explain that something working, even if not perfect, is doable with the actual state of the GRUB. -- Thierry

Re: Some GRUB issues (0.5.96.1)

2001-06-13 Thread Thierry Laronde
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Pb with SCSI card : solution

2001-06-13 Thread Thierry Laronde
be of some use for some other ones. Cheers, -- Thierry Laronde [EMAIL PROTECTED] Site Debian Francophone (aka SDF) : http://www.debian-france.org/ ___ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub

Re: Time to fork the netboot code?

2001-05-10 Thread Thierry Laronde
returning to the OS if a timeout is reached, etc... Cheers, -- Thierry LARONDE, Centre de Ressources Informatiques, Archamps - France http://www.cri74.org PingOO, serveur de com sur distribution GNU/Linux: http://www.pingoo.org ___ Bug-grub mailing list

Re: netbooting pxegrub

2001-05-09 Thread Thierry Laronde
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 06:24:03PM -0700, Chip Salzenberg wrote: According to Thierry Laronde: It seems that the support for the C serie is not achieved. Please look to the source in etherboot (where the drivers come from), in order to see if there has been some new versions about

Re: netbooting pxegrub

2001-04-25 Thread Thierry Laronde
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Re: Linux on Alpha

2001-04-25 Thread Thierry Laronde
? Cheers, -- Thierry LARONDE, Centre de Ressources Informatiques, Archamps - France http://www.cri74.org PingOO, serveur de com sur distribution GNU/Linux: http://www.pingoo.org ___ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman

Re: Booting from CD

2001-04-25 Thread Thierry Laronde
will not be able to access files on the CD via GRUB. This is not an impossibility, this is only because no one has provided patches yet. Cheers, -- Thierry LARONDE, Centre de Ressources Informatiques, Archamps - France http://www.cri74.org PingOO, serveur de com sur distribution GNU/Linux: http

Re: FWD: Re: Booting from CD

2001-04-25 Thread Thierry Laronde
to look for an item in the TODO list and spend time... looking for time to do it actually. This will probably be done sooner or later. But if you, or someone, can provide patches for, say, support of iso9660 fs, the sooner might happen sooner ;) Cheers, -- Thierry Laronde [EMAIL PROTECTED] Site

Re: netbooting pxegrub

2001-04-24 Thread Thierry Laronde
to grub, but seems to fail. Trying to give a configfile in grubs shell: configfile (nb)/cl01/grub.cfg Network Device - nd A+ -- Thierry LARONDE, Centre de Ressources Informatiques, Archamps - France http://www.cri74.org PingOO, serveur de com sur distribution GNU/Linux: http

Re: netbooting pxegrub

2001-04-24 Thread Thierry Laronde
but not extensively. So the card is more or less supported. Please search the archives of the mailing list, I do not remember precisely but there have been some threads about the network drivers. Cheers, -- Thierry LARONDE, Centre de Ressources Informatiques, Archamps - France http

Anyone having problems with Adaptec AIC7XXX SCSI ?

2001-04-20 Thread Thierry Laronde
s the last one. As anyone some clue ? I imagine that the BIOS instructions downloaded from the controller are putting interrupts to replace the classical BIOS ones, and there might be problem. But this is just an assumption. Has anyone ever had the very same kind of problem ? Any clue ? TIA -

Re: 'more' command?

2001-04-09 Thread Thierry Laronde
the future, but this is not urgent ;) Regards, -- Thierry LARONDE, Centre de Ressources Informatiques, Archamps - France http://www.cri74.org PingOO, serveur de com sur distribution GNU/Linux: http://www.pingoo.org ___ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTE

Re: 'more' command?

2001-04-09 Thread Thierry Laronde
. Implementing `more' is not "hard". It is just that at the moment there are other priorities (to reach 1.0), and that it's perhaps not a good idea _now_ to keep adding commands not directly linked to bootstrapping. But YMMV. -- Thierry LARONDE [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10, rue du Bel Air, 74000 ANNECY - F

Re: Can't boot with 550K of memory

2001-03-08 Thread Thierry Laronde
in low mem. Modifying boot.c in this occurrence won't help. GRUB is OK with a vanilla bzImage (you can make a vanilla bzImage and put it on your server ; this will be OK for the GRUB). Cheers, -- Thierry LARONDE, Centre de Ressources Informatiques, Archamps - France http://www.cri74.org PingOO,

Re: Can't boot with 550K of memory

2001-03-08 Thread Thierry Laronde
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 06:02:55PM +0100, Jochen Hoenicke wrote: On Mar 8, Thierry Laronde wrote: On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 03:29:00PM +0100, Krzysztof Leszczynski wrote: Hi, Hello, I'm sorry if this is a FAQ but I browsed the whole 4MB bug-grub.mbox and didn't find any answer

Re: CVS access

2001-03-07 Thread Thierry Laronde
ub cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs logout HTH -- Thierry LARONDE, Centre de Ressources Informatiques, Archamps - France http://www.cri74.org PingOO, serveur de com sur distribution GNU/Linux: http://www.pingoo.org ___ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL

[PATCH] bootp --with-configfile

2001-03-06 Thread Thierry Laronde
added prototype for configfile_func * docs/grub.texi (netboot): added explanations about this Regards, -- Thierry LARONDE, Centre de Ressources Informatiques, Archamps - France http://www.cri74.org PingOO, serveur de com sur distribution GNU/Linux: http://www.pingoo.org diff

Re: EZ-Drive weirdness

2001-03-05 Thread Thierry Laronde
t; command (difficult syntax) instead of setup. Do not embed stage1_5. FWIW, if one removes the *stage1_5 from the grub root partition (/boot/grub) there is no danger that GRUB embeds anything, and one can still use `setup'. HTH -- Thierry LARONDE, Centre de Ressources Informatiques, Archamp

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