I have a dual-boot system with grub as selection application. This setup
does not work to select the OS of choice, because the Bluetooth keyboard is
not (yet) paired, and therefore I cannot use the cursor keys.
1. Is it eventually possible to do this with grub?
The device has a touch screen. Alas,
I thought my upgrade to natty was successful: It had gone through
without problem.
Then, after reboot, I decided to remove the old kernels with
sudo apt-get remove --purge
, as I had done over the last years.
Only this time, at reboot, the system looked totally broken, it had like
modprobe
BELLANGER Pierre-Gilles wrote:
Verifying DMI Pool Data...
Boot from CD:
Boot from CD:
Grub Loading stage 1.5
Grub Loading,please wait...
Error 17
C'est le message que j'ai quand je démarre sur CD.En voulant mettre
UBUNTU 8.04 sur WINDOWS j'ai écrasé mon installation!!
No, you haven't.
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Hanno Böck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As modern computers don't have serial ports any more (and today I had to
notice that this is also true for servers), I was looking if it's possible to
have a serial console over usb.
Yes. No. No.
Yes, it is true, PCs
maxim wexler wrote:
Please go to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list and look
for the recent thread 'grub hell'.
No one seems to know what the problem is.
I can't seem to post there.
Though I have no solution as of yet, a few things are clear:
1. Further up he writes, he can't install grub on
Peter Wood wrote:
Apparantly there is a patch for this problem (see 539) but I
think I will trade this new keyboard in for a PS2 one because I don't feel
like downloading code from CVS or messing around with my boot loader. Perhaps
if the patch works it should be commited? This bug should
Roger Binns wrote:
That is just the same mechanism as labels. Note however that you still
need a bootloader that can load the operating system kernel that has the
ZFS drivers.
Except, they can duplicate. But no need to quarrel here !
In the end, a DHCP-like system might evolve; scanning
Roger Binns wrote:
I didn't actually want to use a different (although enhanced) bootloader
:-) And I'd much rather use labels than sentinel files.
This is going to be a big deal for Linux real soon. The pata drivers
are now all handled by the scsi subsystem which just numbers disks in
Olle Bergkvist wrote:
What I'd do, is booting Knoppix, check if that partition shows as
potential mount on the desktop (hda1, eventually). If not, I'd do
fdisk /dev/hda (or whatever it is, probably hda or sda). And I'd do
an 'su' on the terminal as well, before.
Then we can see what your disk
Olle Bergkvist wrote:
If you know any good file system repairing programs, or are able to
program one yourself, please tell me.
A good one ? I dunno. I surely booted KNOPPIX.
Just last week I could repair by booting to it and copy ntldr and
ntdetect.com to a system that got stuck at that
So, when I root (hd0,1,a) followed by chainloader +1, it boots to
OpenBSD splendidly.
But root (hd0,0) [ext2 filesystem], makeactive, kernel vmliuz--- ro
root=/dev/sda6, initrd ..., boot
dies with pivot_root ... cannot open /dev/console ... Kernel panic.
Yes, /dev/sda6 is '/'
What is it that I
Before installing grub, I always - better safe than sorry - try to
boot the OSes from the prompt.
Here I have a SATA disc:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 37 297171 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 * 381254 9775552+
Ken Brooks wrote:
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Creating-a-GRUB-boot-floppy
tells this story:
# cd /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc
# dd if=stage1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
# dd if=stage2 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 seek=1
153+1 records
Albert Gerritsen wrote:
Follow-up Comment #1, bug #15120 (project grub):
I have the same problem with my gentoo installation (same grub version). The
problem can be solved by removing the splashimage entry from your grub.conf
file. I am pretty sure i pointed to the correct location for the
Paul Wight wrote:
Please excuse me for being not very knowledgeable about this, but the Grub Loader is almost invisible on my laptop.
[...]
I thought that perhaps altering the colours in menu.lst might be a way to fix
it.
And, did you try ?
Uwe
Michael Wardle wrote:
Details:
In Ubuntu, the default GRUB configuration has a splashimage of a mainly black
XPM image and no color setting.
Using this configuration, the currently selected item shows only a white
cursor at the end of the line, rather than the entire line in inverse video.
, remove the later one and paste it on top.
I am sure everyone can agree here.
Thanks for looking into it,
Uwe
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 11:30:54AM +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote:
Sorry, guys, for a new subject on a topic mentioned twice before:
I had reported about a messed up display; no grub menu
Sorry, guys, for a new subject on a topic mentioned twice before:
I had reported about a messed up display; no grub menu showing; etc
about a year ago.
Now I have the culprit: It is the kernel updater of grub; but eventually
only on Debian ? And only when you use a splashscreen ?
Here is the
Jason Thomas wrote:
It's most probably the splashimage support (graphical background image)
That I did not want to add to the debian package. It is trying to load
the image from a specific location which does not contain the image and
it is being corrupted.
Sounds almost reasonable.
Except that in
Uwe Dippel wrote:
Q.: Should I simply comment out the splash screen in menu.lst to see
how it is behaving or are you already @ work on something else ?
How can I help you getting this thing done ?
The worst case is the original one, because I cannot select the OS at
boot.
Me stupid; I could have
I cite myself from Nov-23-2004:
Confirmed here. I cannot reinstall grub (okay, I can, from grub-floppy;
and it tells me 'success'. But when I reboot, the grub menu doesn't come
up; but the kernel is loaded immediately.)
I also notice that the screen is almost unreadable; the characters
completely
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 23:30:08 +0100, Bruno Boettcher wrote:
hmmm was just wondering, have one machine down, completely due to the
malfunction of grub
Confirmed here. I cannot reinstall grub (okay, I can, from grub-floppy;
and it tells me 'success'. But when I reboot, the grub menu doesn't
Haines Brown wrote:
Well, I've read the FM a number of times, and did so again carefully
today. It still leaves unanswered questions.
I concede with pleasure you did ... .
The install and setup commands for creating a boot floppy look for a
/boot/grub/menu.lst. But no such menu.lst gets
Haines Brown wrote:
Then came a econd problem with floppies. When I insert a vfat
unmounted floppy and do:
# cd /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc
# dd if=stage1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
# dd if=stage2 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 seek=1
153+1
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hello. i have come to play with grub a bit and i am really excited about
it. however, i wonder if there is any function for rebooting in case of
kernel panic and booting a different entry in the menu (something
similar to what lilo can do: boot once + reboot on panic..)
Cyril Dupuit Add to Address Book wrote:
Hello,
I use Mandrake 10 distribution and bash like Shell. Grub is installed,
but I am not able to launch it. Could you help me please.
Ben, alors,
I'm a bit dumb, so I don't understand 'launch'.
Personally, I never ever launch it.
My trusted medium is a
David Horton Add to Address Book wrote:
I have one minor suggestion for improvement. I think it would be a
good idea to change the name of the default configuration file to
something other than menu.lst.
You're right. I came from RedHat to Debian and found a new world.
(RedHat does call it
On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 19:40, Andreas Jung wrote:
Hi,
I was wondering if any boot manager for Linux has the following option:
* Boot an alternative system if n reboots already happend.
Sorry, no answer. But it seems this would be a great asset. I'd like to
follow up on that.
By the way,
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