help-grub

Hello, We have created a new mailing list specific to support requests: help-grub. From now on, if you need help on how to use GRUB, please post a message to help-grub instead of bug-grub or grub-devel. http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub Okuji ___

GRUB 1.96 is released

I'm happy to announce the release of GRUB 1.96. This is the seventh 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

[bug #18836] ext3 filesystems with large inodes cannot be accessed by grub2 or grub legacy

Update of bug #18836 (project grub): Status:None => Fixed Assigned to:None => okuji Open/Closed:Open => Closed Planned Release:

Re: Bug in GRUB 0.97 (Ubuntu 6.10)

On Friday 09 March 2007 13:30, Andrew Jeffries wrote: > adrian15 wrote: > > Andrew Jeffries escribió: > >> There's a bug in GRUB 0.97 on Intel 965 Chipsets, the DVD drive > >> doesn't work if booting from GRUB from the hard drive in either > >> Windows Vista or Ubuntu Linux. > >> > >> If I replace

GRUB 1.95 is released

I'm happy to announce the release of GRUB 1.95. This is the sixth 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 yo

Re: A20 patch

On Friday 21 July 2006 11:58, Molle Bestefich wrote: > Whom on earth wants to use alpha software as their boot loader? Oh, what a shameless comment. Nobody said such a thing when GRUB was born. If all people were like you, any new technology wouldn't be accepted or developed. Note that nearly al

Re: A20 patch

On Monday 17 July 2006 21:35, Marco Gerards wrote: > The A20 code of GRUB Legacy does not work in all cases, as some of you > already know. For me the most important thing is that it does not > work on my MacBook. Here is a backport from GRUB2's A20 code. The > only change it the calling convent

GRUB 1.94 is released

I'm happy to announce the release of GRUB 1.94. This is the fifth 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 yo

Re: Google's Summer of Code 2006

Hello, As announced here: http://code.google.com/soc/gnu/about.html GNU GRUB has been allowed to accept Jeroen's application for LVM and RAID support. Congratulations, Jeroen! I thank all the people who submitted applications for GRUB. I hope we will have chances to hack GRUB together, whethe

Re: two host environments

On Sunday 21 May 2006 05:41, Noah Misch wrote: > On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 09:23:45PM +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > > This requires two compilers, for the tools and for the standalone binary, > > and similarly two sets of flags for the compilers. As far as I know, > > auto

two host environments

Hello, In the newer version of GRUB, I've beein using autoconf in a tricky way. We aim at building tools which run on an operating system (such as an installer) as well as building binary images/files which run on a boot environment (such as a boot sector). GRUB wants to support that the user c

Re: Google's Summer of Code 2006

This is a reminder. The due date is the 8th day. If you would like to submit/update applications, please hurry up. Most applications require some discussion and rewrite, so we have no time to complete applications if you wait too much. Also, please do not hestiate to contact me (or Hollis) priv

Re: [PATCH] Fix savedefault after menu editing

On Tuesday 02 May 2006 06:52, Pavel Roskin wrote: > 2006-05-02 Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * stage2/stage2.c (run_menu): Fix "savedefault" to only save > positions in the top-level menu. Remember current position when > calling a submenu. Don't recalculate it when boo

Re: [PATCH] Check --boot-drive argument

On Tuesday 02 May 2006 06:29, Pavel Roskin wrote: > grub shell crashes if the argument to --boot-drive exceeds 255. > > > 2006-05-02 Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * grub/main.c (main): Don't allow boot drives exceeding our > limit of 256. Using higher numbers will crash grub.

Re: Google's Summer of Code 2006

The acceptance of students' applications has began, so I've updated the GRUB's SoC page: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-soc.html I added an advice for students in this page. If you are interested, have a look, please. Okuji ___ Bug-grub mail

Google's Summer of Code 2006

Hi all, We participate the Google's Summer of Code 2006 as a part of the GNU Project. If you are interested, please look at the list of our ideas: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-soc.html I will be the main mentor in GRUB, and I expect that Marco will help me mentoring students. Thanks,

Re: [PATCH] Fix typo in multiboot specification

Jeroen! Nice to see you again. :) On Sunday 16 April 2006 16:06, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > I think it's pretty easy to see that the right offsets are 12-28. > > 2006-04-16 Jeroen Dekkers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * docs/multiboot.texi: Fix typo in multiboot header offsets of > the a.out

Re: setup to floppy fail if mke2fs done to dos floppy

On Sunday 19 March 2006 03:31, Marc Desmarais wrote: > You have to first do a low level format of the floppy ( fdformat > /dev/fd0H1440) before doing a high level format, just for GRUB. No. Your GRUB is simply too old. Okuji ___ Bug-grub mailing list

Re: a bug in grub legacy v0.97

On Tuesday 21 March 2006 11:40, Vitaly Fertman wrote: > There is a bug report conserning grub-0.97 and reiser4 support > in grub: > https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=14874 > > I have tested it and found that the problem may occur with other > filesystems as well. > > After some

Re: INT 18h BIOS call

On Wednesday 01 February 2006 00:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Greetings developers; I have sort of a question and feature request. My > question is why GRUB stage1 does not use the BIOS INT 18h call on failure > so that the BIOS knows that the bootstrap has failed and can either try > the next bo

Re: problem with GRUB and my BIOS?

On Tuesday 24 January 2006 00:03, Tony and Robyn Lewis wrote: > Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > >On Saturday 21 January 2006 18:21, Marco Gerards wrote: > >>In that case it is not exported by the BIOS. There is nothing GRUB > >>can do about it... > > > >I don&#

Re: problem with GRUB and my BIOS?

On Saturday 21 January 2006 18:21, Marco Gerards wrote: > 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

Re: help for new call command - yoshinori requested

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. Okuji ___ Bug-grub mailing list Bug-grub@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-

Re: help for new call command - yoshinori requested

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 wouldn't be extended any longer. I'm > > wondering why you want to st

Re: [bug #5562] fsys_ntfs.c bug fix: uninitialized content

On Saturday 07 January 2006 05:23 pm, Gregg C Levine wrote: > Follow-up Comment #7, bug #5562 (project grub): > > Anonymous messages such as this should not be allowed. We should disable > all anonymous postings. Done. Okuji ___ Bug-grub mailing list

Re: help for new call command - yoshinori requested

On Tuesday 10 January 2006 01:14 pm, adrian15 wrote: > Hi Yoshinori (I think you're the only Grub Legacy developer still alive or > not focused completely in grub2 :) ) > > I am trying to develop a new command called CALL in Grub Legacy. You know that GRUB Legacy wouldn't be extended any longer. I

GRUB 1.92 is released

I'm happy to announce the release of GRUB 1.92. This is the third 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 yo

Re: Multiple fallbacks from Cdrom

On Friday 21 October 2005 11:16 am, adrian15 wrote: > I am interested in using multiple fallbacks as described in: > http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Booting-fallback-systems > however I'm not sure if I can use this option from a cdrom or floppy > because I do not know if I need to

Re: simulating dd with grub

On Friday 21 October 2005 11:24 am, adrian15 wrote: > Let's do the following with Linux: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=./blank.img count=1 bs=446 > dd if=./blank.img of=/dev/hda You must not forget the last 2 bytes as well (the signature). > My first instict, my first thought was to do: > > install p /b

GRUB 1.91 is released

I'm happy to announce the release of GRUB 1.91. This is the second 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 you

Re: Adapter for loading GRUB with GRUB.

On Wednesday 28 September 2005 12:39 am, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > On Tuesday 27 September 2005 08:44 pm, Timothy Baldwin wrote: > > The original goal is to support loading GRUB from any Linux or multiboot > > bootloader, so that a OS installation script could install GRUB 2 befor

Re: Adapter for loading GRUB with GRUB.

On Tuesday 27 September 2005 08:44 pm, Timothy Baldwin wrote: > The original goal is to support loading GRUB from any Linux or multiboot > bootloader, so that a OS installation script could install GRUB 2 before > rebooting the computer for main part of the installer. However it needs > code to ena

Re: saved/savedefault working from what version on?

On Monday 26 September 2005 06:49 pm, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > 0.97 from the source, but it still seems to lack that support. Which means > if I have line of "savedefault 0" it won't create a default file with that > entry. I can run grub-set-default but the default file produced will get > ignored by

[bug #14620] no countdown even if timeout is set

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #14620 (project grub): Only if you prove that it is really due to the BIOS. Are you sure that your GRUB installation uses the config file you modified? ___ Reply to this item at:

Re: Grub and watchdog

On Monday 08 August 2005 10:12, Kjeld Flarup Christensen (ST/LMD) wrote: > Now my question is, should such a patch go into the grub source. > Or, is it better to put the watchdog into a kernel module, which then is > loaded by grub. Is this kernel approach doable at all. For the maximum safety, it

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bug#318539: grub: FTBFS: Invalid storage class for function]

On Monday 08 August 2005 04:47, Jason Thomas wrote: > Here is a patch against grub legacy to make it compile with gcc 4.0 do > you think it could be applied to CVS? I think I have already fixed most of them. As for -fwritable-strings, I must say that it was a bad decision in the GCC project, beca

Re: UFS fixes

On Friday 05 August 2005 22:30, Rink Springer wrote: > Would you please consider to merge this back into grub? The code is > BSD-licensed, which is identical to the FFS include files at least. > Cromwell would prefer to remain as close to grub as possible, and I > believe other people could benefit

[bug #13606] GRUB should allow Linux command-line>256 bytes with boot protocol>2.02

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #13606 (project grub): I don't think this is a bug. From THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL: THE KERNEL COMMAND LINE The kernel command line has become an important way for the boot loader to communicate with the kernel. Some of its options are also relevant to the boo

GRUB 1.90 is released

I'm happy to announce the release of GRUB 1.90. This is the first 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 yo

Re: boot.S - source question

On Tuesday 02 August 2005 05:51, Martin Baute wrote: > The thing is, unless I'm missing something, at this > point %si is pointing to the zero byte at the end > of notification_message... so where is %si set to > a reasonable value, which I have missed? Look at the code before that. It calls a BIO

Re: grub can't read large initrd on flash hdc1

Well, as far as I test the same ext2 parameters, it is working well, and just slow. Using a larger block size always has a better performance for big files on any kind of disk, because it decreases random access. Maybe this is the only reason. Usually, compact flash disks are much slower than h

Re: grub can't read large initrd on flash hdc1

On Friday 08 July 2005 01:05, Skahan, Vince wrote: > I took a little peek with dumpe2fs, looks like mke2fs > calculated a 1k block size with the smaller partition, > since there are very few (under 100) files on this partition, > would manually setting the block size increase grub's > read performa

Re: [Info] grub wiki is down again

> we read your messages (2005.06.13 and 2005.07.02) about the grub wiki. > first of all: are you sure are you writing to correct address? Sure. > if yes, please provide us more details about the problem. Just type this in your browser: http://www.autistici.org/grub/ All I get is this: Interna

grub wiki is down again

Hello, The GRUB Wiki is down again. I get 500 Internal Server Error. I do not understand why the server often malfunctions. Is there any technical reason? Is it difficult to make it more reliable? Regards, Okuji ___ Bug-grub mailing list Bug-grub@gn

Re: grub may hang or ignore on bad/modified *.gz

On Wednesday 22 June 2005 16:53, Jan Beulich wrote: > Certainly, that's needed. But it is unacceptable that I had to find out I > need to do this by debugging grub (after having searched for the problem in > the kernel and then in XEN for several hours), because it simply didn't > tell me that it i

Re: grub may hang or ignore on bad/modified *.gz

On Wednesday 22 June 2005 15:16, Jan Beulich wrote: > For plain Linux that's true. For domain 0 of xen, however, this is > different, because the domain 0 kernel is already specified as module (XEN > itself being a multiboot image), and hence initrd needs to be specified as > secondary module (and

Re: grub wishlist for increasing blindfriendly usage

On Wednesday 22 June 2005 12:50, Osvaldo La Rosa wrote: > just a trick, maybe a commented option for future menu.lst templates: > why ot providing the \007 (speaker beep) at the grub boot: prompt? > This sould help people who need such a signal to know that they are at the > prompt at that moment.

Re: grub may hang or ignore on bad/modified *.gz

I don't know which version you use, but the current version of GRUB should not try to decompress initrd. It just loads initrd as it is. Okuji ___ Bug-grub mailing list Bug-grub@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub

Re: pager from menues doesnt work

On Tuesday 21 June 2005 19:04, adrian15 wrote: > I use cat FILE. I know that Grub has an internal pager. > But if you call cat FILE from a menu pager doesn't work (even if you put > pager ON before the cat). This is disabled by intention, because the pager may prevent automatic booting, even when

Re: [PATCH] TCG Trusted Boot support

On Wednesday 01 June 2005 11:28, Seiji Munetoh wrote: (B> This is a patch to support Trusted Boot using a security chip on PC (B> platform. (B (BI am sorry, but our position is against "trusted computing". Please read this (Barticle: (B (Bhttp://www.gnu.org/philosophy/can-you-trust.html (B

Re: Display currently booted/running kernel

On Tuesday 31 May 2005 21:43, Dan Behman wrote: > This isn't necessarily a bug; more of a question to the GRUB experts. Is > there a way to use GRUB to display the currently booted kernel? I know > uname -a displays similar info, but I'd like to determine which kernel > image file was booted and

[bug #12245] /etc/mtab dependancy not noted in documentation.

Update of bug #12245 (project grub): Status:None => Wont Fix Open/Closed:Open => Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #1: The dependency on /et

[bug #13224] Another Broken Link on www.gnu.org/software/grub

Update of bug #13224 (project grub): Status:None => Invalid Open/Closed:Open => Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #1: Just a temporary prob

[bug #12822] menu refuses to appear on serial terminal

Update of bug #12822 (project grub): Status:None => Invalid Open/Closed:Open => Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #1: We cannot accept this

[bug #12516] 'Error 28: Selected item cannot fit into memory' with xen.gz 2.0.5

Update of bug #12516 (project grub): Status:None => Invalid Open/Closed:Open => Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #4: RTFM. __

Re: project manager for GNU GRUB

On Tuesday 24 May 2005 11:15, gxk wrote: > can you tell a little more about stuff to do for PM in this project? Please read this: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grub/2004-04/msg00162.html Thanks, Okuji ___ Bug-grub mailing list Bug-grub@gnu.or

Re: GRUB, NTFS and CyberLink Power Cinema Linux

On Monday 23 May 2005 17:05, Jeroen Janssen wrote: > Anyway, I hope this also means the NTFS code can/will be available in a > future GRUB release sometime. I won't incorporate it until someone sends a clean patch with the ChangeLog entries. > p.s. on a side note, is there any specific reason th

Re: GRUB 0.97 is released

On Tuesday 10 May 2005 00:20, Jason Thomas wrote: > why not? It will stop a lot of future questions! Because there is no way to overwrite files on the server, due to the automatic uploading system. All I can do is to release a new version. I don't want to do it only for this small thing. How is

Re: GRUB 0.97 is released

On Monday 09 May 2005 20:12, Guillermo Gutierrez wrote: > will the binaries be updated to reflect the correct version number? I won't. Okuji ___ Bug-grub mailing list Bug-grub@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub

Re: GRUB 0.97 is released

Hi, On Monday 09 May 2005 15:06, Treutwein Bernhard wrote: > The stage2 of the binary distribution fetched from > ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-0.97-i386-pc.tar.gz > identifies itself as "GNU GRUB version 0.96" and > not 0.97 :-( Oops. The same mistake again. Please don't mind it. It has no

Re: Is there a nofb equivalent for grub menu display?

On Sunday 08 May 2005 05:20, Reshat Sabiq wrote: (B> What i meant is that i have to comment out the following line in (B> grub.conf to be able to see anything grub has to show: (B> #splashimage=(hd0,3)/grub/splash.xpm.gz (B (BWe *do not have* such a splash screen. We *do not use* grub.conf. Ha

GRUB 0.97 is released

I'm happy to announce the release of GRUB 0.97. This is the eighth of our prereleases leading up to GRUB 1.0. We encourage you to try it, as we have done a lot of bugfixes and feature enhancement since the previous release. The source and binary distributions are available from

Re: [PATCH] GRUB, XFS and writable strings == segfault

On Friday 29 April 2005 01:57, Sven Wegener wrote: (B> First we declare usual to contain two constant strings. Then we assign (B> one of them to name and later we (might) try to write to one character (B> of the string. Please find attached a patch against current CVS that (B> transforms usual

[bug #12967] Error 23: Error while parsing number

Update of bug #12967 (project grub): Status:None => Invalid Open/Closed:Open => Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #1: RTFM. Not a bug.

Re: Netbooting - Restricting Nic probing

On Friday 29 April 2005 02:23, Michael Hearn wrote: > Guys - Have trawled through the archives but can't track down any > similar issues - atleast reported against recent versions of grub. > I'll try and be succinct. > I'm netbooting Dell 1650's/2650's/2850's using dhcp/tftp/pxegrub - > pxegrub is

Re: Is there a nofb equivalent for grub menu display?

On Monday 02 May 2005 23:15, Reshat Sabiq wrote: > My question is about the grub splash screen. When it's enabled in this > setup, no menu, in fact nothing, can be seen during boot, although if you > ht space, and then Enter it is equivalent to going to the menu and booting > the default option. I

Re: grub fails to properly sync xfs

On Friday 29 April 2005 23:34, David Everly wrote: (B> Under XFS, sync() does not suffice to force data from the log/journal (B> onto the disk so that the raw device can see it. With XFS the data is (B> only forced into the on-disk journal. Instead, one must freeze to force (B> it to complete

Re: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)

On Sunday 08 May 2005 00:17, Kurt Newman wrote: (B> I've been working on this out for about 1.5 days now. Could anyone lend (B> a helpful hand? (B (BIt is not a bug in GRUB, but in Linux. You'd better to ask Fedora's mailing (Blist, instead. (B (BOkuji (B (B (B__

Re: GRUB Legacy question

On Friday 29 April 2005 22:06, Tom Carpenter wrote: > 1) when Etherboot downloads and runs nbgrub, networking is >configured, but nbgrub just loops, printing the following: > > Address: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx > Netmask: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx > Server: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx > Gateway: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx > TFTP error

Re: Grub Failure when HDD descriptor changes

On Wednesday 23 March 2005 10:46 am, Molle Bestefich wrote: > * lib/device.c (get_drive_geometry): > Shuffle BLKGETSIZE and HD_GETGEO so that a correct sector count can > be retrieved for device-mapper devices in the stage2 simulator. You should be more explicit. Instead of saying just "shuffle",

Re: Grub Failure when HDD descriptor changes

On Tuesday 22 March 2005 10:19 pm, Molle Bestefich wrote: > > ChangeLog, please. > > Any preferred length, formatting, ?.. Please check the GNU Coding Standard. You can also get some ideas from the existing ChangeLog entries. Okuji ___ Bug-grub maili

Re: Grub Failure when HDD descriptor changes

On Tuesday 22 March 2005 09:41 pm, Molle Bestefich wrote: (B> Incidentally, could you perhaps offer your comments on the attached patch? (B (BChangeLog, please. (B (B> One thing I can think of myself is to actually calculate the "correct" (B> cylinder count with 63 secs/track and 255 heads, i

Re: Grub Failure when HDD descriptor changes

On Tuesday 22 March 2005 09:35 pm, Molle Bestefich wrote: > Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > > As grub-install says, it is just a guess. In reality, it works in 99.99% > > machines. > > If this was Japan, I'd probably have my head chopped of for being > insolent by now

Re: Grub Failure when HDD descriptor changes

On Tuesday 22 March 2005 07:41 pm, Molle Bestefich wrote: > You could, at boot-up, calculate a md5 hash based on the first sector > of every disk. If there's a duplicate hash, load the last sector of > every disk also and calculate the md5 based on both. If there's still > duplicates, add one mor

Re: Grub Failure when HDD descriptor changes

On Tuesday 22 March 2005 07:31 pm, Molle Bestefich wrote: > As you've made clear, GRUB can't possibly know which Linux device maps > to which BIOS device. I'd like to know why it attempts to do so > anyway, and what the (insane, I guess :-)) algorithm it uses is? Read the source code. > Currentl

[bugs #12018] grub-0.96. savedefault feature is not working for me.

Follow-up Comment #11, bugs #12018 (project grub): I have fixed it right now. Thanks. Please write ChangeLog next time. Usually I do not apply any patch if ChangeLog is not written. Okuji ___ Reply to this item at:

Re: grub dumps core

On Monday 07 March 2005 07:08 pm, pjones wrote: (B> Here goes. This is my 0.95 patch forward-ported to current CVS. If (B> anybody has *added* anything to cvs since 0.95 (i.e. savedefault), I (B> haven't even looked at it, so it may or may not still need work. (B (BDoes anybody confirm that

Re: [dhcwg] RFC 3942 notice: GNU GRUB, DHCP option 150

On Saturday 12 March 2005 06:38 pm, Ted Lemon wrote: > > I would like to notify that GNU GRUB uses the DHCP option 150, > > according to > > RFC 3942. > > Thanks for the notification. Would you guys be interested in fixing > this so that GRUB uses a vendor-encapsulated option, or do you think > t

Re: grub-md5-crypt password length

On Monday 14 March 2005 08:56 pm, Roderick A. Anderson wrote: > While doing some testing I noticed that the grub-md5-crypt script will not > process a password of more than 31 characters properly. At 32 characters > the encrypted password comes back blank and if more that 32 characters it > just p

RFC 3942 notice: GNU GRUB, DHCP option 150

Hello, I would like to notify that GNU GRUB uses the DHCP option 150, according to RFC 3942. GNU GRUB Configuration Path This specifies the path-name that contains a configuration for GNU GRUB. The code for this option is 150. Its minimum length is 1. Code LenConfiguration Pathname

Re: [bugs #12018] grub-0.96. savedefault feature is not working for me.

On Monday 07 March 2005 02:29 pm, Treutwein Bernhard wrote: > My experimentation some time ago (including a quick > browse in the source of stage2.c) yielded that the file > default must be at least 10 chars long and should contain > the numeric ascii equivalent of the default entry to boot. I don

Re: Patch Submission Policy

On Monday 28 February 2005 21:12, Roland McGrath wrote: > It's your policy that is questionable. The new GRUB is not usable in > production, yet the old GRUB is frozen too early. If you don't like, help the legwork. Okuji ___ Bug-grub mailing list Bu

Patch Submission Policy

[I send this to bug-hurd as well, since I saw an inadequqte post by Roland on bug-hurd.] Hello, Since our (current) patch submission policy was described only on a mailing list, I wrote an article on the GRUB Wiki: http://www.autistici.org/grub/moin.cgi/GrubLegacyPatchSubmission?action=show O

[bugs #11808] GRUB 0.96 Compilation Error

Update of bugs #11808 (project grub): Status:None => Fixed Open/Closed:Open => Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #7: Thank you very much

[bugs #11808] GRUB 0.96 Compilation Error

Follow-up Comment #5, bugs #11808 (project grub): I checked in another patch. BTW, please use "make -k" next time to detect all errors. Okuji ___ This item URL is: ___

[bugs #11808] GRUB 0.96 Compilation Error

Follow-up Comment #3, bugs #11808 (project grub): I checked in my own patch. If this works for you, I will close this bug. ___ This item URL is:

[bugs #11808] GRUB 0.96 Compilation Error

Update of bugs #11808 (project grub): Priority: 5 - Normal => 3 - Low Item Group: Action Request => Software Error ___ Follow-up Comment #1: I have checked in a

[bugs #11788] make check: "ufs2_stage1_5 is too big (7304 > 7168)."

Update of bugs #11788 (project grub): Status:None => Invalid Open/Closed:Open => Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #1: It is a bug in gcc.

GRUB 0.96 is released

I'm happy to announce the release of GRUB 0.96. This is the seventh of our prereleases leading up to GRUB 1.0. We encourage you to try it, as we have done a lot of bugfixes and feature enhancement since the previous release. The source and binary distributions are available from

Re: [agx@debian.org: Bug#290098: grub: doesn't work with cciss and others]

Jason, do not forget that you can apply patches yourself, if there is no copyright issue obviously. The patch looks very short, so you can integrate it if you think it's ok. Okuji ___ Bug-grub mailing list Bug-grub@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailma

[bugs #11308] cdrom read errors on big files (patch included)

This mail is an automated notification from the bugs tracker of the project: GNU GRUB. /**/ [bugs #11308] Latest Modifications: Changes by: Yoshinori K. Okuji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 'Date:

[bugs #11312] grub segfaults on (internal) nested function calls on x86_64

This mail is an automated notification from the bugs tracker of the project: GNU GRUB. /**/ [bugs #11312] Latest Modifications: Changes by: Yoshinori K. Okuji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 'Date:

Re: Should setup be reverted always to pass 'd' to install?

On Thursday 02 December 2004 22:15, Colin Watson wrote: > I used the attached patch (or something very similar; I don't have > the exact code any more, but I remember it quite well). No patch is attached... > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grub/2002-12/msg00029.html > suggests that this te

Re: Should setup be reverted always to pass 'd' to install?

On Tuesday 30 November 2004 21:54, Colin Watson wrote: > I work on the Ubuntu distribution of GNU/Linux. We have a bug report > (https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3007) with two different > instances of BIOSes that pass the wrong boot drive in DL to GRUB's > Stage 1. Our package is based

Re: USB-Key as floppy

On Monday 29 November 2004 14:49, Amir Shalem wrote: (B> an hack idea I had (not sure if it will really work): (B> go over all places in stage2 sources who handle floppy (& 0x80 part) (B> and tell it its really an harddisk. (B> (B> is it possible or not ? (B (BIt really depends on your BIOS.

Re: next release

On Tuesday 16 November 2004 17:29, Feng Shuo wrote: > Sorry for my absence, I am too busy these weeks my current work > in ICT eats up all my spare time After all, I need it to get > money :(. It is the life, unfortunately. ;) > If it doesn't matter, please wait me to the end of this we

Re: next release

On Saturday 13 November 2004 11:53, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: > Any intentions to integrate the "new etherboot drivers" patch? > Quite a lot of new hardware needs it. It is not my job. Please ask Feng. Okuji ___ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

next release

Hello, I'm thinking about publishing next version. This version should be considered a completely feature-frozen release. Even though there are some non-fixed issues (such as full Multiboot-compliance), some people claim that GRUB should have a stable release (i.e. version 1.0). What is your o

grub wiki acl

I asked Marco Parrone to set up a basic ACL in the GRUB Wiki. He is the site maintainer of autistici.org. So you must now make your own user to edit pages. This is very easy and instant. This change is mainly for blocking spams. Okuji ___ Bug-grub m

Re: Bug in the Multiboot specification example OS

On Sunday 10 October 2004 18:30, Richard Braun wrote: (B> As I'm developing a multiboot compliant boot loader for a home (B> project, (B (BI have interest on your project. Would you like to introduce your (Bproject here? (B (BOkuji (B (B (B___

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