Yoshinori Okuji [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
--- Pixel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
notice that our grub is *not* heavily modified.
The script grub-install has been quite modified, right?
well, the minimum fixes to take into account the fact that we install
grub files directly in /boot/grub
Yoshinori Okuji [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
--- steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have an issue with the last RC release of mandrake (with their rescue
mode), I got this:
/dev/ram3 doesn't have any corresponding BIOS drive
I think, this should be hidden (maybe it is a grub problem?)
steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have an issue with the last RC release of mandrake (with their rescue mode),
I got this:
/dev/ram3 doesn't have any corresponding BIOS drive
I think, this should be hidden (maybe it is a grub problem?)
can you give the menu.lst ?
Brett Russ [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Searching the archives I found a (old) message thread discussing how best to
determine that GRUB (and not LILO) is installed on the system:
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grub/2001-08/msg00062.html
for mandrake, i added a patch to have GRUB written
RD Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Does anyone know how to safely rewrite MBRs *and* PBRs on linux drives and
partitions using *LINUX* tools? Apart from confusing and ambiguous
documentation, the problem of removing grub seems to be the number #1 complaint
from grub users.
extipl [1]
Mario Klebsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi!
On Saturday, 8. December 2001 21:54, Rudy Dobutovich wrote:
Has anyone successfully used GRUB with XFS?
My girlfriend has installed mandrake Linux on her notebook and she uses
XFS for her filesystem. The system boots using grub. However,
rebootin as an usage example:
http://www.mandrakelinux.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/soft/initscripts/mandrake/loader/rebootin?rev=1content-type=text/plain
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Jeremy Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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missing the easy way to check and tell if GRUB is being used as the boot
loader?
well, we're using:
offset magic offset magic
[ 'grub', 0, \xEBG, 0x17d, stage1 \0 ],
[ 'grub', 0, \xEBH, 0x17e, stage1 \0 ],
[ 'grub', 0,
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"b" to boot the right one ( windows or linux ).
Is it a bug in GRUB or is it my keyboard or my settings that are not right?
by any change, are you using mandrake :pp ?
in that case, see https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/dimension/cgi-bin/show_bug.cg
in the BIOS did help. On some boxes, no way :-(
ftp://ftp.mandrakesoft.com/pub/pixel/grub-0.5.95-fixbiosbug-nbsectors.patch.bz2
ean things up and start the reinstallation process again but how
do I uninstall GRUB. It must be possible.
who don't need to uninstall it to reinstall again!
If you have windows, and want it to boot straight, the typical solution is to
use "fdisk /mbr" under windows.
cu Pixel.
"Simon Canning" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I cannot seem to change the default boot regardless of what I try in linux
to do so.
I am using mandrake 7.1 and their is no reference anywhere in the
documentation either!!!
do you even try finding doc?
- Command: default num
Set the default
Jeff Sheinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There were 10 partitions on /dev/sdb before I changed the
partition type of /dev/sdb2 from `a5' BSD/386 to `b5' Unknown, ie,
hidden. After hiding /dev/sdb2, there are now only 7 partitions.
BSD/386 gives a slice, aka is not a proper partition...
n.
a bigger problem is where the initrd is loaded. If you precise less memory than
grub detected, grub loads the initrd too high in memory. The kernel can't access
it.
cu Pixel.
OKUJI Yoshinori [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
grub displaymem
EISA Memory BIOS Interface is present
Address Map BIOS Interface is present
Lower memory: 638K, Upper memory (to first chipset hole): 65527K
Then a bunch of addresses...
Thanks for the information. I suspect that the
Pavel Roskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hello!
IIRC, Mandrake uses GRUB with local patches applied. Thus, you
should debug your version of GRUB for yourself. I won't help you until
you remove the LPB.
some more info from Quel Qun:
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Using the current cooker grub-0.5.94-9mdk,
Pixel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Here is a patch to enable simple translation of chars.
oups, seems like it doesn't work when put in the menu.lst as a BUILTIN_MENU.
Well kinda: it works but fell back to command line afterwards.
It must be num_entries being 0 at stage2.c around line 700. But i
L]"
(didn't know that one, appeared on 386)
- password command: i don't quite understand what "new-config-file" must be.
What i'd like is to reload the same config file *without* the password
limitation.
sorry to bother you, I can make the changes if you want and send you the patch
(with
.
- on yet another box, both get_diskinfo_standard and
get_diskinfo_int13_extensions reports only 1024 cylinders.
To be able to overcome these 2 pbs, i use this _ugly_ patch below. A better (?)
solution would be to remove each use of total_sectors for verification.
thanks, cu Pixel.
PS: lilo 21-4
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