Re: Don`t understand error message

2003-10-06 Thread Yoshinori Okuji
--- Marco Gerards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know this is quite off-topic, but do you have some information about the GNU Universal File System (of course I have googled for this)? No, not at all. So I even don't know if his idea was excellent or not. ;) Okuji

Re: Don`t understand error message

2003-10-04 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 07:41:21PM +0100, Yoshinori Okuji wrote: But I'm not sure what is the right way to fix this problem. One way is to add a resolver of symlinks in a device map into grub-install. It wouldn't be very difficult. Another idea is to have the grub shell to do all the

Re: Don`t understand error message

2003-10-04 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 11:45:55PM +0200, Thierry Laronde wrote: On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 04:35:58PM +, Robert Millan wrote: Uhm.. that's interesting. Have you played with GRUB on *BSD? There are some things that need polishing (like UFS2 or device access from GRUB shell). I don't

Re: Don`t understand error message

2003-10-04 Thread Thierry Laronde
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 03:49:19PM +, Robert Millan wrote: I'm not quite convinced that the so-called GRUB shell is the correct way for the installation, If you have some ideas, you should be pointing them out. Hum... because these ideas are, this time, quite orthogonal since I have

Re: Don`t understand error message

2003-10-04 Thread Yoshinori Okuji
--- Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I understood correctly, the GRUB shell relies on device.map to translate BIOS devices into kernel device files, and uses standard Un*x calls on /dev to access the devices. Is that it? Exactly. Also, the grub shell creates a new device map file by

Re: Don`t understand error message

2003-10-04 Thread Yoshinori Okuji
--- Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Btw, I recall that the GNU system doesn't have any native filesystem yet. For example we have gnu ext2fs and gnu ufs (filesystem servers, both part of the Hurd package) IIRC, Thomas said that he had an idea about GNU Universal File System or

Re: Don`t understand error message

2003-10-04 Thread Marco Gerards
Yoshinori Okuji [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: --- Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Btw, I recall that the GNU system doesn't have any native filesystem yet. For example we have gnu ext2fs and gnu ufs (filesystem servers, both part of the Hurd package) IIRC, Thomas said that he had an

Re: Don`t understand error message

2003-10-04 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 08:18:22PM +0100, Yoshinori Okuji wrote: --- Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Btw, I recall that the GNU system doesn't have any native filesystem yet. For example we have gnu ext2fs and gnu ufs (filesystem servers, both part of the Hurd package) IIRC,

Re: Don`t understand error message

2003-10-03 Thread Robert Millan
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? There are some things that need polishing (like UFS2 or device access from GRUB

Re: Don`t understand error message

2003-10-03 Thread Michael Gehm
On Thursday 02 October 2003 00:43, you wrote: On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 10:18:55PM +0200, Michael Gehm wrote: bash-2.05a# ./grub-install --debug /dev/hd0 Uhm.. why hd0? This is GNU Mach device nomenclature. :) +++ grep -v '^#' /boot/grub/device.map +++ grep

Re: Don`t understand error message

2003-10-03 Thread Yoshinori Okuji
--- Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems that because you have an unusual device name, some part of GRUB is unable to recognise it. It is not an unusual device, but you are right in the point where GRUB cannot recongnize it. I think I have already answered the same problem in the

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? There are

Re: Don`t understand error message

2003-10-02 Thread Thierry Laronde
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 10:43:32PM +, Robert Millan wrote: On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 10:18:55PM +0200, Michael Gehm wrote: +++ sed 's%.*\(([hf]d[0-9][a-g0-9,]*)\).*%\1%' Urgh. I should learn sed someday ;) sed extracts entries matching (hdnumber or (fdnumber that may be followed by a

Re: Don`t understand error message

2003-10-01 Thread Michael Gehm
On Sunday 28 September 2003 19:25, you wrote: On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 04:33:04PM +0200, Michael Gehm wrote: Hi, I boot my box with grub from a knoppix installation. Now I installed grub (0.932) on my Gentoo partition, copied menu.lst from Knoppix to Gentoo (/boot/grub) and typed:

Don`t understand error message

2003-09-28 Thread Michael Gehm
Hi, I boot my box with grub from a knoppix installation. Now I installed grub (0.932) on my Gentoo partition, copied menu.lst from Knoppix to Gentoo (/boot/grub) and typed: grub-install /dev/hda. I'm afraid, I don't understand the error message I get then: gentoo root # grub-install /dev/hda

Re: Don`t understand error message

2003-09-28 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 04:33:04PM +0200, Michael Gehm wrote: Hi, I boot my box with grub from a knoppix installation. Now I installed grub (0.932) on my Gentoo partition, copied menu.lst from Knoppix to Gentoo (/boot/grub) and typed: grub-install /dev/hda. I'm afraid, I don't