[bug #27625] Question about install and setup.

2009-10-08 Thread Felix Zielcke
report to ask a question. For that there are the bug-grub and help-grub mailing lists. GRUB 2 only has grub-install. That was and is always the prefered way to install it, even for GRUB Legacy. If GRUB 2's grub-install works then it should work. You have to try it out

[bug #27625] Question about install and setup.

2009-10-07 Thread Igor
URL: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?27625 Summary: Question about install and setup. Project: GNU GRUB Submitted by: booster Submitted on: Срд 07 Окт 2009 21:20:43 Category: None Severity: Major

Grub rescue question

2009-07-18 Thread karl.o...@bluewin.ch
Hello, I am preparing a new linux system using GRUB2 for this aircraft: http://www.dlr.de/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-1/86_read-18278/ I have some problems when trying to booting the linux system from a USB memory stick. Here is a trace of what I do and observe:

Re: Question: Grub with GPT disks

2009-02-13 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Tschiedel, Winfrid wrote: Hi, In times of large disks there is a need to change from msdos partition tables to gpt ( support of partitions 2 TB, or support of more than 15 partitions ). But it looks like, that grub supports only booting of partition 1,2 or 3. Are there any plans to

Question: Grub with GPT disks

2009-02-12 Thread Tschiedel, Winfrid
Hi, In times of large disks there is a need to change from msdos partition tables to gpt ( support of partitions 2 TB, or support of more than 15 partitions ). But it looks like, that grub supports only booting of partition 1,2 or 3. Are there any plans to remove this restriction ?? Browsing

Re: Grub question

2008-07-23 Thread walt
Felix Miata wrote: ... I've never installed Vista. You haven't missed much :o) I've never installed Grub to any MBR intentionally, and when done by accident, always replaced it with standard MBR code... Now that you explain your reasons I must admit it seems like a good idea. And I never

Re: Grub question

2008-07-23 Thread Felix Miata
On 2008/07/23 16:34 (GMT-0700) walt apparently typed: Felix Miata wrote: I've never installed Grub to any MBR intentionally, and when done by accident, always replaced it with standard MBR code... Now that you explain your reasons I must admit it seems like a good idea. And I never

Re: Grub question

2008-07-22 Thread walt
y_farkash wrote: walter s wrote: By default, grub looks for /boot/grub/menu.lst on the boot drive (where grub resides in the mbr). But if, for sake of argument, I have grub on the MBR of the first HD (lets call it hda), and I have hda1 being a Debian partition and hda2 being whatever, Gentoo,

Re: Grub question

2008-07-22 Thread Felix Miata
On 2008/07/22 17:26 (GMT-0700) walt apparently typed: Now, just to confuse you further, Felix has a good point: I recall from decades past (not past enough!) that the ordinary DOS mbr will boot the partition marked *active*, even if it's (M$ forbid!) not Windows. If you now install grub to

Question

2008-03-26 Thread Kurtis
Hi, I was just wondering whether or not the GRUB Boot Loader is included in the FULL Installation of Ubuntu Linux (Version 7.04 / 7.10). As on most occasions I have wondered if it has been included in the installation of the Linux O.S.? Another Question I have for you to answer is, because I do

Re: Question

2008-03-26 Thread Gregg Levine
of the Linux O.S.? Another Question I have for you to answer is, because I do like Linux, as well as Windows on my computer. How will I go about installing both on (Windows, Main OS Internal Hard Drive. Linux, on an External Hard Drive). Without the need of the GRUB Boot Loader. As when I install Linux

RE: Booting solaris from linux on a dual-boot machine with linux GRUBMBR : a difficult question

2006-11-06 Thread Treutwein Bernhard
-Original Message- From: Ian Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2006 3:37 PM To: bug-grub@gnu.org Subject: Booting solaris from linux on a dual-boot machine with linux GRUBMBR : a difficult question Hello, This may seem be a somewhat difficult (at least to me

Re: Booting solaris from linux on a dual-boot machine with linux GRUBMBR : a difficult question

2006-11-06 Thread Ian Brown
PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2006 3:37 PM To: bug-grub@gnu.org Subject: Booting solaris from linux on a dual-boot machine with linux GRUBMBR : a difficult question Hello, This may seem be a somewhat difficult (at least to me ) and long question; Hope you can help. I have Feodra Core 6

Re: Booting solaris from linux on a dual-boot machine with linux GRUBMBR : a difficult question

2006-11-06 Thread Jongki Suwandi
28, 2006 3:37 PM To: bug-grub@gnu.org Subject: Booting solaris from linux on a dual-boot machine=20 with linux GRUBMBR : a difficult question =20 =20 Hello, This may seem be a somewhat difficult (at least to me ) and=20 long question; Hope you can help. =20 I have Feodra Core 6

Re: Booting solaris from linux on a dual-boot machine with linux GRUB MBR : a difficult question

2006-11-05 Thread adrian15
Ian Brown escribió: Hello, Once you recover the solaris's grub ... reinstall linux grub on the linux partition boot sector and then chainload from solaris's grub to this linux grub and you're done. Just to make sure I understand: by reinstall linux grub, do you mean that I will boot into

Re: Booting solaris from linux on a dual-boot machine with linux GRUB MBR : a difficult question

2006-11-04 Thread Ian Brown
Hello, Once you recover the solaris's grub ... reinstall linux grub on the linux partition boot sector and then chainload from solaris's grub to this linux grub and you're done. Just to make sure I understand: by reinstall linux grub, do you mean that I will boot into solaris , then when the

Booting solaris from linux on a dual-boot machine with linux GRUB MBR : a difficult question

2006-10-28 Thread Ian Brown
Hello, This may seem be a somewhat difficult (at least to me ) and long question; Hope you can help. I have Feodra Core 6 on x86_64. The grub there is from default installation rpm ,grub-0.97-13. I had installed linux AFTER I hade installed solaris on this machine. Now I want to be able to boot

boot once question.

2006-08-24 Thread malahal
I want to install a linux distro on a partition of a disk. The system already has a running linux. What I currently do is copy the install kernel and the install initrd to my grub partition and add an entry to the menu.lst file. I **select** the install menu-entry for the first boot and the actual

A Question about GRUB Chainloading

2006-04-10 Thread sina khaknezhad
Hello,I have a question about GRUB that has confused me for quite a while.I have installed Windows XP on my first (C:) Partition. After that, I installedSuSE Linux 9.3, and chose GRUB to be installed on MBR. There is no problem with booting. Windoz is booted by chainloading (hd0,0), and Linux

RE: A Question about GRUB Chainloading

2006-04-10 Thread Joshua Foster
Sina, looks to me like you're making an image of the boot sector of the first partition, not the MBR. You probably want ( dd if=/dev/hda of=/tmp/MBR ). Notice just "hda" and not "hda1". "hda" will get you the MBR, "hda1" gets you the boot sector of the first partition, in your case the

diskless boot question

2006-02-05 Thread Eli Cohen
Hello, first I appologize if this is not the right place to post this question. My question is concerned with using grub to do boot of a diskless machine over the network. I have recently posted to Etherboot a network driver for Mellanox Technologies HCA devices, implementing IP Over Infiniband

Re: diskless boot question

2006-02-05 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 01:44:03PM +0200, Eli Cohen wrote: Hello, I am replying only because noone else did yet, although I am probably not the right person to do so. first I appologize if this is not the right place to post this question. My question is concerned with using grub to do boot

Re: diskless boot question

2006-02-05 Thread Gregg Levine
because noone else did yet, although I am probably not the right person to do so. first I appologize if this is not the right place to post this question. My question is concerned with using grub to do boot of a diskless machine over the network. I have recently posted to Etherboot

Re: question about grubloader

2006-02-03 Thread adrian15
in my pc the boot loader has lost and after start a pc is gives like as... grub ...according to u what should i to do for installing grub? can I upgrade it by using fc3 cds ? If you have done a Windows reinstall or similar you can download Super Grub Disk (in cdrom version)

question about grubloader

2006-02-02 Thread ravi waghmare
in my pc the boot loader has lost and after start a pc is gives like as... grub ..according to u what should i to do for installing grub? ...can I upgrade it by using fc3 cds ? ___ Bug-grub mailing list Bug-grub@gnu.org

Re: boot.S - source question

2005-08-02 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
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 BIOS

Re: boot.S - source question

2005-08-02 Thread Martin Baute
Am Dienstag, 2. August 2005 23:40 schrieben Sie: 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

boot.S - source question

2005-08-01 Thread Martin Baute
Hi there, I might prove my novice-ness with ASM coding by asking this question, but... ...I read the grub2/boot/i386/pc/boot.S sources, and one thing really has me wondering. Following the control flow of it, assuming a LBA-capable hard drive, brings me to: lba_mode: /* save the total

Question concernig background pictures

2005-05-12 Thread Dennis
Hello! I am using Suse 9.3 which comes along with Grub 0.95. As I have some time left, I tried to teach myself how to implement my own backgound pictures in the graphical menu selector of grub. As I searched through the web, I found many sites touching the issue, but none really explaining

Re: GRUB Legacy question

2005-05-07 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
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 2

GRUB Legacy question

2005-05-05 Thread Tom Carpenter
I'm trying to compile grub (legacy) so that the nbgrub image, when downloaded and run by Etherboot: 1) by default configures a network adapter and downloads a menu.lst via tftp and if the tftp download of menu.lst fails 2) attempts to boot the os installed on a local hard drive If I use nbgrub

Netboot grub/menu.lst question...

2005-04-25 Thread Jim Lundgren
Hi, I'm network booting with GRUB 0.94. Is it possible to make grub fetch the vmlinuz and ramdisk from the same directory as it got menu.lst without specifying the full path in menu.lst? I've seen this functionality in elilo and wonder if it is possible in grub too? Some more information: My

Beginners' question about interference of GRUB with windows bootloader

2005-04-01 Thread Aleksei
Hi, sorry for spamming list with stupid questions but I did not found any other obvious place (if there is one in the first place). I've installed GRUB Legacy, but since I have windows xp in my (hd0, 0) I decided to start GRUB from a floppy. This because I do not quite know how computer boots, I

Re: Beginners' question about interference of GRUB with windows bootloader

2005-04-01 Thread Jason Thomas
On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 04:45:00AM +0400, Aleksei wrote: I may select OS of alien computer). Will installing GRUB Legacy to my (hd0, 0) override bootmagic? Of course, that would not be that much of a disaster, since I could always reinstall bootmagic when travelling. no that will override

A question about open file

2005-03-11 Thread a a
Dear sir: I am a Chinese man.In RedHat8.0 whose kernel is 2.4.18 ,I compile Grub-0.95.It is Ok.Then I modify stage2/stage2.c.In cmain function,before is_opened = is_present = open_present_menu(),I add some code.In my added code,I use grub_open function to open a file.Then I compile and

Re: Grub-question when performing Kernel-upgrade

2005-02-06 Thread Alban Crequy
Le dimanche 06 février 2005 à 03:58, Ketjes Jette a écrit: - At the first boot we would start the new kernel: if I could change the default value to 1 before the real kernel is booted (no matter if the kernel can boot or not), than my problem is solved. With the last version of Grub, you can

Grub-question when performing Kernel-upgrade

2005-02-05 Thread Ketjes Jette
Hi, - I'm managing a remote machine (it takes quite some time and effort to get physical access to the machine) - I'm using grub as boot-loader - I've got 2 stanza: 0 = new compiled kernel, 1 = old (proven to work) kernel - I can power-cycle my machine remotely (with PDU from APC) I am always

FW: newbie question(s)

2004-12-16 Thread Guillermo Gutierrez
Title: newbie question(s) can anyone tell me if the *_STAGE1_5 are obsolete with GRUB 0.95? Is that why the version number goes down one when I include them in the hdd install of GRUB? -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Guillermo

newbie question(s)

2004-11-24 Thread Guillermo Gutierrez
Title: newbie question(s) hello, I just signed up today so please forgive me if I ask a repeated question. I wanted to find out, is it normal for the version number to go down by one when installing GRUB to the HDD? I got a hold of a *.img file that when written to a floppy and booted

Re: small question about using PXEgrub and splashimage

2004-10-10 Thread Alexander Heinz
i wanna add some fun, and use a splashimage for the boot menu of pxegrub. It is possible, since I'm using it quite some time in different versions with my home rolled splash screens, but it's a bit complicated, since it involves some patches and related packages. I'm doing this with SuSE, and

Re: small question about using PXEgrub and splashimage

2004-10-09 Thread Hans-Peter Jansen
On Saturday 02 October 2004 11:13, Alexandre LISSY wrote: Hi, i've installed a network boot system, using PXEgub (from grub 0.95), which work perfectly. i wanna add some fun, and use a splashimage for the boot menu of pxegrub. i've tried severals cases, but none works. So, i ask you to

small question about using PXEgrub and splashimage

2004-10-02 Thread Alexandre LISSY
Hi, i've installed a network boot system, using PXEgub (from grub 0.95), which work perfectly. i wanna add some fun, and use a splashimage for the boot menu of pxegrub. i've tried severals cases, but none works. So, i ask you to know if it's possible, and if it is, what to do to use it ? by

Question...

2004-06-16 Thread Juan Carlos Yáñez
excuse me, i wanna know how can i add some users in the form mike.rogers because the Red Hat 9 version is not allowed to do that, i asked some teachers and they told me to modify the \md5\ but i cant find something about it. I will really appreciate your help.

question(feature request..?)+

2004-05-23 Thread Sorin Serban
sorry. i forgot: also, would it be possible, in the future maybe, to be able to boot a cd/kernel_image_on_a_cd using a grub floppy?that would be really nice. it does work for loading from a cd if actually booted from the cd, but i can't seem to find the way to do it from a floppy(or any other

question(feature request..?)

2004-05-23 Thread nanok
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..) i have been googling all

Re: question(feature request..?)

2004-05-23 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 08:48:32AM +0300, [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

Re: question(feature request..?)

2004-05-23 Thread Sorin Serban
On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 04:20:01PM +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: [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

RE: question(feature request..?)

2004-05-23 Thread Uwe Heinz Rudi Dippel
-Original Message- From: Sorin Serban Subject: Re: question(feature request..?) well, i seemed to have phrased that wrong, i was veru tired to. hte previous reply seems to be more or less what i meant. the boot on panic option is a kernel option, that u can append (panic

Re: question(feature request..?)

2004-05-23 Thread Uwe Dippel
[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..)

Re: grub-md5-crypt question

2004-05-19 Thread Karan Saberwal
question Karan Saberwal writes: I have been trying to generate a script which will generate the md5 hash for a string taken as input from the command line. I use the openssl passwd command for this purpose, eg, $ openssl passwd -1 secret $1$Ia9cLJGU$q2Hj95gf4d8PFHRLKXFxz1

Re: grub-md5-crypt question

2004-03-24 Thread Jeff Sheinberg
Karan Saberwal writes: I have been trying to generate a script which will generate the md5 hash for a string taken as input from the command line. I use the openssl passwd command for this purpose, eg, $ openssl passwd -1 secret $1$Ia9cLJGU$q2Hj95gf4d8PFHRLKXFxz1 on my Debian

grub-md5-crypt question

2004-03-23 Thread Karan Saberwal
Hi I have been trying to generate a script which will generate the md5 hash for a string taken as input from the command line . For that , I used /sbin/grub-md5crypt , and used it as follows - #!/bin/sh # File name - md5.sh # This script will generate the md5

Grub question

2003-11-17 Thread Tom Dau
Hello, I have a question regarding manual boot of Linux. Here is what in the grub.conf file: root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/ initrd /initrd-2.4.20-8.img Now, let's assume I don't know the version of vmlinuz and the initrd image. If I am

Re: Grub question

2003-11-17 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Monday 17 November 2003 18:01, Tom Dau wrote: (B Now, let's assume I don't know the version of vmlinuz and the initrd (B image. If I am at the grub prompt, how do I find out the version of (B Linux to pass to the kernel command and initrd command? (B (BPushing TAB. It is better to read

Question about sample mini-kernel in docs

2003-11-02 Thread Mad Hatter
Hi, I'm trying to boot with the sample kernel in the docs directory but not having much success. Here's what happens: grub rooot (hd0,0) grub kernel /junk [Multiboot-elf, 0x10:-x7a8:0x4018, shtab=0x105168, entry=0x10] grub boot ... here it just hangs ... This is on a Dell Optiplex

RE: Question

2003-10-30 Thread Treutwein Bernhard
Treutwein, IuK, Ref. III A 3 Bernhard.Treutwein(at)verwaltung uni-muenchen de -Original Message- From: Sohaib Khan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 8:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Question hello i want to ask that what binary

Question

2003-10-27 Thread Sohaib Khan
hello i want to ask that what binary format the grub loader recongizes. when i place Linux a.out(Linux7.2) file either static or dynamic linked --- grub does not load that file. neither grub loads plain binary .com(windows) file. so please tell me what file format grub recongizes and

Re: Question

2003-10-27 Thread M. Gerards
Hi, Quoting Sohaib Khan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: i want to ask that what binary format the grub loader recongizes. when i place Linux a.out(Linux7.2) file either static or dynamic linked --- grub does not load that file. neither grub loads plain binary .com(windows) file. so please tell me

Question on 'map' and 'hide'

2003-09-25 Thread cr
Not exactly a bug, more like a few points that aren't quite clear in the manual. (Incidentally, I did hit a nasty bug - I was trying to boot Win95 on /hdc1 by using the 'map' and 'hide' technique, and either Grub or Win95 went and screwed with my Linux partition on /hda5 - changed it to

Re: Question on 'map' and 'hide'

2003-09-25 Thread cr
On Friday 26 September 2003 07:01, cr wrote: (snip) I gather, though it may fool DOS/Windows, Grub itself takes no notice of the mapping, since map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) rootnoverify (hd1)still points at /hda. Damn! I meant, 'rootnoverify (hd0,0)' still points at /hda, i.e.

question

2003-09-23 Thread Igor Bazilev
I am intstalled on my computer OS Linux and used grub 0.98 ver. Now, I amcriet new partition and formated vfat-32 for windows-xp. When I rebooted OS Windows, Grub asked me same command. What can I doing for Installing OS Windows-xp? I have "partition comander" and OS linux and OS windous-xp.

Re: Question

2003-09-05 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 08:40:38AM -0700, Harrity Susan wrote: Sorry to bother but I'm an amateur, at home user w/ problem: Windows cannnot start because the following file is missing or corrupt: (windows 2000 root)/system32/ntosarn1.exe. Can you direct us to a solution? MS website

question

2003-07-16 Thread Leslie Porter
im looking for something to create a multiple floppy booting system i can put on a hdd, zip and or cd-rom. ide like to beable to create images of floppy disks ( i have util disks and special boot disks) and use them specifically on a cd with a menu system to boot from wich ever. Did i explain

Re: Question about installing GRUB

2003-02-18 Thread Jeff Sheinberg
file menu.lst resides. In addition, in order to perform the install command, GRUB needs to be able to access the filesystem where its stage2 resides, and, this stage2 file must exist at boot time. My simple question should be yes however I have tried to install GRUB but I get errors

Question about OS/2 booting

2003-01-22 Thread Fred Heitkamp
I've been trying to find out why Grub will not boot my OS/2 MCP 4.52 installation. The boot managers Airboot and OS/2 Bootmanager do. Some folks on the comp.os.os2.* groups tell me that OS/2 needs the string 'I13X' at segment 30H, offset 0 (0030:) stored in memory before it will boot. At

Question: Booting off any drive connected to a RAID controller ...

2003-01-10 Thread Manish Lachwani
Title: Question: Booting off any drive connected to a RAID controller ... In the environment that I am currently using, I have a 3ware RAID controller (operating in JBOD mode) having 12 drives connected to it. I am using Linux 2.4. In this env, I can only boot off the first drive

Re: Multi-Disk RH config question

2003-01-01 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
At Sun, 29 Dec 2002 11:46:07 +0800, Sampson Fung wrote: Can I have menu.lst on different partitions to work in a cascaded mode? Use the command configfile. Okuji ___ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Grub install question

2002-12-30 Thread Mark Lundy
This is a procedural question and I hope that it will be an easy one for you experts to answer! :) I have two SCSI 9Gb hard drives in my system. I first loaded Red Hat 7.2 on the second drive and installe dGRUB as my boot loader, in order to allow Windows to have complete access to the first

Re: [Bug-grub] Grub install question

2002-12-30 Thread Jason Thomas
there are a number of ways. What you should probably do is boot into linux using a recover cd or floppy. then run grub-install. Redhat usually makes a /boot partition so if you have one something like this: grub-install --root-directory=/boot /dev/sda On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 09:35:30AM -0600,

Multi-Disk RH config question

2002-12-28 Thread Sampson Fung
Dear All, Currently I have 3 versions of RH installed to 4 SCSI HDD of my first AIC7770 card and I have a linux software raid on my second AIC7770 card. My disk map is: /dev/sda1 ext3 /boot # only used to store menu.lst, each RH has its own boot sub-dir. /dev/sda2 ext3 /tmp /dev/sda3 swap swap

Question

2002-12-13 Thread Michael Eichler
Hello, I have a question regarding grub. The various entries in grub.conf are listed under their titles. Is there a way to get the chosen title during the start-up? I would like to use this to boot with different configurations - e.g. load modules for wireless or not. Thank you in advance

Re: Question

2002-12-13 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
At Fri, 13 Dec 2002 10:45:45 -0600, Michael Eichler wrote: I have a question regarding grub. The various entries in grub.conf are listed under their titles. Is there a way to get the chosen title during the start-up? I would like to use this to boot with different configurations - e.g. load

A question...

2002-12-06 Thread Yury Umanets
Hi GRUB hackers, I have a question. GRUB documentation contains the following text: Support multiple filesystem types Support multiple filesystem types transparently, plus a useful explicit blocklist notation. The currently supported filesystem types are BSD FFS, DOS FAT16 and FAT32

Re: A question...

2002-12-06 Thread Herbert Szumovski
I think the block adressing in the chainloader is meant. /herbert At 16:29 06.12.2002, Yury Umanets wrote: Hi GRUB hackers, I have a question. GRUB documentation contains the following text: Support multiple filesystem types Support multiple filesystem types transparently, plus a useful

Re: A question...

2002-12-06 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
At Fri, 06 Dec 2002 18:29:23 +0300, Yury Umanets wrote: What does blocklist notation means? http://www.gnu.org/manual/grub-0.92/html_node/Block-list-syntax.html#Block%20list%20syntax Okuji ___ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: question about grub 0.92

2002-10-21 Thread Jeremy Katz
On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 09:05, Roman Jordan wrote: Hi, i downloaded grub version 0.92. And i found no information about the splash image. I use at the moment grub version 0.91. If i there call info grub i found one sentences about splash image. My question now: Is a splash image usable

question about grub 0.92

2002-10-19 Thread Roman Jordan
Hi, i downloaded grub version 0.92. And i found no information about the splash image. I use at the moment grub version 0.91. If i there call info grub i found one sentences about splash image. My question now: Is a splash image usable in version 0.92? And if so, are there the same limitations

GNU GRUB Question

2002-05-23 Thread Jim Urban
Hi, I plan to convert my PC to a dual boot system. I currently run OS/2 (yes some of us still use it) and plan to install Red Hat. I plan to use GNU GRUB instead of IBMs Boot Manager since it appears GRUB has more functionality. I am particularly interested in GRUBs ability to access

Install question

2002-04-10 Thread Grant Edwards
I can't figure out how to install grub for the following situation: 1) Removable disk is currently hd0 (hda). It contains installed Linux system. Grub files (including menu.lst) are in /boot/grub. 2) Drive will be hd3 (hdd) at boot time. I did this once before, but can't duplicate

Question about grub

2002-03-31 Thread bao
hello, I have a question about automake. I wanted to change the Makefile.in, so I need edit the Makefile.am First, I tried to run the command in the grub root path. #aclocal #autoconf till now , It is ok #automake some message showed the some error. Some of variable didn't

A question

2002-03-31 Thread bao
hello, I have a question about automake of the grub.0.90 .I wanted to change the Makefile.in, so I need edit the Makefile.amFirst, I tried to run the command in the grub root path.#aclocal#autoconftill now , It is ok#automakesome message showed the some error.Some of variable

Re: A question

2002-03-31 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
Read the file INSTALL. Okuji ___ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub

boot floppy documentation question

2002-03-03 Thread Ahmon Dancy
The docs say: # cd /usr/share/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 in 153+1 records out # Considering the fact that 'stage1' is 512 bytes anyway, wouldn't it be simpler to specify: cat

Question/problem with tftp configfile command...

2002-02-27 Thread Michael Breuer
I was attempting to control the local boot of a machine using a tftp server.  As boot-time and network bandwidth are considerations, I've preloaded various images to a machine, and attempted to use the, configfile command retrieve a configuration file form a tftp server. Problem: 1) the

newbie multiboot question

2002-02-26 Thread Tim Ince
Hi Using a boot floppy i can boot either windows or linux from the command line interface. I wish to install grub on my hard drive but i'm not sure what i need to do. I have a windows partition on hda1 and my linux partition on hda2. if i do setup (hd0) at the grub command prompt where does

GRUB problem question

2001-12-28 Thread Jay McCarthy
When grub starts it says, GRUB Hard Disk Error The manual says that that means it cannot properly detect the disk's geometry. Will putting a geometry command in the menu.lst be a fix for this? Or is there something else I that will fix this that I do not know? btw I'm not on the list - please

Question about using grub on disk image files (as opposed to discs)

2001-12-18 Thread John P. Looney
I'm trying to use grub to boot a flash image, which I'm making up as a normal file under linux, then creating partitions inside that file with fdisk, dding mkfs'd partitions into that file with offsets, then mounting those partitions, and populating them with an OS. It all works. Except for

Re: Question about using grub on disk image files (as opposed to discs)

2001-12-18 Thread Christoph Plattner
Interesting topic ! I play armound with this, with the further problem to have a cross build from Sparc (Solaris) to i386. One quite simple way is, you create a stage1 + stage1_5 on a device of your choise with an normal (online) install. The dd the MBR+nr_of_blocks of stage1.5 into a file,

Re: Question about using grub on disk image files (as opposed to discs)

2001-12-18 Thread John P. Looney
On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 12:32:55PM +0100, Christoph Plattner mentioned: Interesting topic ! I play armound with this, with the further problem to have a cross build from Sparc (Solaris) to i386. One quite simple way is, you create a stage1 + stage1_5 on a device of your choise with an

Re: Question about using grub on disk image files (as opposed to discs)

2001-12-18 Thread John P. Looney
On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 12:52:48PM +, John P. Looney mentioned: Looks good. But, on booting a box with this flash chip, I got a grub hard disk error of some description. I think it could be that grub is telling init that the root filesystem is on hd1 (which it no longer is, on the target

Question about [Boot Loader]

2001-11-27 Thread Eng. Hani H. Hilow
Hi, I am Hani H. Hilow Please I want to ask about the [Boot Loader], Where is it stored? What is the name of that file? WINDOWS XP shows the file content called BOOT.??? I don't know its extension, I tried to search my files for that file, but it was not found. Waiting for your reply,

Question: How do I rewrite MBR with existing RAID config?

2001-11-12 Thread William (Andy) Smith
I didn't see mention of this in the FAQ, though I attempted to emulate directions on installation. What I have done is RAID1 on /dev/hde and /dev/hdg so I've a root raid and raided swap. It rebooted fine, so grub has no trouble with the existing setup. I did a COLD swap of /dev/hde, so the

quick grub question

2001-08-08 Thread Robert Ross
Hello, A friend and I are installing linux on a flash device, and currently we're using GRUB. One of the reasons we chose not to use LILO was that by default it writes to the device on every boot; these flash devices are only good for so many writes. We went looking through the FAQ and other

Question

2001-08-03 Thread Igor Pruchanskiy
Hello all, I was wondering if GRUB will work on Alpha hardware ? I got this old Multia/UDB boxen yesterday and install debian-alpha on it, but MILO is such a pain in the but, so i am thinking of installing GRUB on it... -- Uptime: 93 days, 18:14

Re: Question

2001-08-03 Thread Derrik Pates
On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Igor Pruchanskiy wrote: I was wondering if GRUB will work on Alpha hardware ? I got this old Multia/UDB boxen yesterday and install debian-alpha on it, but MILO is such a pain in the but, so i am thinking of installing GRUB on it... Grub is presently, far as I'm aware,

Question

2001-07-14 Thread Sergey
Can you please help me? I have Promise ultra ata 100 TX2 controller, and i can't load my linux (it was on /dev/hda)? it says "root file system is not found" Can you please help me how to solve this problem, will GRUB load my linux normally, like lilo always did before i bought this damn

Re: Question about multiboot-elf

2001-05-14 Thread Maciek Nowacki
Hi! On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 06:38:07AM +0800, Rogelio Serrano wrote: Alternately, I suppose that GRUB could be hacked to map 0xc000-0x to the physical range 0x-0x3000. I think that this would violate the multiboot standard. There is a linker option to change

Question about multiboot-elf

2001-05-10 Thread Maciek Nowacki
Hello, I'm looking at using GRUB to load a Multiboot compliant kernel. I'm using a reduced Linux kernel as a starting point for playing with this (the goal is to eventually load the ELF executable 'vmlinux' as produced by 'make vmlinux'). Anyway, the first problem seems to be that the kernel

Re: question (i am in a hurry)

2001-04-19 Thread Jochen Hoenicke
On Apr 18, Canavessi Carlos Martin wrote: Hello! I am an argentine user of grub since the first versions, and last night I was installing Debian 2.2 for the 5th time, and when I installed grub, I wrote this command: grub-install /dev/hda1 (where you can notice the hda1 instead of hda) *

question (i am in a hurry)

2001-04-18 Thread Canavessi Carlos Martin
Hello! I am an argentine user of grub since the first versions, and last night I was installing Debian 2.2 for the 5th time, and when I installed grub, I wrote this command: grub-install /dev/hda1 (where you can notice the hda1 instead of hda) * hda1 is windows partition * hda2 is swap linux

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