Re: cross-platform GRUB

2001-07-10 Thread Thierry Laronde
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 01:40:10PM -0600, David Monk wrote: This is not a bug, but it may turn into a feature request. Is there a port of GRUB to Windows. It would be so nice to share one common tool to manage my bootloader across platforms. I am not a member of the list, so a direct email

Re: cross-platform GRUB

2001-07-10 Thread Christoph Plattner
The boot loader GRUB is not for one platform ! It is for the platform called BIOS and is OS independent. So GRUB can be installed to DOS or windows partitions (not FAT32, AFAIK) and can boot several OSes. So your request is already fullfilled. But: You cannot use Windows to build (compile) and

Re: cross-platform GRUB

2001-07-10 Thread OKUJI Yoshinori
From: Christoph Plattner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: cross-platform GRUB Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 08:39:35 +0200 So GRUB can be installed to DOS or windows partitions (not FAT32, AFAIK) and can boot several OSes. FAT32 is supported. If not, that must be a bug. So I think, it would

RE: cross-platform GRUB

2001-07-10 Thread David Monk
Title: RE: cross-platform GRUB Ok. Now I am confused. I understand that GRUB is OS independent. What I am asking for is a means to configure it from Windows and run it, to install the new MBR, from Windows. There is already a binary to do this? David Monk System Administrator Encoda

cross-platform GRUB

2001-07-09 Thread David Monk
Title: cross-platform GRUB This is not a bug, but it may turn into a feature request. Is there a port of GRUB to Windows. It would be so nice to share one common tool to manage my bootloader across platforms. I am not a member of the list, so a direct email reply would be nice. David Monk