Bug#653406: GRUB2 2 many problems ?

2012-01-15 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 15.01.2012 22:01, John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell wrote: grub-mkrescue images can be dd'ed to floppy when small enough (--compression=xz --diet AFAIR) Yes it can. And you can insmod and boot. It's just an unusable pain without a dependancy resolver (which won't dd due to code cho

Bug#653406: GRUB2 2 many problems ?

2012-01-15 Thread John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell
grub-mkrescue images can be dd'ed to floppy when small enough (--compression=xz --diet AFAIR) Yes it can. And you can insmod and boot. It's just an unusable pain without a dependancy resolver (which won't dd due to code choices in grub2 additions, rather it will but part b won't find part

Bug#653406: GRUB2 2 many problems ?

2012-01-15 Thread John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell
Thank you Vladimir, WOW it's been ages since I left that message. Incidentally I did save some error messages (as it so happens it's still in a file in a dump of something else). See further below. I can neither get it on floppy or HD, and none of 3 installers I installed FRESH from did it

Bug#653406: GRUB2 2 many problems ?

2012-01-14 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
First of all lumping several problems into same mail and not providing decent detail for any of them is the best way to get yourself ignored. On 27.12.2011 20:53, John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell wrote: Package: grub-common Version: 1.98+20100804-14 Boot method: downloaded 52 CDs, mounted l

Bug#653406: GRUB2 2 many problems ?

2011-12-27 Thread John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell
Package: grub-common Version: 1.98+20100804-14 Boot method: downloaded 52 CDs, mounted loopback Image version: squeeze 6.0.1 Date: 12-12-2011 Machine: bios doesn't support boot from usb or lan. no CD drive. Processor: amd64 Memory: 256m Partitions: a root partion, an empty root partiion, the re