Re: GRUB on CD

2002-08-08 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 10:47:32AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > You'll need Thierry Laronde's patch for that: > > http://alpha.polynum.org/misc/ > > It will be applied for GRUB 0.93 btw, I made a package that takes GRUB components from the installed grub package and (using the mkbimage scrip

Re: GRUB on CD

2002-08-08 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 01:05:09AM -0400, Sam Lauzon wrote: > > Yesterday in #hurd on OPN, someone was looking for a way to install > GRUB on a diskless system for which he had little permissions for. The > problem was somewhat interesting but easy to solve... (boot from a CD > and install it. :

Re: GRUB on CD

2002-08-07 Thread Andrew Mitchell
If you'd stuck around a bit longer yesterday, I got GRUB working on CD (testing in bochs), and GNUMach loading, although I've yet to get it loading further :) On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 01:05:09AM -0400, Sam Lauzon wrote: > > Yesterday in #hurd on OPN, someone was looking for a way to install >

GRUB on CD

2002-08-07 Thread Sam Lauzon
Yesterday in #hurd on OPN, someone was looking for a way to install GRUB on a diskless system for which he had little permissions for. The problem was somewhat interesting but easy to solve... (boot from a CD and install it. :p ) This got me thinking about trying to make GRUB boot from a CD.

Re: GRUB on CD

2001-08-23 Thread Thierry Laronde
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 03:40:44PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 03:11:43PM +0200, Thierry Laronde wrote: > > > For instance: > > > > > > (grub) blocklist (hd0,3) > > > 3906945+1953441 > > > (grub) > > > > > > This would permit us to remove the partitioning table

Re: GRUB on CD

2001-08-23 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 03:11:43PM +0200, Thierry Laronde wrote: > > For instance: > > > > (grub) blocklist (hd0,3) > > 3906945+1953441 > > (grub) > > > > This would permit us to remove the partitioning table detection code > > from ext2fs.static for things such as boot floppies, etc.

Re: GRUB on CD

2001-08-23 Thread Thierry Laronde
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 03:08:22PM +0200, Neal H Walfield wrote: > On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 03:02:55PM +0200, Thierry Laronde wrote: > > Since I will perhaps have a _little_ spare time during the next month, I > > plan to work a little on GRUB. > > Hey Thierry, as there is still a week left this mo

Re: GRUB on CD

2001-08-23 Thread Neal H Walfield
On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 03:02:55PM +0200, Thierry Laronde wrote: > Since I will perhaps have a _little_ spare time during the next month, I > plan to work a little on GRUB. Hey Thierry, as there is still a week left this month, I figured you might be a little bored. Anyway, if you are still looki

Re: GRUB on CD

2001-08-02 Thread OKUJI Yoshinori
From: Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: GRUB on CD Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 13:56:30 +0200 > Actually, we would like GRUB to be able to parse a boot script akin > servers.boot and do some basic pattern substitution on it, so we can > scrap serverboot. However, we

Re: GRUB on CD

2001-08-02 Thread Neal H Walfield
> Actually, the scripting abilities are mentionned in the TODO list. But I > think that it would not be a great idea to "hack" something ad hoc without > discussing more deeply the organization of the GRUB. Agreed. > I will first ensure that GRUB is usefull on CDs --- so that everybody can > use

Re: GRUB on CD

2001-08-01 Thread Thierry Laronde
On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 01:56:30PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 09:01:38AM +0900, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote: > > From: Thierry Laronde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: GRUB on CD > > Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 15:02:55 +0200 > > > > &

Re: GRUB on CD

2001-08-01 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 09:01:38AM +0900, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote: > From: Thierry Laronde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: GRUB on CD > Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 15:02:55 +0200 > > > What do we need specially for the HURD? > > Nothing, I think. We just need to e

Re: GRUB on CD

2001-08-01 Thread Thierry Laronde
Hello Okuji, On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 09:01:38AM +0900, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote: > > > GRUB being able to boot from the El > > Torito image for CD installs [this might just be a problem of BPB] ? > > Why not? OK, I take at least this one [and will switch after to the long delayed virtual mode stuf