Re: Mailers and In-reply-to; was Re(4): Postscript: Grub2 in current Squeeze

2010-02-05 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 12:58:05 -0500 (EST), peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > When a message was created by clicking the Reply button > in that mailer, a correct In-reply-to parameter was included. > No complaint. > > The problematic case is where a message in the archive is > read with the browser and

Mailers and In-reply-to; was Re(4): Postscript: Grub2 in current Squeeze

2010-02-05 Thread peasthope
Tixy, > ... both the message I just quoted and the one I originally replied to > have an "In-reply-to" header ... In http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2010/02/author.html or http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2010/02/author2.html or http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2010/02/author3.html d

Re: Re(2): Postscript: Grub2 in current Squeeze

2010-02-04 Thread Tixy
On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 10:29 -0800, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 17:03 -0800, PETER EASTHOPE wrote: > > Sorry for the absence of thread connection. This mailer doesn't > > provide In-reply-to. > > > > Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:10:16 +, Tixy > wrote, > > I think it does

Re(2): Postscript: Grub2 in current Squeeze

2010-02-04 Thread peasthope
On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 17:03 -0800, PETER EASTHOPE wrote: > Sorry for the absence of thread connection. This mailer doesn't > provide In-reply-to. Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:10:16 +, Tixy wrote, > I think it does, check the headers :-) The login for the Web based mailer is here. http://

Re: Postscript: Grub2 in current Squeeze

2010-02-03 Thread Tom H
>>>Granted I'm not trying anything out of the way, just multi-booting half >>>a dozen GNU/linux systems, but seriously, would grub2 be part of debian >>>stable if it was as... unstable as has been claimed in this thread..?? > Did grub2 recognize your other OS's automatically?  I've only used grub2

Re: Postscript: Grub2 in current Squeeze

2010-02-02 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 11:54:42PM EST, Mark wrote: > >On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Chris Jones wrote: [..] > Did grub2 recognize your other OS's automatically? grub does not recognize other OS's. It invokes a utility called os-prober, which is a separate package, and does not IMHO do a ve

Re: Postscript: Grub2 in current Squeeze

2010-02-02 Thread Mark
>On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Chris Jones wrote: > >On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 04:00:07PM EST, Tom H wrote: > > > >Granted I'm not trying anything out of the way, just multi-booting half > >a dozen GNU/linux systems, but seriously, would grub2 be part of debian > >stable if it was as... unstable

Re: Postscript: Grub2 in current Squeeze

2010-02-02 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 04:00:07PM EST, Tom H wrote: [..] > I have been using grub2 since September. I have not used Debian's > grub2 but Ubuntu's, Fedora's, and Arch's have been problem free. I > have installed it at friends' and even at a company where I was > moonlighting (at the insistence of

Re: Postscript: Grub2 in current Squeeze

2010-02-02 Thread Tom H
>> Your regular rants against grub are entertaining. :) > I wouldn't call it a rant. I have nothing personal against grub-pc, > per se. I hope they are eventually successful in their project. > I just think it's too unstable for production use at this time. > You of course are entitled to disagree

Re: Postscript: Grub2 in current Squeeze

2010-02-02 Thread Tixy
On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 17:03 -0800, PETER EASTHOPE wrote: > Sorry for the absence of thread connection. This mailer doesn't > provide In-reply-to. I think it does, check the headers :-) -- Tixy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: Postscript: Grub2 in current Squeeze

2010-02-01 Thread PETER EASTHOPE
Sorry for the absence of thread connection. This mailer doesn't provide In-reply-to. FromView message header detail Tom H DateMonday, February 1, 2010 12:08 > The OP said that his error was "BIOS Installed Successfully", which > must mean that his box had a hardware upgrade/change and

Re: Postscript: Grub2 in current Squeeze

2010-02-01 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 1 Feb 2010 15:08:24 -0500 (EST), Tom H wrote: > Your regular rants against grub are entertaining. :) I wouldn't call it a rant. I have nothing personal against grub-pc, per se. I hope they are eventually successful in their project. I just think it's too unstable for production use at th

Re: Postscript: Grub2 in current Squeeze

2010-02-01 Thread Tom H
>> My usual email isn't available until Grub works again. >> Yes, updating a system via a remote connection is probably not advisable. >> Attempting to run aptitude to reinstall grub from the rescue mode system >> gives this message. >> Error opening terminal: bterm >> How might this damage be repa

Re: Postscript: Grub2 in current Squeeze

2010-02-01 Thread Tom H
> My usual email isn't available until Grub works again. > Yes, updating a system via a remote connection is probably not advisable. > Attempting to run aptitude to reinstall grub from the rescue mode system > gives this message. > Error opening terminal: bterm > How might this damage be repaire

Re: Postscript: Grub2 in current Squeeze

2010-02-01 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 1 Feb 2010 14:11:26 -0500 (EST), PETER EASTHOPE wrote: > My usual email isn't available until Grub works again. > Yes, updating a system via a remote connection is probably not advisable. > Attempting to run aptitude to reinstall grub from the rescue mode system > gives this message. > Err

Postscript: Grub2 in current Squeeze

2010-02-01 Thread PETER EASTHOPE
My usual email isn't available until Grub works again. Yes, updating a system via a remote connection is probably not advisable. Attempting to run aptitude to reinstall grub from the rescue mode system gives this message. Error opening terminal: bterm How might this damage be repaired. Thanks,

Grub2 in current Squeeze

2010-02-01 Thread PETER EASTHOPE
Squeeze on an IBM NetVista here, was updated about 2010-01-27 via a remote connection.  Nothing remarkable about the update.  Sunday morning I arrived to find the machine rebooting repeatedly.  The console shows   BIOS Installed Successfully!   Grub loading.   Welcome to GRUB! Then the screen go