For those who helped.
On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 13:58 -0400, William Case wrote:
Hi Tim and others who may have been watching this thread.
[snip]
So the answer must be grub is switching video modes.
I wonder if I should report this as a Fedora bug against grub ?
I bought a new Samsung LCD
On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 00:35 -0400, William Case wrote:
Perhaps I am being just a bit stubborn, but I wanted to learn how to
diagnose the problem first, not just write something over top of it.
Understanding what's going on is fine, and good. I don't discount the
importance of it.
The solution
Hi Tim and others who may have been watching this thread.
On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 20:22 +0930, Tim wrote:
On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 00:35 -0400, William Case wrote:
Perhaps I am being just a bit stubborn, but I wanted to learn how to
diagnose the problem first, not just write something over top of
William Case stands high up on the bridge, puts his trumpet to his lips,
and plays the last post taaah taah thhh:
So the answer must be grub is switching video modes.
I wonder if I should report this as a Fedora bug against grub ?
Well, if it is switching video modes, it
On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 11:31 +0930, Tim wrote:
William Case stands high up on the bridge, puts his trumpet to his lips,
and plays the last post taaah taah thhh:
So the answer must be grub is switching video modes.
I wonder if I should report this as a Fedora bug against
Hi;
I have started this thread again as a new thread. The previous Double
checking grub-install ?? lead off in all kinds of plausible directions.
I think I now have more of a focus.
To recap:
I am getting a double Fedora grub splashimage at boot. I have a dual
boot system with WindowsXP
On Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:43:04 -0400, William Case wrote:
Hi;
I have started this thread again as a new thread. The previous Double
checking grub-install ?? lead off in all kinds of plausible directions.
I think I now have more of a focus.
To recap:
I am getting a double Fedora grub
William Case wrote:
Hi;
I have started this thread again as a new thread. The previous Double
checking grub-install ?? lead off in all kinds of plausible directions.
I think I now have more of a focus.
To recap:
I am getting a double Fedora grub splashimage at boot. I have a dual
boot
Hi Mikkel;
On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 10:54 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
William Case wrote:
Hi;
I have started this thread again as a new thread. The previous Double
checking grub-install ?? lead off in all kinds of plausible directions.
I think I now have more of a focus
On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 17:32 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
On Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:43:04 -0400, William Case wrote:
Hi;
I have started this thread again as a new thread. The previous Double
checking grub-install ?? lead off in all kinds of plausible directions.
I think I now have
On Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:50:31 -0400, William Case wrote:
I checked and low and behold I found GRUB listed in the first block
(mbr ??) of both disks. So I thought I should chase that down before I
filed an inappropriate bug report.
Then what happens if you overwrite sda's mbr with NTLDR?
To
On Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:10:29 -0400, William Case wrote:
Can you hit keys to enter the first GRUB menu and stop it
from booting any entry automatically?
No. The image is incomplete in the first instance and disappers too
quickly.
Can you influence it by editing /boot/grub/grub.conf and
-
On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 19:35 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
On Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:50:31 -0400, William Case wrote:
I checked and low and behold I found GRUB listed in the first block
(mbr ??) of both disks. So I thought I should chase that down before I
filed an inappropriate bug report.
On Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:56:20 -0400, William Case wrote:
On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 19:35 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
On Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:50:31 -0400, William Case wrote:
I checked and low and behold I found GRUB listed in the first block
(mbr ??) of both disks. So I thought I should
William Case wrote:
Hi Mikkel;
If I remember correctly from the first thread, you would get a brief
flash on the screen with Fedora at the top of the screen, a short
pause, and then the proper splash screen with Fedora on the bottom.
This is a good indication that ether the video card or the
On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 13:15 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
William Case wrote:
Hi Mikkel;
Yes. And that was where I was going to leave it. There was a suggestion
on the list that I should file a bug against grub. I was about to do
that this morning and thought that I should
Hi Michael;
On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 19:54 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
On Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:10:29 -0400, William Case wrote:
Can you hit keys to enter the first GRUB menu and stop it
from booting any entry automatically?
No. The image is incomplete in the first instance and
On Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:33:10 -0400, William Case wrote:
the video mode problem seems to be with grub2 -- not
grub-0.97-33.fc9.x86_64
?? Can't comment on grub2 yet as I've seen it only once or twice, I think,
and it's a different code base. Your recent description of the symptoms
sounds like
On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 21:13 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
On Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:33:10 -0400, William Case wrote:
the video mode problem seems to be with grub2 -- not
grub-0.97-33.fc9.x86_64
?? Can't comment on grub2 yet as I've seen it only once or twice, I think,
and it's a different
Hi;
On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 14:33 -0400, William Case wrote:
On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 13:15 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
William Case wrote:
Hi Mikkel;
[snip]
Just to see what happens how would I go about safely removing the stage1
of Grub from /dev/sdb ??
--
Regards Bill;
Fedora 9,
On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 10:43 -0400, William Case wrote:
If it is, how do I remove it (from sdb -- I presume)?
Extra stuff shouldn't matter, if you configure the first thing to take
over.
i.e. I can have ten discs in a box, GRUB on all of them. But if the
first thing the BIOS does is read GRUB
Hi Tim;
On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 13:28 +0930, Tim wrote:
On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 10:43 -0400, William Case wrote:
If it is, how do I remove it (from sdb -- I presume)?
Extra stuff shouldn't matter, if you configure the first thing to take
over.
i.e. I can have ten discs in a box, GRUB on all
D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
The Master Boot Record (MBR) is the first block on the hard drive.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbr is worth a read.
interesting reading. if you can fully believe something written by
users of oos.
i do not fully agree with calling calling sector 0 of track an lba
On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 07:12 +, g wrote:
interesting reading. if you can fully believe something written by
users of oos.
OOS? I can't find a definition for that term that seems to fit.
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ uname -r
2.6.25.6-55.fc9.i686
Don't send private replies to my address, the
Tim wrote:
OOS? I can't find a definition for that term that seems to fit.
lol.
please, lower case only. 'other operating system'. aka, msbsos.
you should be able to figure it out now.
i do not like or use it. oos helps me not think of it. :o)
--
tc,hago.
g
.
in a free world without
Thank you D. Hugh Redelmeier;
On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 01:25 -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
| From: William Case [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| 1) stage1 is one line that is installed on the mbr within the 64 bytes
| or 512 bits that is reserved on the disk for booting purposes.
Boot records are 512
| From: William Case [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| 1) stage1 is one line that is installed on the mbr within the 64 bytes
| or 512 bits that is reserved on the disk for booting purposes.
Boot records are 512 bytes. The code must fit into about 440 bytes of
this.
The Master Boot Record (MBR) is the
On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 14:15 -0400, William Case wrote:
I have to run fixmbr on my WindowsXP harddisk (sda). I assume this
use of fixmbr will blow away my grub.
It will change the master boot record to suit Windows. If you'd
previously put GRUB on there, you'd lose it.
I'm not sure that I
Thanks for replying Tim;
On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 16:05 +0930, Tim wrote:
On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 14:15 -0400, William Case wrote:
I have to run fixmbr on my WindowsXP harddisk (sda). I assume this
use of fixmbr will blow away my grub.
It will change the master boot record to suit Windows.
William Case wrote:
I was trying to avoid wasting peoples time with a long description.
it can clear things up sometimes as they are becoming not. [excuse order
of comments. trying to reply as you have things written]
When I first boot I get the Fedora grub splash screen/menu twice --
as
William Case wrote:
Hi Tim;
On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 07:35 +0930, Tim wrote:
On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 10:28 -0400, William Case wrote:
When I first boot I get the Fedora grub splash screen/menu twice --
besides that everything else boots normally.
This describes the behavior that
Hi Stan;
Lets step back a little bit.
On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 18:52 -0700, stan wrote:
William Case wrote:
Hi Tim;
On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 07:35 +0930, Tim wrote:
On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 10:28 -0400, William Case wrote:
When I first boot I get the Fedora grub splash
Hi g;
On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 18:42 +, g wrote:
William Case wrote:
I am looking for confirmation that this is a correct strategy and the
proper use of the grub-install command.
i have not used oos for several years and when i have had to reinstall grub,
i have been using a mandriva
William Case wrote:
snip
My Fedora version is listed with my signature.
so it is. did not notice before. guess i will have to start noting sigs
before i question versions. :o)
During a bugzilla discourse, a program or facility called 'firstaid' was
can not answer about that. next release
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