Re: singleboot

2005-11-02 Thread Vincent Pelletier
Paul Tarjan wrote: > I've been wanting for quite some time a method to be in linux, and > reboot into windows for just this one time and keep linux as my > default boot. What about : default saved title windows root ... makeactive chainloader +1 title linux root ... kernel ... initrd ... savede

Re: Fix for strange characters in GRUB 1.91

2005-11-02 Thread Hollis Blanchard
On Nov 2, 2005, at 11:19 AM, Marco Gerards wrote: On the pegasos the firmware does not support a framebuffer. But I think if we add an ATI driver, most pegasos users will have a framebuffer. If there is a framebuffer the menu borders will always look nice. Pegasos firmware doesn't provide a

singleboot

2005-11-02 Thread Paul Tarjan
I've been wanting for quite some time a method to be in linux, and reboot into windows for just this one time and keep linux as my default boot. My only solution so far has been to have a boot disk with one grub.conf with windows as the default and the other grub.conf on the hard drive to have linu

Re: Bison error handling

2005-11-02 Thread Marco Gerards
Marco Gerards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The main problem is in case of a syntax error. In that case all of > the state should be released (free all memory structures). But I have > no idea how to do that; yyparse just returns an error. I need a way > to make bison return a valid structure

Bison error handling

2005-11-02 Thread Marco Gerards
Hi, Hopefully any of you have either a clue about bison or an idea how to solve this problem. What happens now is that during parsing memory is allocated. If everything is parsed there is a set of malloc'ed memory all pointing to each other, etc. The main problem is in case of a syntax error.

Re: Fix for strange characters in GRUB 1.91

2005-11-02 Thread Marco Gerards
Dennis Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Do you know anything about the possibility for support of a background > graphic image also or is that still a major leap with many > ramifications ? For that we need to have framebuffer support. Framebuffer support is planned for GRUB 2. After that n

Re: Fix for strange characters in GRUB 1.91

2005-11-02 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 11/2/05, Marco Gerards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dennis Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > A picture says a 1000 words : > > > > http://www.blastwave.org/dclarke/grub/grub_1.91/day_01/img_1280.jpg > > > > I was thinking that perhaps simple line drawing with "-" and "+" could > > be

Re: Fix for strange characters in GRUB 1.91

2005-11-02 Thread Marco Gerards
Dennis Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A picture says a 1000 words : > > http://www.blastwave.org/dclarke/grub/grub_1.91/day_01/img_1280.jpg > > I was thinking that perhaps simple line drawing with "-" and "+" could > be used for now and that would also work nicely on serial consoles and

Fix for strange characters in GRUB 1.91

2005-11-02 Thread Dennis Clarke
A picture says a 1000 words : http://www.blastwave.org/dclarke/grub/grub_1.91/day_01/img_1280.jpg I was thinking that perhaps simple line drawing with "-" and "+" could be used for now and that would also work nicely on serial consoles and old DEV VT units that some of us still use on headles

Re: [GRUB1] Accessibility: Add beep support

2005-11-02 Thread adrian15
> Hi, > > I know that no new feature are added to grub1, but this really small > feature (it can be just implemented as "echo ^G") would be _much_ useful > for blind people. Please see details on > https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=14661 > I proposed a patch adding an "echo" c

Re: Scripting support (PATCH)

2005-11-02 Thread adrian15
> > I think also. Because theese modifications are lost after boot they > > are generally modified only to boot one time an OS with specifical > > parameters and you don't need scripts for this. > > Right. The only reason I see for editing the script in general is to > edit some menu generation r

Re: Automatic backup with grub

2005-11-02 Thread adrian15
> On Thursday 27 Oct 2005 17:03, E Leibovich wrote: > > As I'm planning to use it as a recovery console I > > prefer loading linux won't be dependable of loading > > windows, but that it'll be loaded on its on each week > > or each 10 boots. It seems to me that grub requires a > > very small patch