Re: ping (update-grub2)

2006-11-27 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 08:48:08AM +1100, Jason Thomas wrote: > I think now is the time. Lets do it. You mean in Debian? If upstream is not interested, I'd really prefer an explicit answer, just to be sure. > On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 06:00:16PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > > > > No comments? A

Re: [RFC] multiboot2 loader

2006-11-27 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Sunday 26 November 2006 23:50, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > Nothing prevents you from writing a C library - the POSIX and C > standards are available independently. Yet the C library is under > LGPL. Also nothing prevents you from writing an ogg vorbis > implementation, but the FSF advocated the BSD

Re: [RFC] multiboot2 loader

2006-11-27 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Sunday 26 November 2006 11:18, Tomáš Ebenlendr wrote: > And should the multiboot header file be "Grub's"? If the header is written for GRUB, yes. If it has no relationship with GRUB, no. That's very simple. > What about having > "Multiboot's" header as a part of "Multiboot project". Multib

Re: how can I boot xp with grub? How to load ntldr?

2006-11-27 Thread zhihang wang
ok. Thank you very much. On 11/28/06, Andrei E. Warkentin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Shouldn't have done that. I'm assuming "sys" here is from Win9X or DOS. The bootsector provided by NT looks for a file in the root of the partition called "ntldr", which in turn looks for "boot.ini" "ntdetect.c

Re: how can I boot xp with grub? How to load ntldr?

2006-11-27 Thread Andrei E. Warkentin
Shouldn't have done that. I'm assuming "sys" here is from Win9X or DOS. The bootsector provided by NT looks for a file in the root of the partition called "ntldr", which in turn looks for "boot.ini" "ntdetect.com", and (obviously) ntoskrnl.exe and the initial drivers loaded. Basically, if

Re: how can I boot xp with grub? How to load ntldr?

2006-11-27 Thread zhihang wang
Hi ,Coly: Thank you for your answer. I have used the command sys a: c: then when I boot from the harddisk, an error occure "missing operation system" Then I boot from my flash disk and enter the grub grub>root (hd0,0) grub>makeactive grub>chainloader +1 grub>boot then I entered the DOS. How can

Re: ping (update-grub2)

2006-11-27 Thread Vincent Pelletier
Le lundi 27 novembre 2006 18:00, Robert Millan a écrit : > No comments? Are you interested in getting this into the main grub tree? > In my opinion, since update-grub needs a rewrite it's a good oportunity to > merge this now and unify grub.cfg generation across distributions > (something that was

when I install grub on ubuntu ,why I get the following error?

2006-11-27 Thread zhihang wang
sudo grub-install /dev/hda --modules=ext2 --root-directory=/boot grub-probefs: error: Cannot get the real path of `/dev/fd0' grub-setup: error: Cannot get the real path of `/dev/fd0' I boot my pc from my flash disk. -- Best Regards zhihang wang ___ Gru

ping (update-grub2)

2006-11-27 Thread Robert Millan
No comments? Are you interested in getting this into the main grub tree? In my opinion, since update-grub needs a rewrite it's a good oportunity to merge this now and unify grub.cfg generation across distributions (something that wasn't possible with the old update-grub because of copyright issue

Re: how can I boot xp with grub? How to load ntldr?

2006-11-27 Thread colyli
Wang: in the grub shell, type: >chainloader +1 >boot this will help you to boot the xp. BTW, maybe you need to re-install the grub in your ubuntu. Coly 在 2006-11-27一的 18:06 +0800,zhihang wang写道: > Nobody? > > On 11/23/06, zhihang wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are something w

Re: how can I boot xp with grub? How to load ntldr?

2006-11-27 Thread zhihang wang
Nobody? On 11/23/06, zhihang wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There are something wrong with my mbr information. I installed xp on (hd0,0), ubuntu on (hd0,1). Now I can't boot my pc directly from the hardisk. I can only boot it from my flash (u) disk. Because there is a grub for dos on my flash