Re: Patch for boot message

2007-08-12 Thread Mischa Spiegelmock
Robert Millan wrote: On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 11:18:55PM -0700, Mischa Spiegelmock wrote: I got sick of grub saying "The highlighted entry will be booted automatically in 1 seconds." Here's a patch: Index: normal/menu.c === RCS

Using GRUB2 for booting from CD

2007-08-12 Thread Alex Roman
Hello list, I've managed to (finally :( ) use GRUB2 as a bootloader on a CD-ROM. It loads the kernel and all modules I tell grub-mkimage to include. The problem is that it doens't know how to mount the root to be able to load other modules, read configuration files, etc. There is an iso9660 alrea

Re: rescue mode

2007-08-12 Thread Alex Roman
On 12/08/07, Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 10:19:14AM -0400, Alex Roman wrote: > > Is there any way to find out what is causing GRUB2 to enter rescue mode? > > I generally try to get normal.mod loaded by hand, and in the process usually > something preventing th

proposed solution using "ofpathname -a" (Re: OF disk naming scheme)

2007-08-12 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 10:25:05PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > AFAIK we can only read the full OF path from /proc (with helper tools like > ofpath / ofpathname), but not the short alias which grub uses. These can only > be obtained when grub is running. > > If the proposed solution is not go

Re: pending patches

2007-08-12 Thread Robert Millan
Hi Okuji! Sorry for the late reply. I don't have much time lately either.. ;-) On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 09:26:31PM +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > Hello, > > As you know, I am quite inactive these days, and haven't dealt with pending > patches at all. But I am willing to solve them as soon

Re: Patch for boot message

2007-08-12 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 11:18:55PM -0700, Mischa Spiegelmock wrote: > I got sick of grub saying "The highlighted entry will be booted > automatically in 1 seconds." > > Here's a patch: > > Index: normal/menu.c > === > RCS file: /sou

Re: rescue mode

2007-08-12 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 10:19:14AM -0400, Alex Roman wrote: > Is there any way to find out what is causing GRUB2 to enter rescue mode? I generally try to get normal.mod loaded by hand, and in the process usually something preventing that is found, which reveals the cause. I'm not sure if there's

Re: grub-setup Segmentation fault

2007-08-12 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 05:08:18AM +0200, Magnus Granberg wrote: > >Sounds like I made the wrong guess, then. You need to figure out where's > >that null pointer coming from. Doesn't seem to be root_dev.. > > #1 0x08049385 in setup (prefix=0x80670b0 "(md0)(vg-boot)/grub", > dir=0x8067008 "/boot

rescue mode

2007-08-12 Thread Alex Roman
Is there any way to find out what is causing GRUB2 to enter rescue mode? Thanks! -- Alex Roman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel