Re: [PATCH] Improve documentation of BIOS installation

2011-03-30 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 29/03/11 16:12, Colin Watson wrote: On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 02:11:45PM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 29/03/11 13:40, Colin Watson wrote: +(called by +various names, such as the boot track, MBR gap, or embedding area, and +which is usually at least 31 KiB), Maybe mention the original

Re: [PATCH] Improve documentation of BIOS installation

2011-03-29 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 29/03/11 13:40, Colin Watson wrote: +@node BIOS installation +@section BIOS installation This is a good summary. +(called by +various names, such as the boot track, MBR gap, or embedding area, and +which is usually at least 31 KiB), Maybe mention the original name/reason; DOS

Re: grub2 architecture

2010-03-23 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 23/03/10 07:00, yu.haife...@zte.com.cn wrote: I am a newboy,I want to join the designing,but I donn't known the grub2'architecture, despite of having reading most of the code of the grub legacy. Aynone can help me? A very old high level summary (wow grub2 is in dev a long time)

Re: UEFI. Running grub only once functionality

2010-02-03 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 03/02/10 10:04, George Buranov wrote: Hello everybody. #inbox I got situation: I need to load linux kernel from grub, that can easily fail on some computers (even in production). I use grub to load this and the only this kernel. So, what I want to do is to load another OS loader, if grub (or

Re: help to understand grub steps

2007-10-10 Thread Pádraig Brady
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello everyone! i have a few questions about grub steps! i know that when i start the pc: 1-the cpu loads the bios 2-bios controls that every component is functional and loads the stage 1 that is stored in the MBR 3-stage 1 loads the stage 2 that is stored somewhere

Re: making grub completely silent

2006-06-09 Thread Pádraig Brady
Mario Emmenlauer wrote: Hello, this is a continued thread from [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have taken it here (thanks Jerome) where it seems to suit better. A short abstract: I'd like to have an option to make grub be less verbose. I was thinking about an numeric verbosity level that would