Re: questions about relocator16.S

2018-08-15 Thread Cao jin
Sorry I don't see reply in time because I am not on the TO or CC list. On 08/14/2018 04:36 PM, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > > > вт, 14 авг. 2018 г., 9:11 Cao jin <mailto:caoj.f...@cn.fujitsu.com>>: > > Hi, > >   I am learning the

Re: questions about relocator16.S

2018-08-14 Thread Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
вт, 14 авг. 2018 г., 9:11 Cao jin : > Hi, > > I am learning these code, and now have 2 questions: > > 1. at the bottom of relocator_common.S, there is: > > LOCAL(jump_vector): > /* Jump location. Is filled by the code */ > .long 0 > .long

questions about relocator16.S

2018-08-14 Thread Cao jin
Hi, I am learning these code, and now have 2 questions: 1. at the bottom of relocator_common.S, there is: LOCAL(jump_vector): /* Jump location. Is filled by the code */ .long 0 .long CODE_SEGMENT Since it is offset & segment selector value, why is not &q

RE: Questions about grub_video_set_mode()

2018-08-10 Thread Dexuan Cui
ld be one way to > go. Something like below for `/etc/default/grub`. > > GRUB_TERMINAL="console serial" > GRUB_SERIAL_COMMAND="serial --unit=0 --speed=115200" This serial port works very well for me. Thanks for sharing the trick! > > Paul About my original questions, it

Re: Questions about grub_video_set_mode()

2018-08-09 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Dexuan, Am Mittwoch, den 08.08.2018, 00:23 + schrieb Dexuan Cui: > I'm debugging a strange grub2 issue in a Linux Virtual Machine > running on Hyper-V. […] > 4. What's the best way to debug grub_video_set_mode()? > grub_dprintf() can't output anything in this function. Why? Because

Questions about grub_video_set_mode()

2018-08-07 Thread Dexuan Cui
) returns GRUB_VIDEO_DRIVER_NONE, and grub_linux_setup_video() returns immediately, so params->lfb_base remains with the defaule zero value! Questions: 1. What's the point of "grub_memset (&mode_info, 0, sizeof (mode_info))" here? It's a local variable and nobody really uses it.

Re: A few questions about GRUB 2

2014-06-02 Thread Andrey Borzenkov
В Tue, 6 May 2014 21:28:31 +0530 Shriramana Sharma пишет: >> > With the GRUB 2 coming with Kubuntu Trusty, I observe that > menu_color_* only apply to the primary menu and not to the secondary > menu, where only color_* are applied. > > 3) Is this behaviour intentional? Calling it "menu_*" seem

A few questions about GRUB 2

2014-05-06 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Hello. I am asking this here since I intend to submit a patch for GRUB (in the scripting and documentation, not the C code) and wanted to clear up a few things before that. 1) What is the JPEG support status of GRUB? https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2/Displays says JPEGs should be only 256 co

Re: Questions about booting Linux kernel using AARCH64 GRUB

2014-03-13 Thread Leif Lindholm
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 09:41:32AM +0400, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > > > 3. If question 2 were true, how to solve this problem? Do I have to tweak > > > zImage to PE format? > > > > The answer to all three questions is actually the same: > > > > You are c

Re: Questions about booting Linux kernel using AARCH64 GRUB

2014-03-12 Thread Andrey Borzenkov
В Wed, 12 Mar 2014 10:50:59 + Leif Lindholm пишет: > Hi Cedric, > > On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 11:00:43AM +0800, 林揆斌 wrote: > > I got some questions about the routine "grub_linux_boot" in > > "grub-core/loader/ > > arm64/linux.c&

Re: Questions about booting Linux kernel using AARCH64 GRUB

2014-03-12 Thread 林揆斌
Hi Leif, Thanks for your answering, that really helped me a lot! I will enable CONFIG_EFI_STUB and try again. Best Regards, Cedric On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 6:50 PM, Leif Lindholm wrote: > Hi Cedric, > > On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 11:00:43AM +0800, 林揆斌 wrote: > > I got some ques

Re: Questions about booting Linux kernel using AARCH64 GRUB

2014-03-12 Thread Leif Lindholm
Hi Cedric, On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 11:00:43AM +0800, 林揆斌 wrote: > I got some questions about the routine "grub_linux_boot" in "grub-core/loader/ > arm64/linux.c" > from master branch of this repo: "git://git.savannah.gnu.org/grub.git" and > would like

Questions about booting Linux kernel using AARCH64 GRUB

2014-03-12 Thread 林揆斌
Dear Leif: I got some questions about the routine "grub_linux_boot" in "grub-core/loader/arm64/linux.c" from master branch of this repo: "git://git.savannah.gnu.org/grub.git" and would like your help. The questions are as follows: 1. From my understanding,

Re: 2 quick questions

2013-11-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Nov 09, 2013 at 08:42:56AM -0700, Gerard Butler wrote: > Is it possible to pass a command to a Linux based OS? So for instance > I select Ubuntu or Fedora and I tell it to run some script as soon as > it boots and I can put this comand in the menuentry. You can put whatever you like on the

2 quick questions

2013-11-09 Thread Gerard Butler
Is it possible to pass a command to a Linux based OS? So for instance I select Ubuntu or Fedora and I tell it to run some script as soon as it boots and I can put this comand in the menuentry. My second question is that is it possible to control navigation within GRUB using a joystick? I know it

RE: Some questions about GRUB

2013-08-16 Thread Stojsavljevic, Zoran
Hello Vladimir, Two things: when I tried to auto generate latest grub-5107 , I got while doing make the following error: [zoran@localhost grub-5107]$ ./autogen.sh [zoran@localhost grub-5107]./configure --with-platform=coreboot --prefix=/usr/local --sysconfdir=/etc [zoran@localhost grub-5107]mak

Re: Some questions about GRUB

2013-08-14 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 14.08.2013 16:14, Stojsavljevic, Zoran wrote: Hello Vladimir, Could you, please, explain to me bit more how I can try with qemu? I am novice with GRUB, but lot of experience with Open Source. There is qemu port of coreboot. I'd try with this. Zoran ___ Most of The Time you should be “

RE: Some questions about GRUB

2013-08-14 Thread Stojsavljevic, Zoran
Hello Vladimir, Could you, please, explain to me bit more how I can try with qemu? I am novice with GRUB, but lot of experience with Open Source. Zoran ___ Most of The Time you should be “intel inside” to be capable to think “out of the box”. -Original Message- I don't see anything

Re: Some questions about GRUB

2013-08-14 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 14.08.2013 15:38, Stojsavljevic, Zoran wrote: Hello Vladimir, Again me… This time with more precise info. I managed to download GNU bazaar bzr and upgrade my Fedora 18 VM with this package. Then I executed the command: bzr branch http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/grub/trunk/grub And downloaded

Some questions about GRUB

2013-08-14 Thread Stojsavljevic, Zoran
Hello Vladimir, Again me... This time with more precise info. I managed to download GNU bazaar bzr and upgrade my Fedora 18 VM with this package. Then I executed the command: bzr branch http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/grub/trunk/grub And downloaded latest GRUB 5091 source code tree revision, as y

RE: Some questions about GRUB

2013-08-13 Thread Stojsavljevic, Zoran
o:grub-devel-bounces+zoran.stojsavljevic=intel@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Stojsavljevic, Zoran Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 11:54 AM To: The development of GNU GRUB; Vladimir 'f-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko Subject: RE: Some questions about GRUB Hello Vladimir, I managed to download GNU bazaa

RE: Some questions about GRUB

2013-08-13 Thread Stojsavljevic, Zoran
Hello Vladimir, I managed to download GNU bazaar bzr and upgrade my Fedora 18 VM with this package. Then I executed the command: bzr branch http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/grub/trunk/grub And downloaded latest GRUB 5091 source code tree revision, as you pointed to me: http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/l

Re: Some questions about GRUB

2013-07-25 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
evic=intel@gnu.org [mailto:grub-devel-bounces+zoran.stojsavljevic=intel@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Vladimir 'f-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 6:21 PM To: The development of GNU GRUB Subject: Re: Some questions about GRUB On 24.07.2013 15:56, Stojsavljevic,

RE: Some questions about GRUB

2013-07-25 Thread Stojsavljevic, Zoran
t; to be capable to think "out of the box". -Original Message- From: grub-devel-bounces+zoran.stojsavljevic=intel@gnu.org [mailto:grub-devel-bounces+zoran.stojsavljevic=intel@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Vladimir 'f-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko Sent: Wednesday, July 24

Re: Some questions about GRUB

2013-07-24 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 24.07.2013 18:30, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: В Wed, 24 Jul 2013 18:20:46 +0200 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko пишет: On 24.07.2013 15:56, Stojsavljevic, Zoran wrote: Spasibo/Thank you, Andrey, I understand. I am not able to set VGA mode somehow on Coreboot. I got the file core.elf af

Re: Some questions about GRUB

2013-07-24 Thread Andrey Borzenkov
В Wed, 24 Jul 2013 18:20:46 +0200 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko пишет: > On 24.07.2013 15:56, Stojsavljevic, Zoran wrote: > > Spasibo/Thank you, Andrey, > > > > I understand. I am not able to set VGA mode somehow on Coreboot. I got the > > file core.elf after doing grub-install command (

Re: Some questions about GRUB

2013-07-24 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 24.07.2013 15:56, Stojsavljevic, Zoran wrote: Spasibo/Thank you, Andrey, I understand. I am not able to set VGA mode somehow on Coreboot. I got the file core.elf after doing grub-install command (in /boot/grub/i386-coreboot/ directory), so I am using this file as a payload to Coreboot (have

Some questions about GRUB

2013-07-24 Thread Stojsavljevic, Zoran
Spasibo/Thank you, Andrey, I understand. I am not able to set VGA mode somehow on Coreboot. I got the file core.elf after doing grub-install command (in /boot/grub/i386-coreboot/ directory), so I am using this file as a payload to Coreboot (have no idea if this is the correct approach)!? What

Re: Configure options questions

2012-03-20 Thread jlcenter
- Original Message - From: "Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko" To: grub-devel@gnu.org Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 6:33:56 AM Subject: Re: Configure options questions On 20.03.2012 03:59, jlcen...@comcast.net wrote: > various modules Exact error message?

Re: Configure options questions

2012-03-20 Thread jlcenter
- Original Message - From: "Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko" To: grub-devel@gnu.org Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 10:50:31 AM Subject: Re: Configure options questions On 20.03.2012 15:41, jlcen...@comcast.net wrote: > > - Original Message -

Re: Configure options questions

2012-03-20 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 20.03.2012 15:52, jlcen...@comcast.net wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko" > To: grub-devel@gnu.org > Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 10:36:07 AM > Subject: Re: Configure options questions > > On

Re: Configure options questions

2012-03-20 Thread jlcenter
- Original Message - From: "Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko" To: grub-devel@gnu.org Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 10:36:07 AM Subject: Re: Configure options questions On 20.03.2012 15:16, jlcen...@comcast.net wrote: > > - Original Message -

Re: Configure options questions

2012-03-20 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 20.03.2012 15:41, jlcen...@comcast.net wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko" > To: grub-devel@gnu.org > Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 10:31:49 AM > Subject: Re: Configure options questions > > On

Re: Configure options questions

2012-03-20 Thread jlcenter
- Original Message - From: "Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko" To: grub-devel@gnu.org Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 10:31:49 AM Subject: Re: Configure options questions On 20.03.2012 15:16, jlcen...@comcast.net wrote: > Unfortunately, the messages scrolled

Re: Configure options questions

2012-03-20 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 20.03.2012 15:16, jlcen...@comcast.net wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko" > To: grub-devel@gnu.org > Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 6:33:56 AM > Subject: Re: Configure options questions > > On

Re: Configure options questions

2012-03-20 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 20.03.2012 15:16, jlcen...@comcast.net wrote: > Unfortunately, the messages scrolled by so quickly I wasn't able to see which > ones. In /etc/default/grub, I had added: > > GRUB_PRELOAD_MODULES="raid mdraid1x part_gpt btrfs" Very unlikely. > I think it was these. They were added to grub.cfg b

Re: Configure options questions

2012-03-20 Thread jlcenter
- Original Message - From: "Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko" To: grub-devel@gnu.org Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 6:33:56 AM Subject: Re: Configure options questions On 20.03.2012 03:59, jlcen...@comcast.net wrote: > various modules Exact error messa

Re: Configure options questions

2012-03-20 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 20.03.2012 03:59, jlcen...@comcast.net wrote: various modules Exact error message? -- Regards Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Configure options questions

2012-03-19 Thread jlcenter
Hi, I built the latest version of grub with the following configure options: ./configure --prefix=/ --exec-prefix=/usr --datarootdir=/usr/share --program-prefix="" This seemed like this matched the Ubuntu locations. I ran grub-install & it reconfigured the old /boot/grub directory like this:

Re: Questions regarding bzr Install Branch

2010-09-12 Thread KESHAV P.R.
> > I implemented --bootloader-id in install branch. > I tried the updated install branch (branch rev 2045). There is a problem with the --bootloader-id option lines 193 and 194 of util/grub-install.in --bootloader_id=*) bootloader_id=`echo "$option" | sed 's/--bootloader_id=//'` ;; It

Re: Questions regarding bzr Install Branch

2010-09-09 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 09/04/10 11:27, KESHAV P.R. wrote: How to detect whether a system has booted using (U)EFI and if so what is the efi processor arch? This is not only for the grub-install script but also the configure script. Most of systems supporting EFI also support BIOS. Also some users like me have a

Re: Questions regarding bzr Install Branch

2010-09-08 Thread KESHAV P.R.
Sorry for the late reply. How about implementing grub-probe support for efisys atleast in linux systems. Linux has fairly mature UEFI support, while FreeBSD and OpenSolaris are set to implement efi support (in which case grub2 will be their default boot manager). A new "parttype-guid" search option

Re: Questions regarding bzr Install Branch

2010-09-04 Thread Seth Goldberg
Hi, Great question-- the answer is: this will be very OS-specific. --S On Sep 4, 2010, at 2:27 AM, "KESHAV P.R." wrote: > How to detect whether a system has booted using (U)EFI and if so what > is the efi processor arch? This is not only for the grub-install > script but also the configure

Questions regarding bzr Install Branch

2010-09-04 Thread KESHAV P.R.
How to detect whether a system has booted using (U)EFI and if so what is the efi processor arch? This is not only for the grub-install script but also the configure script. If configure is run in a non-Apple UEFI system (mostly x86_64-efi and without bios compatibility) configure still sets up the

Re: GRUB and USB questions

2010-08-26 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
10:10 PM, Sarah Sharp wrote: > I have a couple of questions about how GRUB handles USB. I'm a Linux > kernel developer, not a GRUB developer, so please bare with me. :) > > I heard that GRUB does not support EHCI host controllers yet. Is > that still true? There is one pers

GRUB and USB questions

2010-08-26 Thread Sarah Sharp
I have a couple of questions about how GRUB handles USB. I'm a Linux kernel developer, not a GRUB developer, so please bare with me. :) I heard that GRUB does not support EHCI host controllers yet. Is that still true? If so, how does GRUB work on the newer Intel chipsets with rate mat

Re: Questions for writing manpages

2008-01-31 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 23:28 +0200, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: > >> echo (${root}) > > ( hd0,1 ) > >> ls (${root}) > > error: unknown device > > Is there a reason why root does not contain (hd0,1) (in this case) > > I think there was once change related to ()'s in codebase... perhaps > this was "b

Re: Questions for writing manpages

2008-01-31 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
echo (${root}) ( hd0,1 ) ls (${root}) error: unknown device Is there a reason why root does not contain (hd0,1) (in this case) I think there was once change related to ()'s in codebase... perhaps this was "broken" accidently? ___ Grub-devel mai

Re: Questions for writing manpages

2008-01-31 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 00:45 +0100, Franklin PIAT wrote: > It seems that variable expansion adds a space before and after the variable's > value. > Since the test must be "A=B", without space, results seems to be wrong > (unless i'm doing something wrong). Sorry for my previous clueless reply.

Re: Questions for writing manpages

2008-01-31 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 05:43:03PM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote: > > ** How would you define the "rescue" mode ? In what situation > > can it be useful to the user ? > > I think the idea was to move most interactivity to a separate module > called normal. If that module is not available, the intern

Re: Questions for writing manpages

2008-01-31 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 12:45:25AM +0100, Franklin PIAT wrote: > > > ** How would you define the "rescue" mode ? In what situation > > > can it be useful to the user ? > > > > Only when something breaks. For example, when GRUB can't load normal.mod > > (and its associated modules), it dumps you

Re: Questions for writing manpages

2008-01-30 Thread Franklin PIAT
On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 23:29 +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 11:13:50PM +0100, Franklin PIAT wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have some questions for the writing the documentation[1]. > > > > ** How to use "If [ $x=foo ] Then Else fi" s

Re: Questions for writing manpages

2008-01-30 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 23:13 +0100, Franklin PIAT wrote: > Hello, > > I have some questions for the writing the documentation[1]. > > ** How to use "If [ $x=foo ] Then Else fi" statement ? > > I've successfully used : > if [ A=B ] ; then echo "foo

Re: Questions for writing manpages

2008-01-30 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 11:13:50PM +0100, Franklin PIAT wrote: > Hello, > > I have some questions for the writing the documentation[1]. > > ** How to use "If [ $x=foo ] Then Else fi" statement ? > > I've successfully used : > if [ A=B ] ; then echo &q

Questions for writing manpages

2008-01-30 Thread Franklin PIAT
Hello, I have some questions for the writing the documentation[1]. ** How to use "If [ $x=foo ] Then Else fi" statement ? I've successfully used : if [ A=B ] ; then echo "foo" ; else echo "bar" ; fi" But I cannot use variables, with either : if [ $

Re: ata.mod hangs (Re: Some grub2 problems/questions)

2008-01-15 Thread Marco Gerards
Vesa Jääskeläinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Robert Millan wrote: >> On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 04:14:38PM -0800, walt wrote: >>> Unfortunately, ata.mod still doesn't recognize the disk on the Promise >>> sata controller. But, that's expected at this point? >> >> Yes. Some SATA controllers emula

Re: ata.mod hangs (Re: Some grub2 problems/questions)

2008-01-13 Thread walt
Robert Millan wrote: On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 04:14:38PM -0800, walt wrote: I'm happy to report that the ata module no longer hangs as I described above. I'm guessing (just a guess) that this commit fixed it: 2008-01-10 Robert Millan<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * kern/device.c (grub_device_iterate

Re: ata.mod hangs (Re: Some grub2 problems/questions)

2008-01-13 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Robert Millan wrote: On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 04:14:38PM -0800, walt wrote: Unfortunately, ata.mod still doesn't recognize the disk on the Promise sata controller. But, that's expected at this point? Yes. Some SATA controllers emulate PATA, but not all do. I suppose there are multiple contr

Re: ata.mod hangs (Re: Some grub2 problems/questions)

2008-01-13 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 04:14:38PM -0800, walt wrote: > > I'm happy to report that the ata module no longer hangs as I described > above. I'm guessing (just a guess) that this commit fixed it: > > 2008-01-10 Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * kern/device.c (grub_device_iterate): Do not

Re: ata.mod hangs (Re: Some grub2 problems/questions)

2008-01-12 Thread walt
Robert Millan wrote: On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 09:33:58AM -0800, walt wrote: The other Athlon machine has one PATA drive on a VIA 8235 controller and one SATA drive on a Promise controller. This machine makes it through grub_ata_dumpinfo for both disks but then it hangs forever without printing a

ata.mod hangs (Re: Some grub2 problems/questions)

2007-12-30 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 09:33:58AM -0800, walt wrote: > >>The other Athlon machine has one PATA drive on a VIA 8235 controller > >>and one SATA drive on a Promise controller. This machine makes it > >>through grub_ata_dumpinfo for both disks but then it hangs forever > >>without printing anything

Re: Some grub2 problems/questions

2007-12-27 Thread walt
Robert Millan wrote: On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 12:26:03PM -0800, walt wrote: ... The first machine has two ordinary PATA drives on a VIA 8235 controller and grub2 complains that the firmware is tainted. Grub2 will use (ata1) okay and lists all the partitions, Nice. Is that controller in the P

Re: Some grub2 problems/questions

2007-12-27 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 11:05:53AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 12:26:03PM -0800, walt wrote: > > Hi grub group. > > > > Beginning with the commits of 2007-10-31 my two Athlon machines won't > > work properly with grub2, and I'd like to find out why. > > It's a known prob

Re: Some grub2 problems/questions

2007-12-27 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 12:26:03PM -0800, walt wrote: > Hi grub group. > > Beginning with the commits of 2007-10-31 my two Athlon machines won't > work properly with grub2, and I'd like to find out why. It's a known problem. That's when we added the ATA driver. If you don't include ata.mod in y

Some grub2 problems/questions

2007-12-26 Thread walt
Hi grub group. Beginning with the commits of 2007-10-31 my two Athlon machines won't work properly with grub2, and I'd like to find out why. The first machine has two ordinary PATA drives on a VIA 8235 controller and grub2 complains that the firmware is tainted. Grub2 will use (ata1) okay and l

Re: pager (Re: grub2 miscelanea questions (1/2))

2007-06-08 Thread Marco Gerards
adrian15 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Marco Gerards escribió: set pager=1 >> How about setting it to 0 by default, so it shows up when you list the >> variables. Currently it just doesn't exist. > > That's a good idea. > Where is the place (file) for setting default variables values? In th

Re: pager (Re: grub2 miscelanea questions (1/2))

2007-06-08 Thread adrian15
Marco Gerards escribió: set pager=1 How about setting it to 0 by default, so it shows up when you list the variables. Currently it just doesn't exist. That's a good idea. Where is the place (file) for setting default variables values? adrian15 __

Re: pager (Re: grub2 miscelanea questions (1/2))

2007-06-08 Thread Marco Gerards
Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 08:26:35PM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: >> > 5.1) pager >> > - >> > >> > When I want to do a big ls the output does not stop screen by screen... >> > Is there any hidden pager that I do not know? >> > Maybe is not imple

Re: grub2 miscelanea questions (2/2)

2007-06-07 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 09:35:10AM +0200, adrian15 wrote: > 23) set read only variables > == > unset prefix lets me "delete" the prefix variable. > unset root does not let me the "root" variable. > > I remember that bash has an option to set read only variables. > Maybe

Re: grub2 miscelanea questions (1/2)

2007-06-07 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 09:34:55AM +0200, adrian15 wrote: > 6) Compulsory Argument dilemma > > If I run help I can seen things like this: > > ls [-f|-l|-s] NAME > > and > > [ EXPRESSION ] > > > If [ ] means optional it should also mean optional in t

pager (Re: grub2 miscelanea questions (1/2))

2007-06-07 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 08:26:35PM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: > > 5.1) pager > > - > > > > When I want to do a big ls the output does not stop screen by screen... > > Is there any hidden pager that I do not know? > > Maybe is not implemented yet? > > set pager=1 > > It just isn't doc

grub2 miscelanea questions #2

2007-06-07 Thread adrian15
1) search command file not found: = If you search for an inexistant file like: search -f /boot/grub/und-video it complains: error: no such device Shouldn't it be: error: no such file /boot/grub/und-video I mean i

Re: grub2 miscelanea questions (2/2)

2007-06-06 Thread adrian15
19) rescue and exit failure on qemu == I think that booting from my computer does not give this error. If I boot from QEMU and type: grub> rescue and then : grub rescue> exit it says: FATAL: INT18: BOOT FAILURE Weird. Can you debug this? I've checked this again.

Re: grub2 miscelanea questions (1/2)

2007-06-06 Thread adrian15
3) Why any grub2.cfg file (I suppose it's the substitute for menu.lst) is inside the grub2 source code? What do you mean? Usually a program should include examples on how to use their files and document examples and so on... why isn't there any grub2.cfg ? 4) Why any doc folder is inside the

Re: grub2 miscelanea questions (2/2)

2007-06-05 Thread Marco Gerards
adrian15 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Comes from grub2 miscelanea questions (1/2) > > > 14) help linux > = > Usage: linux FILE [ARGS...] > Load a linux kernel. > > I think that a message telling the user that the ARGS are arguments for > the l

Re: grub2 miscelanea questions (1/2)

2007-06-05 Thread Marco Gerards
adrian15 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Dear grub2 developers, here there are some questions about grub2 that I > have that would have generated too many little emails. > > 1)lst files on a grub2 floppy > == > > As I

grub2 miscelanea questions (2/2)

2007-06-04 Thread adrian15
Comes from grub2 miscelanea questions (1/2) 14) help linux = Usage: linux FILE [ARGS...] Load a linux kernel. I think that a message telling the user that the ARGS are arguments for the linux kernel instead of arguments for the grub's linux command would be a good idea.

grub2 miscelanea questions (1/2)

2007-06-04 Thread adrian15
Dear grub2 developers, here there are some questions about grub2 that I have that would have generated too many little emails. 1)lst files on a grub2 floppy == As I told you in another email, in order to build my grub2 floppy I did a soft

VbE and eltorito questions

2006-05-02 Thread Gerardo Richarte
eo mode (exactly what I need). However, I didn't find how to make an ISO image with GRUB2 (allowing me to load a 20MB module, which evidently doesn't feet in a floppy image :-) I have a few questions, any would solve my problem, but some will not let me implement video mode selection f

Some questions towards the boo tsequence

2005-04-01 Thread Matthias-Christian Ott
Hi! I'm currently developing a small OS. But I have some questions towards the boot sequence: Grub (0.9.6) is installed in the MBR of the Harddisk (512 Byte - Stage 1) than grub loads Stage 2 which is located at a fixed address (specified in stage1.h), but who is this location linked an

Re: Questions

2005-03-16 Thread Tobias Wollgam
misinformation is not directly from RedHat, but have a look at: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/39/2004/07/3/207616 ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: Questions

2005-03-11 Thread Peter Jones
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 19:35 +0100, Tobias Wollgam wrote: > Hi. > > If I google for grub2 I find some places where it seams that grub2 is > used in distributions like Fedora and SuSE. Could this be true? Fedora and RHEL certainly don't, though we are monitoring development fairly closely and do p

Re: Questions

2005-03-11 Thread Marco Gerards
Tobias Wollgam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi. > > If I google for grub2 I find some places where it seams that grub2 is > used in distributions like Fedora and SuSE. Could this be true? It sounds like someone is really confused or just called the hacked GRUB they distribute GRUB 2. > If I bu

Questions

2005-03-10 Thread Tobias Wollgam
Hi. If I google for grub2 I find some places where it seams that grub2 is used in distributions like Fedora and SuSE. Could this be true? If I build the current cvs version of grub2 I got some pxe stuff. Does it work? How can I test it? If I would start with network support how to begin? Does