problems with netboot

2002-05-20 Thread Sean Burlington
I am having trouble getting grub to work in netboot mode I downloaded grub0.92 and ran /configure --prefix=/home/sean/tmp --enable-3c509 make make install cd /home/sean/tmp i then took a floppy formated it mkdir -p /mnt/floppy/boot/grub cp -v ./share/grub/i386-pc/* /mnt/floppy/boot/grub/

Re: load_end == bss_end == -1

2002-05-20 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
At Wed, 15 May 2002 14:19:00 +0300, Yuri Zaporogets wrote: New patch fixes this problem; I've tested it before sending :) . Excuse me for the inconvenience. No problem. I'll check in your patch, as nobody has objected. Thanks, Okuji ___ Bug-grub

Re: GRUB fails to boot Win98

2002-05-20 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
Could you test the official version 0.92? If this also fails, we'd need your assistance to debug GRUB. Thanks, Okuji ___ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub

Re: GRUB Linux Headers (2.5.16)

2002-05-20 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
At Sun, 19 May 2002 00:02:42 -0700, Vasili Sviridov wrote: I think that problem maybe lies in new header files, but maybe you know the solution... It seems that now is the time when GRUB should stop including any kernel headers. I'll fix the problem soon. (Uggh... If Linux doesn't allow us

Re: GRUB Linux Headers (2.5.16)

2002-05-20 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
At Mon, 20 May 2002 18:32:26 +0900, Yoshinori K. Okuji [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems that now is the time when GRUB should stop including any kernel headers. I'll fix the problem soon. Done. Please test the CVS version. Okuji ___ Bug-grub

Re: problems with netboot

2002-05-20 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
At Mon, 20 May 2002 09:38:53 +0100, Sean Burlington wrote: I downloaded grub0.92 and ran /configure --prefix=/home/sean/tmp --enable-3c509 make make install cd /home/sean/tmp i then took a floppy formated it mkdir -p /mnt/floppy/boot/grub cp -v ./share/grub/i386-pc/*

Re: boot floppy fails on different machine

2002-05-20 Thread Florian Hatat
Le lundi 20 mai 2002, Yoshinori K. Okuji scripta: However, I wouldn't be surprised even if GRUB doesn't work with 486, as I haven't tested it with 486 at all (simply because I have no 486). Does anyone use GRUB with 486 with no problem? GRUB works on 386. It should on a 486. -- Florian,

Re: boot floppy fails on different machine

2002-05-20 Thread Alex Thiel
Peter, sounds like your old BIOS has problems with the way the floppy is probed in stage1. Thierry Laronde has done a complete rewrite of the stage1 code. The patch can be found at http://alpha.polynum.org/misc/grub-0.92.a_cd+ef.diff.gz I haven't tried the patch myself, but it seems to handle

Re: 512MB limit Was: Re: boot floppy fails on different machine

2002-05-20 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
At Mon, 20 May 2002 12:16:33 +0200, Hans-Christian Armingeon wrote: I am using grub on my 486 Laptop, and it works great. The only problem is the BIOS. I can't access partitions over the 512 MB limit. Thanks for your information. You relieved me. :) Will there be a possibility to go around

Re: 512MB limit

2002-05-20 Thread Yuri Zaporogets
Hello Okuji, On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 08:40:18PM +0900, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: Unfortunately no, since GRUB is tied with BIOS. A solution is to write a device driver so that GRUB can interact with your hard disk directly rather than via BIOS, but I doubt if that is worth doing. In my

[PATCH] bootstrapping NT with grub tweak

2002-05-20 Thread Jeremy Katz
This was originally reported in Red Hat's bugzilla as https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=65034 by [EMAIL PROTECTED] To quote the original bug report The version of grub included with RH 7.3 won't boot windows NT 4.0 SP3 on my system. NT boot fails with bluescreen

Re: GRUB fails to boot Win98

2002-05-20 Thread Graham Smith
Okuji, I have now tried all of the following: GRUB 0.91 (standard release without any RedHat patches) GRUB 0.91 (with RedHat patches as per RedHat 7.3) GRUB 0.92 (standard release) I have tried using all these versions from boot floppy and from hard disk both with stage1 installed in MBR of

Re: [PATCH] bootstrapping NT with grub tweak

2002-05-20 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
At 20 May 2002 16:40:15 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote: The reporter attached the following patch which says improves the situation for them. Any comments? I think the change is fine for MBR, because other boot loaders (such as LILO) follow the manner. But I'm not sure what happens when installing