Re: Using label for Grub root (*not* os root)

2007-02-19 Thread Jason Thomas
Everybody, No new functionality will be added to Grub Legacy! On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 01:31:22AM -0800, Roger Binns wrote: If your patches will end up in the main grub legacy code so that my distro of choice (Gentoo) will end up picking them up then I'll gladly do the research about how to

Re: Bug patch for mkbimage: response requested for Debian bug #352731

2006-12-06 Thread Jason Thomas
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Re: Error 18

2006-07-18 Thread Jason Thomas
. What's going on? How can I troubleshoot further? Please Cc: me, I'm not on the list. Thanks Alexey ___ Bug-grub mailing list Bug-grub@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub -- Jason

Re: Error 18

2006-07-18 Thread Jason Thomas
Yes that might work, but I've never tried it. On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 11:21:18PM +, Alexey Toptygin wrote: On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Jason Thomas wrote: The drive is too big for the PC. Use a smaller drive for /boot. So this is a BIOS bug? You are saying that the BIOS I have has the 504MiB

Re: verry urgent

2006-01-31 Thread Jason Thomas
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Re: help please

2005-12-20 Thread Jason Thomas
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Re: Bug Report for Grub

2005-09-13 Thread Jason Thomas
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bug#318539: grub: FTBFS: Invalid storage class for function]

2005-08-07 Thread Jason Thomas
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Re: Grub breaks at auto-kernel update with spalshscreen

2005-07-18 Thread Jason Thomas
the first splashimage entry is one that you must have added. The second one added after an update-grub is auto generated because it found a splash image. Just remove the first. On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 11:30:54AM +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: Sorry, guys, for a new subject on a topic mentioned twice

Re: SHUT THE FUCK UP I WANT OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2005-06-30 Thread Jason Thomas
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Re: GRUB 0.97 is released

2005-05-09 Thread Jason Thomas
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Re: Grub SplashScreen

2005-04-21 Thread Jason Thomas
worth, I am working from a Debian SID (Kanotix) hdd install. Please help if you can, best regards Robert Bridge ___ Bug-grub mailing list Bug-grub@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub -- Jason Thomas Linux System

Re: Beginners' question about interference of GRUB with windows bootloader

2005-04-01 Thread Jason Thomas
On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 04:45:00AM +0400, Aleksei wrote: I may select OS of alien computer). Will installing GRUB Legacy to my (hd0, 0) override bootmagic? Of course, that would not be that much of a disaster, since I could always reinstall bootmagic when travelling. no that will override

Re: [bugs #12460] Removing default=0 has no effect - first OS is always booted automatically

2005-03-25 Thread Jason Thomas
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Re: Grub Failure when HDD descriptor changes

2005-03-21 Thread Jason Thomas
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Re: grub delaying up to a minute at boot, prior to cdrom spinup?

2005-03-16 Thread Jason Thomas
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Re: Non partitioned disk and grub shell

2005-02-17 Thread Jason Thomas
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Re: Grub

2005-02-06 Thread Jason Thomas
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bug#293722: grub: simulated stack not marked PROT_EXEC, causes segfaults on new hardware]

2005-02-05 Thread Jason Thomas
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Re: problem

2005-01-16 Thread Jason Thomas
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[agx@debian.org: Bug#290098: grub: doesn't work with cciss and others]

2005-01-12 Thread Jason Thomas
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[olem@olivier-lemaire.org: [bugreport]: package grub / typo error on mkbimage manpage]

2005-01-09 Thread Jason Thomas
also. Cheers, -- Olivier LEMAIRE, aka LEM http://olivier-lemaire.org/ - End forwarded message - -- Jason Thomas Linux System Administrator http://www.sage-au.org.au/ ___ Bug-grub mailing list Bug-grub@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org

Re: More breakage -- Sarge only ??

2005-01-03 Thread Jason Thomas
denominator; and in both cases using other boot tools boot fine. Am I really the only one ?? Uwe ___ Bug-grub mailing list Bug-grub@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub -- Jason Thomas Linux System Administrator http

[bugs #10552] Multiboot example kernel.c incorrectly loops through modules

2004-10-10 Thread Jason Thomas
This mail is an automated notification from the bugs tracker of the project: GNU GRUB. /**/ [bugs #10552] Latest Modifications: Changes by: Jason Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'Date: Sun 10/10

Re: Bug in the Multiboot specification example OS

2004-10-10 Thread Jason Thomas
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Re: how to apply patches

2004-10-05 Thread Jason Thomas
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Re: WHO'S IN CHARGE OF THE MANUAL????

2004-09-10 Thread Jason Thomas
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grub website

2004-08-19 Thread Jason Thomas
Anyone noticed there doesn't seem to be any links to savannah and friends. I was just going to check grub2 but can't find it. -- Jason Thomas Linux System Administrator Planet Netcom P/L ___ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Help

2004-08-16 Thread Jason Thomas
for your help. Mike Dillon Worldwide Sales and Marketing Strategies Phone: 602-300-9777 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub -- Jason Thomas Linux System

Re: no splash screen

2004-08-11 Thread Jason Thomas
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 03:50:26PM -0700, Andrew Lenz wrote: splashimage=(hda0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz Above is wrong! splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz ___ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub

Re: reiser4 support

2004-08-06 Thread Jason Thomas
Check the list archives, from memory there was a problem. Perhaps todo with memory usage/allocation, I'm not sure! On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 04:12:52PM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: Hi, There is a patch that adds reiser4 support to GRUB by namesys. Does someone know why it is not in GRUB CVS?

Re: incorrect handling of holes in ext2 files

2004-08-06 Thread Jason Thomas
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initrd_addr_max

2004-08-04 Thread Jason Thomas
Is there anything we can do about this. Is the info in the last link related. Thanks. -- Jason Thomas Linux System Administrator Planet Netcom P/L ___ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub

Re: error 17

2004-05-05 Thread Jason Thomas
17 : Cannot mount selected partition This error is returned if the partition requested exists, but the filesystem type cannot be recognized by GRUB. On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 11:27:33PM +, Johannes Boneschanscher wrote: Dear Grub experts,

Re: [mbp@sourcefrog.net: Bug#243858: doc: wrong section title]

2004-04-15 Thread Jason Thomas
yeah I have CVS access. no idea why I didn't fix it myself! On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 02:13:19PM +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: I fixed it myself, but why didn't you fix it yourself, even though this is quite trivial? You have a CVS access, don't you?

[joeyh@debian.org: Bug#243835: grub-install hangs with xfs root/boot]

2004-04-14 Thread Jason Thomas
-install, on the theory this might make xfs put it in a consistent state, but no luck, it still hung. It would be nice if this could be fixed, or even worked around better than it currently is. -- see shy jo - End forwarded message - -- Jason Thomas Linux System Administrator

[mbp@sourcefrog.net: Bug#243858: doc: wrong section title]

2004-04-14 Thread Jason Thomas
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Re: TFTP Server wait too long

2004-04-02 Thread Jason Thomas
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Re: Mapping drives

2003-11-30 Thread Jason Thomas
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 07:07:17PM +0100, David Anderson wrote: I have two questions about doing so: first of all, will windows be intelligent enough about this not to damage my linux installation? And grub make the change at the bios level so windows will not even know. secondly, once I have

Re: Spam on list

2003-11-24 Thread Jason Thomas
I'd like to see this become a closed list. Mail delivery keeps getting disabled because of the spam filters on the mail server I use. On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 06:05:33PM -0500, Gregg C Levine wrote: Hello from Gregg C Levine Have any of you noticed the increased junk mail on this list, in a

resolve_symlink in shell scripts

2003-11-19 Thread Jason Thomas
coreutils provides a program called readlink which we can use instead of resolve_symlink. Is coreutils a base package on all current GNU based distros? ___ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub

grub-install --root-directory

2003-11-19 Thread Jason Thomas
Hey, I'm just working on a /boot sperate partition bug in update-grub for debian and noticed I did not need to specify the --root-directory option to grub-install, yet everything still worked fine even though /boot is a seperate partition. Has something changed that does not require this anymore?

Re: plan

2003-10-19 Thread Jason Thomas
yep I agree aswell, I can't see the load on the list being anymore than for grub development. On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 04:08:37AM +, Robert Millan wrote: On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 05:53:12PM +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: Hi all, I'm going to move all the activities of PUPA to GNU

Re: [Bug-grub] RE: Autoload grub.conf

2003-09-22 Thread Jason Thomas
Reinstall grub to your mbr/boot sector. use grub-install from linux. It has to be with how you've installed it. On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 07:34:31AM -0500, Gary Cote wrote: -Original Message- From: Treutwein Bernhard Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 7:01 AM general the file

Re: [Bug-grub] GRUB hungs

2003-09-22 Thread Jason Thomas
reinstall grub to your boot sector. On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 02:29:45PM -0500, ignacio vivona wrote: Hi there! I have GRUB installed with a Openlinux 3.1 and Windows2K ,it works perfectly until last week when it crash.When the bios try to load GRUB , i only get the line GRUB and halt. But

Re: [Bug-grub] Re: grub-0.93-win32-iso9660.diff

2003-09-05 Thread Jason Thomas
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 03:00:52PM +0100, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: The question is that we have not finished all the items in the file TODO. I don't know how many people have took a look at the file seriously, but they are still important issues. The things in the TODO file are features not

Re: [Bug-grub] install grub on Windows data partiton by misktake

2003-08-28 Thread Jason Thomas
boot to recovery mode from windows cd use fixmbr and other tools to fix it. On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 07:45:51PM +0900, ayumi wrote: How can I see the data partition again? ___ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Bug-grub] grub-install fails on NetBSD

2003-08-25 Thread Jason Thomas
so should this change be made to $grubdir aswell (the next line)? On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 08:17:38PM -0700, Soren Jacobsen wrote: On NetBSD, we don't use $bootdir, but mkdir tries to create it and then everything goes sour. See http://www.NetBSD.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=22049

Re: [okuji@enbug.org: [Bug-grub] Fwd: Translation]

2003-08-18 Thread Jason Thomas
Just to let everyone know, I have uploaded the new french translation of the faq. It will be available on the website in approx 6 hours. Thanks. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm translating the GRUB FAQ in french, think it will be a good idea to put it on the gnu site.

Re: [Bug-grub] Grub error 15 after removing partition

2003-08-17 Thread Jason Thomas
because you removed a partition you will need to reinstall grub to the mbr. Boot into linux, and use 'grub-install (hd0)', then reboot! your change to grub.conf is still needed. On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 09:42:29AM -0700, John Dunn wrote: Can anyone help? Thanks very much!

Re: [Bug-grub] XP+RH9 help

2003-08-16 Thread Jason Thomas
On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 01:16:40AM -0400, Davis wrote: kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=/dev/hdb1=/ hdc=ide-scsi the line above looks wrong. what is root=/dev/hdb1=/ this should not have the last =/ does dd accept od? I thought it was of? If you just want to make a boot floppy:

Re: [Bug-grub] [PATCH] grub-install: --config-file support...take 2

2003-08-15 Thread Jason Thomas
On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 11:34:56PM -0300, Felipe W Damasio wrote: How about adding the config-file option and removing the grub from batch mode. Would that be right (and useful)? I don't think so, I think you need oukji to respond to this. oukji is busy at the moment so you'll have to

[okuji@enbug.org: [Bug-grub] Fwd: Translation]

2003-08-14 Thread Jason Thomas
Hi, Okuji is busy with other things at the moment, so I'm responding. We would be happy to have a French translation of the FAQ. When your ready just send it to me and I'll upload it. As for the other docs, there currently are no other translations, and I think there rather large. But if you'd

Re: [Bug-grub] [PATCH] grub-install: --config-file support...take 2

2003-08-14 Thread Jason Thomas
Felipe, this will not work, the grub shell in batch mode will not use --config-file On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 08:56:30AM -0300, Felipe W Damasio wrote: Hi GRUB Hackers, Even though my previous --config-file support to grub-install did the job, it was built against a

Re: [Bug-grub] [PATCH] grub-install: --config-file support...take 2

2003-08-14 Thread Jason Thomas
It also seems the value is not even used by 'setup' in the grub shell! On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 01:53:22PM +1000, Jason Thomas wrote: Felipe, this will not work, the grub shell in batch mode will not use --config-file On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 08:56:30AM -0300, Felipe W Damasio wrote: Hi

Re: grub: doesn't load symlinks kernel images on reiserfs (bigdrive)

2003-08-14 Thread Jason Thomas
07:51, Stephane Jourdois wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 12:03:56PM +1000, Jason Thomas wrote: Hi Stephane, me again. Just wondering if the problem may have been fixed a couple of months ago. As I said you last week, grub cannot read now *any* file, symlink or normal file. Even

new debian update-grub

2003-08-02 Thread Jason Thomas
. Thanks. -- Jason Thomas Phone: +61 2 6257 7111 Unix System Administrator Fax:+61 2 6257 7311 Intology Services Pty. Ltd.Mobile: 0418 29 66 81 1 Hall Street Lyneham ACT 2602 http://www.intology.com.au

[stephane@rubis.org: Re: grub]

2003-08-01 Thread Jason Thomas
Is anyone else experiencing this problem. Any ideas? Thanks. - Forwarded message from Stephane Jourdois [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 08:04:22 +0200 From: Stephane Jourdois [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jason Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: grub On Fri, Aug 01, 2003

Re: Bug#106399: Netboot with GRUB

2003-07-01 Thread Jason Thomas
++ -- Jason Thomas Phone: +61 2 6257 7111 Unix System Administrator Fax:+61 2 6257 7311 Intology Services Pty. Ltd.Mobile: 0418 29 66 81 1 Hall Street Lyneham ACT 2602 http://www.intology.com.au

Re: [Bug-grub] Unable to boot reiserfs with grub

2003-06-29 Thread Jason Thomas
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 01:59:17AM +, Kamesh Chitti wrote: DIVI am trying to boot a reiserfs system using grub (0.5.96.1). Grub is not finding a valid filesystem. I noticed in the grub code that the REISERFS_MAX_SUPPORTED_VERSION is 2. However I am using version 3.6.8 of reiserfs./DIV

Re: [Bug-grub] Trouble in dual booting XP+RH9 with GRUB 0.93

2003-06-19 Thread Jason Thomas
try: grub-install '(hd0)' or grub-install /dev/hda which will install into the boot sector of the first drive. you can try creating a grub floppy and do the install using that. cat /boot/grub/stage1 /boot/grub/stage2 /dev/fd0 where is grub installed too? I would have thought your menu entry

[pme@devphil.com: Bug#197334: grub.info gives incorrect informationabout grub-install]

2003-06-15 Thread Jason Thomas
for terminal hand -- no debconf information - End forwarded message - -- Jason Thomas Phone: +61 2 6257 7111 Unix System Administrator Fax:+61 2 6257 7311 Intology Services Pty. Ltd.Mobile: 0418 29 66 81 1 Hall Street Lyneham ACT 2602

Re: [Bug-grub] Tracking down stage2 problems

2003-06-15 Thread Jason Thomas
use the lba option with grub On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 12:47:12AM -0500, Ryan Underwood wrote: What should I do to track this problem down? One concern is that perhaps lilo is ok with the geometry being wrong because it uses the LBA address on disk and ignores the CHS geometry; but maybe GRUB

Re: [Bug-grub] Xp Grub

2003-06-10 Thread Jason Thomas
boot the winxp cd into rescue mode and use fixmbr command. On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 05:19:20PM +0200, b mely wrote: SOS ! To whom it may concerns ! After installing GRUB on a dual OS - XP Pro + Linux Debian - it's no more possible to boot windows and we can't use fdisk...to make fdisk /MBR

Re: [Bug-grub] Help on GRUB version 0.92

2003-06-09 Thread Jason Thomas
It seems that your menu.lst/grub.conf is missing, You have been left with the grub shell, and can enter commands here by hand. check out the documentation on the grub website. On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 01:15:05PM +0100, Sarah Lai wrote: Hi, I have switched on my machine and have been faced

[kkreamer@etherhogz.org: Bug#195234: grub: FTBFS with gcc-3.3]

2003-06-02 Thread Jason Thomas
; /* mount id to detect very old transactions */ - __u32 long j_mount_id; + __u32_long j_mount_id; }; /* magic string to find desc blocks in the journal */ - End forwarded message - -- Jason Thomas Phone: +61 2 6257 7111 Unix System Administrator

Re: [Bug-grub] Re: [raj@colsa.com: Re: Bug#185770: grub:incompatible with Windows 2000 NTFS when installed on MBR]

2003-03-31 Thread Jason Thomas
basically he says that something is screwing with the bootsector in the location that stage 1.5 resides. On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 12:54:58AM +0900, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: At Sat, 29 Mar 2003 12:55:38 +1100, Jason Thomas wrote: okuji, can you explain to me what the stage 1.5 bit is, and why

[raj@colsa.com: Re: Bug#185770: grub: incompatible with Windows2000 NTFS when installed on MBR]

2003-03-28 Thread Jason Thomas
okuji, can you explain to me what the stage 1.5 bit is, and why this user can just delete it and grub still works. Thanks. - Forwarded message from Raj Manandhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 08:28:44 -0600 From: Raj Manandhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jason Thomas [EMAIL

Re: Bug#185770: grub: incompatible with Windows 2000 NTFS wheninstalled on MBR

2003-03-27 Thread Jason Thomas
it should be edited or +not be used. Without Stage 1.5, you must be careful not to change the +Stage 2 file, since its location is stored as a block list in the +Stage 1. + @node Stage2 errors @section Errors reported by the Stage 2 -- Jason Thomas Phone: +61 2 6257

Re: [Bug-grub] Re: e1000 patch for grub 0.93

2003-03-19 Thread Jason Thomas
can this be done in a way that makes the next update a 'just drop the new drive in' way. what I mean is something automated, or that just uses the code as is. making updates much easier. Just a thought. On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 01:22:46PM -0600, Randy Couey wrote: I am currently negotiating

Re: [Bug-grub] damaged mbr

2003-03-13 Thread Jason Thomas
if the hard drive is empty you can wipe the whole thing using a linux resuce disk and 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda' or whatever device is your hard disk. your don't need to run this for long. just a few seconds to wipe the boot sector. On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 04:33:22PM -0700, Ensign, Dane wrote:

Re: [Bug-grub] booting on ext3 ?

2003-03-10 Thread Jason Thomas
ext3 on disk format is the same as ext2 so it works fine On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 05:51:56PM +0100, mi wrote: Hello. I'm not on your list, so i hope this question will reach you it's simple. Can grub boot the kernel from an ext3 root-partition ( with directory /boot), or is it necessary

[noahm@debian.org: Bug#183576: feature request]

2003-03-05 Thread Jason Thomas
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Re: [Bug-grub] Re: GRUB hangs

2003-02-25 Thread Jason Thomas
If you have a win9x floppy handy with fdisk boot it and run 'fdisk /mbr' This will rewrite your mbr (which i think is screwed up somehow). Then boot linux using your rescue disk, and reinstall grub using 'grub-install /dev/hde' When you restored your machine from backup to the new hard drive

[l.laursen@stofanet.dk: Re: [okuji@enbug.org: [Bug-grub] Re:[l.laursen@stofanet.dk: Re: sed or grub-install bug?]]]

2003-02-19 Thread Jason Thomas
Here is the response: - Forwarded message from Leo Laursen [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 07:43:56 +0100 From: Leo Laursen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jason Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [[EMAIL PROTECTED]: [Bug-grub] Re: [[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: sed or grub-install bug

[schizo@debian.org: Re: sed or grub-install bug?]

2003-02-18 Thread Jason Thomas
. The offending line is: tmp_new_fname=`ls -al $tmp_fname | sed -n 's%.*- %\1%p'` I believe that this should be tmp_new_fname=`readlink $tmp_fname` - End forwarded message - -- Jason Thomas Phone: +61 2 6257 7111 Unix System Administrator

[l.laursen@stofanet.dk: Re: sed or grub-install bug?]

2003-02-18 Thread Jason Thomas
' ++ echo 'Unrecognized ls output: Not found or not a block device.' Unrecognized ls output: Not found or not a block device. ++ exit 1 + root_drive= + test x = x + exit 1 - End forwarded message - -- Jason Thomas Phone: +61 2 6257 7111 Unix System

automake 1.6 problem.

2003-01-08 Thread Jason Thomas
/upstream/grub' make: *** [all] Error 2 jason@bart:~/src/debian/grub/upstream/grub$ -- Jason Thomas Phone: +61 2 6257 7111 Unix System Administrator Fax:+61 2 6257 7311 tSA Consulting Group Pty. Ltd. Mobile: 0418 29 66 81 1 Hall Street Lyneham ACT

Re: [Bug-grub] (no subject)

2003-01-07 Thread Jason Thomas
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[bam@debian.org: Bug#175358: grub: detects ext2 filesystem as MS-DOS]

2003-01-05 Thread Jason Thomas
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Re: Grub splashimage (yes me again)

2002-12-31 Thread Jason Thomas
actually the copyright thing is so it can be included upstream. I'd prefer if it was not a debian thing. okuji do you think its possible to include the splashimage stuff if the author supports it? Thanks. On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 09:07:41AM -0500, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: hello Paulo. Well

Re: [Bug-grub] Grub install question

2002-12-30 Thread Jason Thomas
there are a number of ways. What you should probably do is boot into linux using a recover cd or floppy. then run grub-install. Redhat usually makes a /boot partition so if you have one something like this: grub-install --root-directory=/boot /dev/sda On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 09:35:30AM -0600,

[burningclown@burningclown.com: Re: [Bug-grub] Hitting cylinderlimit with GRUB]

2002-12-29 Thread Jason Thomas
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Re: [Bug-grub] Re: Reinstalling grub

2002-12-15 Thread Jason Thomas
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Re: [Bug-grub] Compiling a multi-boot kernel.

2002-12-11 Thread Jason Thomas
Are you trying to recompile a kernel for linux. If so ignore the multiboot stuff. You just want something like this: title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.4.20-rc2 root(hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-rc2 root=/dev/hda1 ro in your grub.conf or

Re: [Bug-grub] booting from a SCSI drive

2002-12-09 Thread Jason Thomas
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[mwsb@operamail.com: Bug#172280: GRUB Read Error]

2002-12-08 Thread Jason Thomas
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Re: [Bug-grub] Root password

2002-11-29 Thread Jason Thomas
from the grub menu edit the menu entry you want to boot, then edit the kernel entry and add init=/bin/sh to the end. On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 04:18:29AM -0800, Sooraj C wrote: Hi, I do not know whether this is the correct forum to send this mail. This does not have anything to do with bugs

Re: [Bug-grub] [Bug #1758] Device mapping different depending on environment (OS, or BIOS)

2002-11-20 Thread Jason Thomas
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Re: [Bug-grub] Install on unpartitioned space

2002-11-20 Thread Jason Thomas
you need to create a partition. it can be any type the grub supports. On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 05:27:31PM +0100, Lukas Kubin wrote: I reserved a small space on the beginning of drive for GRUB. On first partition is Windows installed. Do I have to create a partition for the Grub's files or is

Re: [Bug-grub] Restoring WinXP bootloader?

2002-11-19 Thread Jason Thomas
boot with winxp cd and use the recover commandline. it has a fixmbr command or something similiar. you can type help to get a list of available commands. On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 11:35:57AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm returning a laptop to a friend and I need to remove Linux + restore

Re: [Bug-grub] Grub WinXP and Linux

2002-11-14 Thread Jason Thomas
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 09:39:19AM +0100, Thorsten Grothe wrote: what is this device for this drive. 1. one priminary boot partion about 110 mb for Linux 2. one priminary NTFS partion about 15 Gb for WinXP 1 (/dev/hda1) 3. one priminary NTFS partion about 20 Gb for Winxp 2 (dev/hda3) what

Re: [Bug-grub] Error 17 loading stage 1.5 form grub

2002-11-10 Thread Jason Thomas
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Re: [Bug-grub] [Bug #1310] Nforce chipsets (A7N266-VM, etc) give error 28

2002-11-06 Thread Jason Thomas
This is fixed in CVS and debian. On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 06:23:08PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Booting with Grub worked fine on the nForce based MSI K7N420pro with Bios Versions 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 and 2.4, but stopped working with 2.5 and upwards. Asus nForce boards seem to have had this

Re: [Bug-grub] how to boot windows 2000 server with grub (v0.90)?

2002-11-01 Thread Jason Thomas
if windows was installed on the second hard drive then there is probably no need to 'map' the drives. if however it was installed on the first and then moved to the second the 'map' command is useful. On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 08:50:49AM -0800, Yashin Lee wrote: The situation is the following:

Re: [Bug-grub] --force-lba bug in grub 0.92 stage2

2002-10-09 Thread Jason Thomas
okay commited now! Thanks Kenneth. On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 11:17:30AM +1000, Jason Thomas wrote: oh yeah, I fixed this in the debian package, must have forgot to commit to CVS. ___ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman

Re: [Bug-grub] Re: GRUB GRUB GRUB etc

2002-10-03 Thread Jason Thomas
no there is an lba option to give grub. from grub-install manpage: --force-lbaforce GRUB to use LBA mode even for a buggy BIOS from grub info docs: *Caution2:* A number of BIOSes don't return a correct LBA support bitmap even if they do have the support. So GRUB provides a solution to

Re: [Bug-grub] [PATCH] Allow appending kernel options directly from the main menu

2002-10-01 Thread Jason Thomas
if this is almost the same as 'e' than why all the duplication? On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 05:16:11PM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote: The following patch lets users to directly edit the kernel command line by pressing 'a' at the grub menu. This makes it significantly easier for users to do things

Re: [Bug-grub] Grub exits with no error message

2002-09-23 Thread Jason Thomas
get the lateset version of grub or CVS snapshot. On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 10:23:52PM -0400, Steff and Eric Runquist wrote: Hi guys, I'm having trouble using GRUB 0.90 to boot a PC I'm installing Gentoo Linux on. ___ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [Bug-grub] Grub to boot kernel on Reiserfs

2002-09-22 Thread Jason Thomas
use 'setup' rather than 'install'. On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 01:14:48PM -, James Joseph wrote: Hi, I am having no luck in booting GNU/Linux systems with their /boot partition as Reiserfs. Grub isn't recongnizing the filesystem. I am having the exact same problem in trying to boot a

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