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

2004-04-18 Thread Jeremy Katz
On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 08:15, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: This sounds like a bug in XFS. Is it possible to get a stack trace from the grub shell by gdb to detect where it hangs up? There have been attempts to convince me to add calls to xfs_freeze around the use of grub. This then makes sure

Re: automake mess

2003-09-09 Thread Jeremy Katz
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 13:58, Robert Millan wrote: I just found that GRUB is broken for automake 1.7: [snip] Anyone with a better clue on autotools than me could take it a look? The last time this came up, Okuji wanted to stay with 1.5. Your output almost looks like you're missing a perl module

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

2003-06-02 Thread Jeremy Katz
On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 00:36, Jason Thomas wrote: oukji, is this the correct fix? There's already a (slightly different) fix for this in CVS Cheers, Jeremy ___ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub

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

2003-02-18 Thread Jeremy Katz
On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 22:20, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: At Wed, 19 Feb 2003 10:29:59 +1100, Jason Thomas wrote: +++ sed -n 's%.*- %\1%p' It's a grub bug. The offending line is: tmp_new_fname=`ls -al $tmp_fname | sed -n 's%.*- %\1%p'` I believe that this

Re: [grub #14] message to end edit misleading

2003-01-09 Thread Jeremy Katz
On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 09:47, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: At 01 Jan 2003 17:46:32 -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote: you're currently editing. Essentially, instead of having print_cmdline_message take 0 or 1, the parameter would be more of a mode flag of forever (current forever=1), normal cmdline

Re: automake 1.6 problem.

2003-01-08 Thread Jeremy Katz
On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 19:33, Jason Thomas wrote: Hi all, anyone have ideas on what todo about this its on debian unstable with automake 1.6.3: The attached patch makes it build fine for me with automake 1.6, but Okuji has expressed a desire to stay with 1.5 at present. Jeremy diff -ur

Re: [PATCH] Add support for building on x86_64

2003-01-01 Thread Jeremy Katz
On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 10:16, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: At 29 Dec 2002 02:29:48 -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote: The attached patch lets GRUB build on x86_64 assuming you have a multilib compatible build environment set up (ie, gcc -m32 gives you 32-bit binaries) I don't know much about x86-64

Re: RFC: message= type functionality

2003-01-01 Thread Jeremy Katz
On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 10:08, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: At 29 Dec 2002 01:34:00 -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote: I've had a request for functionality in GRUB similar to lilo's message= directive. This allows sites to have a message file which they then display on boot for various warnings

Re: Grub splashimage (yes me again)

2002-12-31 Thread Jeremy Katz
*to, const void *from, int len) { --- /dev/null 2002-10-04 14:48:04.0 -0400 +++ grub-0.93/stage2/graphics.c 2002-12-28 23:37:03.0 -0500 @@ -0,0 +1,552 @@ +/* graphics.c - graphics mode support for GRUB */ +/* Implemented as a terminal type by Jeremy Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED] based

[PATCH] Add support for building on x86_64

2002-12-28 Thread Jeremy Katz
revision 1.540 diff -u -u -r1.540 ChangeLog --- ChangeLog 21 Dec 2002 00:34:33 - 1.540 +++ ChangeLog 29 Dec 2002 07:28:39 - @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2002-12-29 Jeremy Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + * configure.in: Support building on x86_64 with gcc -m32. + 2002-12-21 Yoshinori K. Okuji [EMAIL

Re: question about grub 0.92

2002-10-21 Thread Jeremy Katz
On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 09:05, Roman Jordan wrote: Hi, i downloaded grub version 0.92. And i found no information about the splash image. I use at the moment grub version 0.91. If i there call info grub i found one sentences about splash image. My question now: Is a splash image usable in

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

2002-10-04 Thread Jeremy Katz
On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 17:52, Jason Thomas wrote: 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

Re: [PATCH] Switch to non-deprecated compiler options

2002-10-03 Thread Jeremy Katz
On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 00:30, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: At 01 Oct 2002 17:16:06 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote: The use of -m flags for align-jumps, align-loops, and align-functions is deprecated in gcc 3.2 The following patch switches to the supported options of -falign-jumps, -falign-loops

[PATCH] Switch to non-deprecated compiler options

2002-10-01 Thread Jeremy Katz
=== RCS file: /cvsroot/grub/grub/ChangeLog,v retrieving revision 1.522 diff -u -r1.522 ChangeLog --- ChangeLog 13 Sep 2002 11:49:56 - 1.522 +++ ChangeLog 1 Oct 2002 21:11:40 - @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2002-10-01 Jeremy Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + * configure.in

[PATCH] Fixups to work with automake 1.6

2002-10-01 Thread Jeremy Katz
/ChangeLog,v retrieving revision 1.522 diff -u -r1.522 ChangeLog --- ChangeLog 13 Sep 2002 11:49:56 - 1.522 +++ ChangeLog 1 Oct 2002 21:09:31 - @@ -1,3 +1,38 @@ +2002-10-01 Jeremy Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + * stage2/Makefile.am (pre_stage2_exec_ASFLAGS): Renamed

[PATCH] Allow appending kernel options directly from the main menu

2002-10-01 Thread Jeremy Katz
: ChangeLog === RCS file: /cvsroot/grub/grub/ChangeLog,v retrieving revision 1.522 diff -u -r1.522 ChangeLog --- ChangeLog 13 Sep 2002 11:49:56 - 1.522 +++ ChangeLog 1 Oct 2002 20:48:57 - @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2002-10-01 Jeremy

Re: Problems with Compaq DL380G2 running Redhat 7.2

2002-05-31 Thread Jeremy Katz
On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 05:21, Yeo Eng Hee wrote: Everything worked fine until I had to compile and install my own kernel. (I needed to run Linux 2.4.22 kernel to access the hot-plug tape that comes with the DL380G2). 2.4.22? Do you mean 2.2.22? I tried configuring grub using new-kernel-pkg

Re: Problems with Compaq DL380G2 running Redhat 7.2

2002-05-31 Thread Jeremy Katz
On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 14:01, Thierry Laronde wrote: On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 05:21:43PM +0800, Yeo Eng Hee wrote: I am encountering a problem with the bootloader. Everything worked fine until I had to compile and install my own kernel. (I needed to run Linux 2.4.22 kernel to access the

RE: Problems with Compaq DL380G2 running Redhat 7.2

2002-05-31 Thread Jeremy Katz
On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 03:44, Yeo Eng Hee wrote: The main problem I encounter was that grub did not seem to recognise the changes I did to /etc/grub.conf (I edited it manually). This is what I thought would have worked: That's the right thing to do, assuming the kernel config is correct. I

Re: use Savannah more aggresisvely

2002-05-29 Thread Jeremy Katz
On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 08:30, Florian Hatat wrote: Le mardi 28 mai 2002, Jeremy Katz scripta: I think this is a great thing, personally, especially with the messages being cc'd to bug-grub. This increases a lot the trafic on the list... Not really -- in the past, bug reports would get

[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: menu.lst or grub.conf and attributes

2002-04-24 Thread Jeremy Katz
On Wed, 2002-04-24 at 22:53, Martin Felker wrote: Will someone please clear up the issue about whether Red Hat Linux uses a GRUB configuration file called menu.lst or grub.conf.I suspect it may be the former as menu.lst appeared to have different attributes (executable??) than the

Re: about the xpm format used by grub

2002-03-28 Thread Jeremy Katz
On Thu, 2002-03-28 at 16:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't find any tip about the good xpm format to use with grub, seems it needs some special format. Nothing in the mailing lists nor the man or the infodoc, someone can help ??? The splash image patch is not supported by the upstream

Re: [PATCH] Parse mem= on Linux kernel command line to changeinitrd load address (resend)

2002-03-20 Thread Jeremy Katz
On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 03:54, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: At 08 Mar 2002 16:50:57 -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote: The attached patch lets GRUB parse a Linux kernel command line for mem= to use as the upper memory location for an initrd as opposed to the maximum detected memory amount per the Linux

Re: Caldera patches

2002-03-13 Thread Jeremy Katz
On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 16:59, Sergey Babkin wrote: I've recently ported the Caldera's patches from grub-0.5.96.1 to grub-0.91 and I wonder if the GRUB project would be interested in integrating them back into the main tree. The patches are: To comment on at least a couple of these...

[PATCH] Parse mem= on Linux kernel command line to change initrdload address (resend)

2002-03-08 Thread Jeremy Katz
+1,13 @@ +2002-03-08 Jeremy Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + * stage2/boot.c (load_image): Look for mem= on Linux kernel + command line and set max memory for loading the initrd + appropriately. + (load_initrd): Likewise. + * stage2/char_io.c (simple_strtoul): Simple string

Re: Win98 APM fails w/grub 0.90

2002-02-28 Thread Jeremy Katz
On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 17:54, Ed Swierk wrote: I recently upgraded my ThinkPad 600 to RedHat Linux 7.2, which installs grub 0.90 as the bootloader in place of LILO. After that, the APM driver always failed to load when I booted into the existing Windows 98 partition. When I reverted either

Re: Possible bug in grub with USB Keyboard

2002-02-26 Thread Jeremy Katz
On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 12:38, Derrik Pates wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 04:36:30PM +, Rob wrote: There is a bug, reproducable every time with my hardware cant say for others, grub does not recognise usb keyboard input. No, that's not a GRUB problem. Your BIOS can probably deal on

Re: GRUB with second IDE hard disk

2002-02-18 Thread Jeremy Katz
On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 18:00, Muralidhar Ganga wrote: I installed a new IDE hard disk. I installed Redhat 7.2 on it and chose to update the GRUB to be installed on MBR. Previsously I had NT and Linux on the first hard drive with with GRUB on the MBR. After successful installation of

[PATCH] Parse mem= on Linux kernel command line to change initrdload address

2002-02-08 Thread Jeremy Katz
/grub/grub/ChangeLog,v retrieving revision 1.476 diff -u -u -r1.476 ChangeLog --- ChangeLog 8 Feb 2002 01:28:39 - 1.476 +++ ChangeLog 8 Feb 2002 20:08:33 - @@ -1,3 +1,13 @@ +2002-02-08 Jeremy Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + * stage2/boot.c (load_image): Look for mem= on Linux

Re: problem with grub configuration

2002-02-08 Thread Jeremy Katz
On Fri, 2002-02-08 at 13:25, Janet Anstett wrote: I have a problem with the grub configuration on my machine. I have RedHat 7.2 installed on a Dell Precision 410 machine. I am trying to set the amount of memory in the boot command. All of the stuff that I have seen says to put mem=256M at

Re: problem with grub configuration

2002-02-08 Thread Jeremy Katz
On Fri, 2002-02-08 at 15:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pavel Roskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: GRUB loads initrd (initial reamdisk) to the end of the memory. It uses 256M of memory. But you tell the kernel that you only have 254M of memory. That's why the kernel cannot load initrd.

Re: problem with grub configuration

2002-02-08 Thread Jeremy Katz
On Fri, 2002-02-08 at 15:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeremy Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do this with the uppermem command, so instead of your entry looking like the following: [snip] ...so I *think* it would instead look like this: title Red Hat Linux (2.4.7-10smp

Re: [Bug-grub] splashimage support

2002-01-29 Thread Jeremy Katz
On Tue, 2002-01-29 at 17:21, Jason Thomas wrote: On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 01:20:31PM -0600, inittab wrote: how can i add splashimage support to grub, i find nothing about it in the documentation but i see all these people using it, is this a patch to the grub source or what? ive tried the

Re: Can't configure grub to use less memory

2002-01-23 Thread Jeremy Katz
On Wed, 2002-01-23 at 17:19, Darren Gamble wrote: Lastly, we also tried to manually add mem=800M onto the end of the kernel boot line. The GNU grub faq suggests to do this, and kickstart also does this if it's specified in its configuration. If that's done, when the machine boots the root

Re: ramdisk_size

2002-01-11 Thread Jeremy Katz
On Fri, 2002-01-11 at 11:37, Ísak Ben. wrote: i need to use a fairly large ramdisk on my server but grub wont adjust it properly, my config looks like this title Red Hat Linux (2.4.9-13) root (hd0,4) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.9-13 ro root=/dev/md0 initrd

[PATCH] Support mktemp as well as tempfile for creation oftempfiles in grub-install

2002-01-02 Thread Jeremy Katz
retrieving revision 1.452 diff -u -u -r1.452 ChangeLog --- ChangeLog 30 Dec 2001 08:23:16 - 1.452 +++ ChangeLog 2 Jan 2002 17:54:42 - @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2002-01-02 Jeremy Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + * util/grub-install.in: Support using mktemp as well as tempfile

Re: GRUB and framebuffer

2001-12-10 Thread Jeremy Katz
On Mon, 2001-12-10 at 18:55, Oliver Roeschke wrote: Does GRUB have an option similiar to the vga and append so that I gave give the options I need to get my framebuffer Xserver to work??? Just add the necessary options to the end of your kernel line in your GRUB config file, eg title foo

Re: Gnu Grub Manual

2001-11-17 Thread Jeremy Katz
On Sat, 2001-11-17 at 23:54, William (Andy) Smith wrote: On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Jochen Hoenicke wrote: Okuji, do you think this link should be added to the project page and/or the FAQ? I had a question about rewriting the MBR after swapping out raid. The Gnu Grub Manual had just the

Re: serial problems with grub-0.90

2001-11-12 Thread Jeremy Katz
On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 13:44, Pragnesh Sampat wrote: This machine does not have a console. It has one serial port ttyS0/COM1 which is connected to another x86 linux box with a serial cable. I was passing console=XXX options to lilo which I did with GRUB and I am at least where I was with the

Re: Bug-grub: Promise Ultra33 issues

2001-10-30 Thread Jeremy Katz
On Tuesday, October 30 2001, pa said: System currently; PII in an Asus Promise Ultra33 Disk 1 at hda CD at hdc Disk 2 at hde Disk 3 at hdg The last 2 drives hanging off of the Promise Ultra33. No go with Grub at that point, instead of the Grub menu at boot time just a blinking

Re: GRUB loops, printing GRUB

2001-09-04 Thread Jeremy Katz
On Tuesday, September 04 2001, Geoffrey Leach said: There are 3 SCSI HDs and no IDE on this system. Motherboard is Intel Venus with a PPro. The SCSI controller is and Adaptec 29160N The BIOS is set to boot from ID 1, which has a freshly-installed RedHat Roswell (7.1.94). SCSI ID 0 has a

[PATCH] Ensure serial device exists prior to use

2001-08-07 Thread Jeremy Katz
=== RCS file: /cvsroot/grub/grub/ChangeLog,v retrieving revision 1.428 diff -u -r1.428 ChangeLog --- ChangeLog 2001/08/08 05:17:20 1.428 +++ ChangeLog 2001/08/08 05:46:58 @@ -1,3 +1,13 @@ +2001-08-08 Jeremy Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + * grub/asmstub.c, stage2/serial.c, stage2

[PATCH] Copy stages prior to device probes in grub-install

2001-08-07 Thread Jeremy Katz
retrieving revision 1.428 diff -u -r1.428 ChangeLog --- ChangeLog 2001/08/08 05:17:20 1.428 +++ ChangeLog 2001/08/08 05:50:31 @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2001-08-08 Jeremy Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + * util/grub-install.in: + copy GRUB stages into the grubdir prior to probing for devices

[PATCH] grub-install --just-copy

2001-08-07 Thread Jeremy Katz
=== RCS file: /cvsroot/grub/grub/ChangeLog,v retrieving revision 1.428 diff -u -r1.428 ChangeLog --- ChangeLog 2001/08/08 05:17:20 1.428 +++ ChangeLog 2001/08/08 05:56:00 @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2001-08-08 Jeremy Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + * util/grub

Determining if GRUB is the bootloader in use on a system

2001-08-07 Thread Jeremy Katz
As may or may not have been noticed, we are giving GRUB as the primary boot loader in the Red Hat Linux public beta released the end of last week. Unfortunately, due to the vagueries of hardware just being weird and lack of the kind of widespread use that LILO has seen, LILO is still offered as

Re: grub command works, but GRUB boot loader hangs

2001-08-07 Thread Jeremy Katz
On Sunday, August 05 2001, Ben Liblit said: Recall that this system has a SCSI controller with two drives, one of which is ordinarily used as the boot drive. There's also an old IDE drive hanging off the secondary channel, a SCSI CD-ROM, and a floppy tape drive controller. (For more

RFC: Change Name of Default Config File

2001-07-18 Thread Jeremy Katz
Hi, I've been looking some at grub recently and one thing that really doesn't make sense from the point of view of just being a user is the name of the default config file being menu.lst. I would like to propose that this should instead be grub.conf as that seems to be something that users can