Re: saved/savedefault working from what version on?

2005-09-28 Thread Kai Schaetzl
In reply to adrian15 (I'm not on the list): If you happen to make it work, please tell us. In 2 or 3 weeks I'll be able to play with fallbacks commands and maybe would use the default ones... perhaps I'll tell you about my experience. I didn't test the fallback stuff, only setting specific

Re: line-limit length in grub.conf?

2005-09-27 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Kai Schaetzl wrote on Mon, 26 Sep 2005 23:58:48 +0200: Hi, I'm hitting the next problem: it seems there is a limit for the line length. My kernel line is quite long because I'm booting from a remote image and hand over static network data. It seems that anything after 275 characters gets

saved/savedefault working from what version on?

2005-09-26 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Hello, I wanted to experiment with the boot-once and fallback features of grub and found that the default file wasn't supported with the grub version (0.93 and 0.94) installed by the Linux systems we have. So I installed 0.97 from the source, but it still seems to lack that support. Which

Re: saved/savedefault working from what version on?

2005-09-26 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote on Mon, 26 Sep 2005 22:28:39 +0200: Hi Okuji, thanks for the reply. If you execute, for example, savedefault 1 in GRUB, what is recorded in /boot/grub/default? Nothing. Grub doesn't write to it, if there is one it doesn't get changed, if there is none it doesn't

Re: saved/savedefault working from what version on?

2005-09-26 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Kai Schaetzl wrote on Mon, 26 Sep 2005 23:21:46 +0200: You may be right about the boot sector. I just did make install, should I also run grub-install? I didn't think about that since there was an earlier grub installed and my guess was there's a difference in the binaries

line-limit length in grub.conf?

2005-09-26 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Hi, I'm hitting the next problem: it seems there is a limit for the line length. My kernel line is quite long because I'm booting from a remote image and hand over static network data. It seems that anything after 275 characters gets cut off. Can I workaround this? Maybe with a line