problem or bug?

2000-06-27 Thread vince . h
hello, y want to say that your soft is very good. With lilo i didn't boot on my scsi hard disk, but with brub i could. I have one problem i must swap my disks in bios, ok? i have 3 disks, 1 scsi 2 ide. Linux and grub are on a ide disk. windows on the scsi hard disk. for linux booting to linux

Re: GRUB doesn't handle large linux kernels

2000-06-27 Thread OKUJI Yoshinori
Hi Pavel, From: Pavel Roskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: GRUB doesn't handle large linux kernels Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 11:09:28 -0400 (EDT) The choice between self-loading "vmlinuz" and multiboot-compliant "vmlinux" can be different for different users. I see, but vmlinux is not

Re: problem or bug?

2000-06-27 Thread Khimenko Victor
27-Jun-00 09:38 you wrote: hello, y want to say that your soft is very good. With lilo i didn't boot on my scsi hard disk, but with brub i could. I have one problem i must swap my disks in bios, ok? Ok. Just don't expect it from GRUB :-) It's really BIOS- and MB- dependant feature. Unability

Antwort: Working with OS/2 Warp 4?

2000-06-27 Thread Dirk Ritter
Hello Thomas! On Mon, 26 June 2000 at 21:46:56, you wrote: There is: the first sector of the partition holds boot code for OS/2. This code will be used if you boot without OS/2 bootmanager straight from a primary partition (I am using this with my OS/2 servers. Since there is no

Re: problem or bug?

2000-06-27 Thread Gordon Matzigkeit
vince h writes: vh For booting to windows i must have this order hd2 hd0 hd1 (scsi vh ide0 ide1) else windows dont see all dos partitions. This is a FAQ, and explained in the GRUB manual (grub)DOS/Windows: DOS/Windows --- GRUB doesn't support booting DOS or Windows directly, so

Re: problem or bug?

2000-06-27 Thread OKUJI Yoshinori
From: "Khimenko Victor" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: problem or bug? Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 16:14:37 +0400 (MSD) Ok. Just don't expect it from GRUB :-) It's really BIOS- and MB- dependant feature. Unability to swap disks is NOT bug - there are just NO partable way to do this (except for DOS

Re: problem or bug?

2000-06-27 Thread Khimenko Victor
27-Jun-00 07:59 you wrote: vince h writes: vh For booting to windows i must have this order hd2 hd0 hd1 (scsi vh ide0 ide1) else windows dont see all dos partitions. This is a FAQ, and explained in the GRUB manual (grub)DOS/Windows: DON'T DO IT ! See below. DOS/Windows ---

Re: Antwort: Working with OS/2 Warp 4?

2000-06-27 Thread OKUJI Yoshinori
From: Dirk Ritter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Antwort: Working with OS/2 Warp 4? Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 14:58:10 +0200 (CEST) Thanks a lot for the corrections and pointers. I myself lost track of things related to OS/2, so maybe you could add some useful information with respect to OS/2 to the

Re: GRUB doesn't handle large linux kernels

2000-06-27 Thread OKUJI Yoshinori
From: Pavel Roskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: GRUB doesn't handle large linux kernels Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 11:16:34 -0400 (EDT) I don't know the exact definition of the term "proprietary format" but I think it doesn't apply to Linux. When a format is _not_ well-defined (or open), I

Re: GRUB doesn't handle large linux kernels

2000-06-27 Thread Pavel Roskin
I don't know the exact definition of the term "proprietary format" but I think it doesn't apply to Linux. When a format is _not_ well-defined (or open), I assume that it is a "proprietary format". Thus, in my definition, the format of vmlinux is proprietary. I didn't mean adding any

Re: The list of outstanding reports that should be closed

2000-06-27 Thread Gordon Matzigkeit
OKUJI Yoshinori writes: OY Here is the list of outstanding reports that should be OY closed. Gordon, if you have any question, feel free to ask me. OY * #42242: grub: GRUB no longer includes HTML documentation OY * #42273: Documentation files removed in update of grub OY That was not

Re: The list of outstanding reports that should be closed

2000-06-27 Thread OKUJI Yoshinori
From: Gordon Matzigkeit [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: The list of outstanding reports that should be closed Date: 27 Jun 2000 10:36:14 -0600 I need to keep these open, until I set up HTML generation from the Debian build files, because all Debian documentation is supposed to be in HTML. You

Re: The list of outstanding reports that should be closed

2000-06-27 Thread Gordon Matzigkeit
OKUJI Yoshinori writes: OY The option does exist. In the file NEWS: OY New in 0.5.94 - 2000-03-06: [snip] * The command "chainloader" OY now accepts an option "--force", Great! I'll close the report, -- Gordon Matzigkeit [EMAIL PROTECTED] //\ I'm a FIG (http://fig.org/) Committed to

Re: problem or bug?

2000-06-27 Thread Khimenko Victor
28-Jun-00 00:52 you wrote: From: "Khimenko Victor" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: problem or bug? Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 16:14:37 +0400 (MSD) Ok. Just don't expect it from GRUB :-) It's really BIOS- and MB- dependant feature. Unability to swap disks is NOT bug - there are just NO partable

Re: Antwort: Working with OS/2 Warp 4?

2000-06-27 Thread Dirk Ritter
Hello OKUJI Yoshinori! On Wed, 28 June 2000 at 00:55:47, you wrote: Definitely. Please don't hesitate to contribute to GRUB. I'm not an OS/2 user, so you may not expect me to write anything about OS/2. BTW - Matthieu WILLM has even better documentation available these days and he

Re: problem or bug?

2000-06-27 Thread Khimenko Victor
28-Jun-00 04:11 you wrote: From: "Khimenko Victor" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: problem or bug? Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 21:27:29 +0400 (MSD) WILL NOT use "virus compatibility mode". And that's what I said - there are NO clean way to swap drives in GRUB (note "except for DOS" part in cited

Re: problem or bug?

2000-06-27 Thread Gordon Matzigkeit
Khimenko Victor writes: Ok. Just don't expect it from GRUB :-) Don't tell a lie. KV "LIE" ?? It WAS truth and it IS truth. There is no need for anybody to get upset. Khimenko, it would have been much easier if you just said ``GRUB can do what you want using the `map' command, but it is

answering questions [was: problem or bug?]

2000-06-27 Thread Gordon Matzigkeit
Khimenko Victor writes: KV - Is it possible to get to the railway terminal on this bus ? [...] KV So "normal" person will answer - No, use tram instead. It's KV station is right there - only 50m. KV Now, this answer is really lie (you CAN get to the railway KV terminal on this bus,

Re: problem or bug?

2000-06-27 Thread Khimenko Victor
27-Jun-00 14:29 you wrote: Khimenko Victor writes: Ok. Just don't expect it from GRUB :-) Don't tell a lie. KV "LIE" ?? It WAS truth and it IS truth. There is no need for anybody to get upset. Khimenko, it would have been much easier if you just said ``GRUB can do what you want

Re: problem or bug?

2000-06-27 Thread OKUJI Yoshinori
From: "Khimenko Victor" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: problem or bug? Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 21:27:29 +0400 (MSD) WILL NOT use "virus compatibility mode". And that's what I said - there are NO clean way to swap drives in GRUB (note "except for DOS" part in cited text: yes, I know about "map"