request for subscription

2007-01-02 Thread Benoit Donnette
All is in the title. I wish to subscribe so as to volunteer for GRUB legacy maintainance. Sorry if it is not the right place for this, I basically followed the instructions given on the FSF France Web site. ___ Bug-grub mailing list Bug-grub@gnu.org

Re: sir , I hve a problem,

2007-03-12 Thread Benoit Donnette
You obviously entered the command 'grub'. Typing Ctrl-C escapes with no damage. FYI, the grub command is there to setup the bootloader. BenoƮt. On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 15:18 +0530, P.P.Karthi keyan wrote: Hallo sir, Iam a student, doing M.Sc., Bioinformatics in a recognised university. I

Re: sir , I hve a problem,

2007-03-12 Thread Benoit Donnette
As Dan Farrell suggested, you must be in the grub prompt after a (possibly unwanted) reboot, with a broken grub.conf ; the remedy is to correct the grub.conf file, which usually lies in the /boot/grub directory. To get out of here, you will now need a rescue disk, unless you happen to know the

Re: Which device did I boot from?

2007-06-22 Thread Benoit Donnette
OK, what about something like : cat /proc/mounts which will tell you which devices are mounted ? unless you have a /boot artition that you won't mount (possible), but in this case the kernel would lie in /kernels/bzImage. However you need to know that you actually booted from (hd0,0). Benoit.

Re: {LITTLE SUCCESS} Re: microSD problem GRUB loading Stage1.5 Read error

2007-10-30 Thread Benoit Donnette
Hello Adrian, a little success. rather than /dev/sda I have tried with /dev/sda1 that is the fat16 partition. emu -boot c -hda /dev/sda1 and qemu opens the screen :-) but with the error ~~~``` Booting from Hard Disk Non -system Disk or Disk error Replace

Re: Selecting the last partition automatically

2009-03-05 Thread Benoit Donnette
Other idea : use of the (-1) index from the Python language. On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Felix Zielcke fziel...@z-51.de wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 05.03.2009, 10:12 -0500 schrieb Harvey Chapman: Is there a way to always select the last partition on a disk? I'd like to boot the same