Re: [PATCH] VBE support

2001-11-21 Thread Alex Thiel
Sorry, messed that up. Attached is the working patch. Alex On Wednesday 21 November 2001 18:23, Alexander Thiel wrote: Hello, here is the VBE patch against the current CVS. I did my best to write a conforming ChangeLog entry. Let me know if there is something wrong - it's the first time

Re: hacking on boot.c to add PE, COFF, LE executables...

2001-12-11 Thread Alex Thiel
On Tuesday 11 December 2001 14:38, Dark Fiber wrote: boot.c is a complete mess geared to only load elf files (and hack a.out into some sembelance of an elf file wrt text/data/bss). I want to add LE, PE and COFF to its executable loading, but this requires huge changes in boot.c (i get

Re: software interrupts from a multiboot-compliant kernel

2002-02-11 Thread Alex Thiel
On Sunday 10 February 2002 19:38, Timmy Douglas wrote: I made a multiboot compliant kernel using the demo files that came with grub: boot.S, multiboot.h, and kernel.c. I wanted to do some vesa/vga stuff and I figured out that software interrupts (int 10h) are probably the best way to do that.

Re: multiboot information structure flags are confusing me

2002-02-13 Thread Alex Thiel
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 04:02, Timmy Douglas wrote: i want to enable some flags for the multiboot information structure. so i can get some VBE info. however, the docs talk about two separate groups of flags: the ones in the binary header and the multiboot info flags. it says that the

Re: multiboot information structure flags are confusing me

2002-02-14 Thread Alex Thiel
On Thursday 14 February 2002 03:01, Timmy Douglas wrote: and one thing about your docs: +---+ 0 | vbe_control_info | 4 | vbe_mode_info | 8 | vbe_mode | 10 | vbe_interface_seg | 12 |

Re: multiboot information structure flags are confusing me

2002-02-16 Thread Alex Thiel
On Saturday 16 February 2002 07:55, Timmy Douglas wrote: it seems that i'm not getting the flag (bit 11) in the mbi structure... i think the flags i'm getting are 0x7e7 (1100111) any ideas? i'm testing on a dell inspiron 3800 laptop which has vesa support i think. Did you try

Re: Problems creating GRUB Floppy

2002-02-28 Thread Alex Thiel
Can you boot your machine from a floppy at all? Maybe the boot order in your BIOS is set to boot from the harddisk first. Alex On Thursday 28 February 2002 09:27, Treutwein; Bernhard wrote: I tried several times to create a GRUB floppy as it is explained in the GRUB Manual in Section 3.1:

Re: GRUB as linux LOADLIN???

2002-04-28 Thread Alex Thiel
On Saturday 27 April 2002 04:26, Grant Edwards wrote: On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 10:26:42PM +0100, John Sutton wrote: I'm trying to find a way to boot a linux kernel from an already running linux system *without* returning control to the BIOS i.e. without rebooting the system. I suppose what

Re: Error when running configure script from grub-0.91.tar.gz

2002-04-28 Thread Alex Thiel
On Sunday 28 April 2002 21:29, Stefan Viljoen wrote: Hi! I am getting the following error when trying to . configure grub to be compiled on my RedHat 6.0 system, kernel 2.5.5-15: checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes

Re: need terminfo for serial console?

2002-04-29 Thread Alex Thiel
On Monday 29 April 2002 13:49, Dr. Tilmann Bubeck wrote: --- Christoph Plattner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, to cover all aspects of the TERM-I/O stuff, also the tty (in ourcase the serial) flow control has to be added. XON/OFF or even RTS/CTS flow control (XON/OFF is really

Re: HTTP Grub?

2002-05-01 Thread Alex Thiel
On Wednesday 01 May 2002 18:26, Mario Klebsch wrote: Am Mittwoch den, 1. Mai 2002, um 17:30, schrieb Joe: What are the chances of being able to get kernels/ramdisks over http with grub? Our tftp server is falling over with multiple machines trying to tftp kernels and ramdisks to boot,

Re: boot floppy fails on different machine

2002-05-20 Thread Alex Thiel
Peter, sounds like your old BIOS has problems with the way the floppy is probed in stage1. Thierry Laronde has done a complete rewrite of the stage1 code. The patch can be found at http://alpha.polynum.org/misc/grub-0.92.a_cd+ef.diff.gz I haven't tried the patch myself, but it seems to handle

Re: grub and devfs

2002-05-23 Thread Alex Thiel
Try giving the device the GRUB way, i.e. grub-install '(hd0)' Worked for me. Cheers, Alex On Thursday 23 May 2002 17:01, Christian Hesse wrote: Hello! I've just installed a Linux from Scratch with device filesystem. Of course I use grub as my prferred bootloader. ;) But I had some

Re: problem with Grub

2002-05-28 Thread Alex Thiel
GRUB starts only after the BIOS initialization is finished, so if you see something like grub it is already to late to enter the BIOS setup. To enter the BIOS menu on your machine you'll have to press some key during startup. Usually it's 'delete', but that may differ. Refer to the manual of

Re: Follow-up of mail of 23. Sept. 2002

2002-09-24 Thread Alex Thiel
On Tuesday 24 September 2002 15:38, bruno.naumann wrote: Dear Sirs, I have retried the same procedure with the (new) grub version 0.91. When I try grub with root ( tab and root (hd0, tab online without shutting down and rebooting, everything works exactly as described in the tutorial.