Re: the requirement for binutils

1999-08-04 Thread Jeff Sheinberg
OKUJI Yoshinori writes: [snip] Any comment is welcome. Hi, Nasm does Intel style assembler, gas does ATT style. Awhile ago I converted old grub 0.4 stage1 to use nasm (by hand). I personally like nasm, even though only version 0.97 is released under the GPL. HTH, -- Jeff

trying grub 0.5.92

1999-08-10 Thread Jeff Sheinberg
can do is make suggestions, but I don't have any energy left for programming right now. Thanks, -- Jeff Sheinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installation documentation

1999-09-23 Thread Jeff Sheinberg
OKUJI Yoshinori writes: From: Jeff Sheinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Installation documentation Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 17:42:39 -0400 (EDT) IMNSHO, the block list for stage2 belongs in the first block of stage2 itself. This way, stage1 only needs a pointer to the first

Re: error at VFS: 0.5 -- 0.5.92 command line changes

1999-09-24 Thread Jeff Sheinberg
dependency that has me confused. Have any ideas how I should proceed ? thank you, aa Try this, root=(hd0,0) kernel=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.10 root=/dev/sda1 ro boot HTH, -- Jeff Sheinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GNU GRUB 0.5.93.1 is released

1999-11-14 Thread Jeff Sheinberg
on it but without any partitions should be sensitive to the `p' flag. Thanks, -- Jeff Sheinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#52080: grub: won't recognize ext2 partition when there are *fat ones in front

1999-12-06 Thread Jeff Sheinberg
- normal extended is `5', linux extended is `85'. HTH, -- Jeff Sheinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Support for map without arguments

1999-12-09 Thread Jeff Sheinberg
that has been installed with the `d' flag after you physically changed the drive number - you just boot your emergency grub boot floppy, use the map command, then chainload to boot the grub with the now out of date late binding. HTH, -- Jeff Sheinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Support for map without arguments

1999-12-09 Thread Jeff Sheinberg
Jeff Sheinberg writes: You can make grub use late binding - this is what the `d' flag is for. So if you want to use a grub that has been installed with the `d' flag after you physically changed the drive number - you just boot your emergency grub boot floppy

Re: Can't chainload an SCO Unixware 7.1 boot floppy

2000-01-11 Thread Jeff Sheinberg
Jeff Sheinberg writes: Hi, I encountered a weird grub bug trying to chainload an SCO Unixware 7.1 boot floppy. I have chainload various boot floppies from grub all of the time, it's better than going into the BIOS and changing the settings over and over again. Here is my grub

Re: Can't chainload an SCO Unixware 7.1 boot floppy

2000-01-12 Thread Jeff Sheinberg
OKUJI Yoshinori writes: From: Jeff Sheinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Can't chainload an SCO Unixware 7.1 boot floppy Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 17:05:12 -0500 (EST) I encountered a weird grub bug trying to chainload an SCO Unixware 7.1 boot floppy. I don't think it is a bug

grub 0.5.94: recognizing LBA as CHS

2000-02-23 Thread Jeff Sheinberg
jeff ~ $ bc bc 1.05 784*255*63 12594960 783*255*63 12578895 Thanks, -- Jeff Sheinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: linux-2.4.0 breaks grub install into partition

2000-07-10 Thread Jeff Sheinberg
in the PBB or a stage 1.5 in the remainder of that track. Unfortunately, I don't understand enough about the sematics of raw I/O to make any suggestions for these remaining areas. -- Jeff Sheinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: linux-2.4.0 breaks grub install into partition

2000-07-10 Thread Jeff Sheinberg
Pixel writes: Jeff Sheinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When the grub shell modifies the MBR for the `hide' or `unhide' command it does not issue a `BLKRRPART ioctl()', unlike fdisk which does issue `BLKRRPART ioctl()' when, eg, only the partition type is modified

Re: New commands to allow booting obscure OS's from logicaldisksin extended partiton

2000-07-31 Thread Jeff Sheinberg
made their kernel multi-boot compliant, then of course Grub could be used to do the booting. The real problem is that there are just too many arrogant operating systems out there (Solaris, Unixware, Plan9, Windows, OS/2, etc) that require a primary partition to be used for booting from. -- Jeff

Re: Grub and OpenBSD?

2000-08-07 Thread Jeff Sheinberg
mine the root device properly, (I had chainloaded the (hd2,2) partition), so I had to use the `-a' boot time option, a real PITA, especially since grub cannot boot the OpenBSD kernel directly anymore (I am not complaining about this, just that it is the reason for your first method failing). -- Je

trying 0.5.96.1

2000-10-23 Thread Jeff Sheinberg
ot/grub/menu.lst I have not yet had a chance to play with the native mode, but I will do so at my next reboot. Thanks, -- Jeff Sheinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED

grub cannot find ufs sub-partition `e'

2000-12-04 Thread Jeff Sheinberg
] a: 165469504.2BSD 1024 819216 # (Cyl.0 - 102) c: 16546950unused0 0 # (Cyl.0 - 102) Thanks, -- Jeff Sheinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: grub cannot find ufs sub-partition `e'

2000-12-04 Thread Jeff Sheinberg
Wolfgang Sourdeau writes: At Mon, 4 Dec 2000 16:36:17 -0500 (EST), Jeff Sheinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I find that both grub 0.5.96.1 and 0.5.97 (cvs 2000-12-11) cannot Duh, I meant 2000-12-03. find the `e' ufs partition

Re: grub cannot find ufs sub-partition `e'

2000-12-05 Thread Jeff Sheinberg
Jochen Hoenicke writes: On Dec 4, Jeff Sheinberg wrote: Hi, I find that both grub 0.5.96.1 and 0.5.97 (cvs 2000-12-11) cannot find the `e' ufs partition, however, both can find the `a' on partition (hd2,3). This happens with the grub shell as well. Have you seen the mail

Re: Couldn't boot from CD on IBM ThinkPad 600X

2001-03-31 Thread Jeff Sheinberg
ted it. I uploaded it in the savannah patch manager: http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?group_id=68 More information is on the patch page. ^^^ Please post the patch directly to this list. The savannah web interface is not working for me. Thanks, -- Jeff Sheinbe

geometry (fd0) command

2001-03-31 Thread Jeff Sheinberg
esystem type unknown, partition type 0x4f Error 22: No such partition It seems that grub is expecting to find an (hd0)-like partition table on (fd0), which of course doesn't have one. Thanks, -- Jeff Sheinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bug-grub

Re: color in grub

2001-04-09 Thread Jeff Sheinberg
Light-Gray/ colorlight-gray/black black/light-gray # Entry 17:Default Menu Colors title Default menu colors to Light-Gray/Blue Black/Light-Gray colorlight-gray/blue black/light-gray HTH, -- Jeff Sheinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] __

Re: grub stopped working after motherboard swap

2001-05-09 Thread Jeff Sheinberg
). Now you just need to insure that the sectors mappings are congruent between the old and new boards. -- Jeff Sheinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub

Re: can't get Windows to boot on secondary disk

2001-08-03 Thread Jeff Sheinberg
geometry command is handy here, you can even run it from the grub shell (/sbin/grub) under linux. We are not mind-readers and magicians on this list. And read the excellent grub info documentation, repeatedly, if necessary, until it sinks in. -- Jeff Sheinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: grub / redhat 7.1

2001-08-06 Thread Jeff Sheinberg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub -- Jeff Sheinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub

booting NetBSD-1.5.[12] kernel

2001-11-25 Thread Jeff Sheinberg
type: ffs I am perfectly happy with having to chainload NetBSD, I just want to document what happened. I also very much appreciate that grub can directly load the FreeBSD loader (/boot/loader), this has gotten me out of a difficult situation more than once. Thanks, -- Jeff Sheinberg [EMAIL

Re: booting NetBSD-1.5.[12] kernel

2001-11-29 Thread Jeff Sheinberg
Jeff Sheinberg writes: Hi, I noticed a problem with grub when directly booting a NetBSD kernel, # Entry 4:NetBSD 1.5.1 production [sd1s4] title NetBSD 1.5.1 production [sd1a] hide (hd0,3) hide (hd0,7) hide (hd2,1) unhide (hd2,3

Re: Grub Problem on 2-Disk System

2002-10-29 Thread Jeff Sheinberg
type 0x83 Partition num: 7, Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 Partition num: 8, Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 Hopefully, after following the above instructions, you will attain enlightenment regarding the problem you reported. -- Jeff Sheinberg

Re: Question about installing GRUB

2003-02-18 Thread Jeff Sheinberg
flexible, there are other possibilties, but I tried to keep this reply as simple as possible. After are able to boot Windows from your hard drive with GRUB, then you can read about GRUB's install command (from the GRUB info manual) for other scenarios. -- Jeff Sheinberg

Re: Grub on mbr without Linux

2003-07-08 Thread Jeff Sheinberg
already answered this question. -- Jeff Sheinberg ___ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub

Re: Problem loading a multiboot kernel

2003-07-29 Thread Jeff Sheinberg
. -- Jeff Sheinberg ___ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub

Re: debugging grub

2003-09-29 Thread Jeff Sheinberg
or Meta key, then Esc-key should be used to set the Meta bit. Note that bash, ksh{88,93}, and even the X athena text widget can handle the common Emacs key bindings. -- Jeff Sheinberg ___ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman

Re: (no subject)

2003-11-11 Thread Jeff Sheinberg
grub installed to the h-d somewhere. Please read the grub info docs. Repeat prior suggestion. Eventually, it will begin to make sense to you. -- Jeff Sheinberg ___ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug

Re: (no subject): grub recog of 3drives (2 linux)

2003-11-11 Thread Jeff Sheinberg
unknown, partition type 0x82 Partition num: 5, Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 Partition num: 6, Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 Have you read the grub info docs yet? -- Jeff Sheinberg ___ Bug-grub mailing

Etherboot patches to grub

2003-11-20 Thread Jeff Sheinberg
that my ISP provides to me has a 5MB limit, thus you had used up 1/2 of my quota on that day, not to mention the download time that it takes to fetch 2.8MB over a 56k dialup line. Thanks, -- Jeff Sheinberg ___ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: booting freedos with grub help

2004-01-01 Thread Jeff Sheinberg
* config.sys* drdos.386* ibmdos.com*temp/ autoexec.bat* command.com* debian/ freebsd/ jeff/ boot/ config.bak* drdos/ ibmbio.com* security.bin* -- Jeff Sheinberg ___ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: GRUB booting from FAT32?

2004-03-13 Thread Jeff Sheinberg
. -- Jeff Sheinberg ___ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub

Re: grub-md5-crypt question

2004-03-24 Thread Jeff Sheinberg
system, the man page can be accessed thusly, $ man 1ssl passwd -- Jeff Sheinberg ___ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub