Re: dumb terminal support

2000-09-01 Thread Tim Riker
Okuji, My apologies, I overlooked the tftpserver command. That will do nicely. It would be nice to be able to give an nfs server and path, but that would be a bit more code than is required. OKUJI Yoshinori wrote: From: Tim Riker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: dumb terminal support Date

Re: dumb terminal support

2000-08-29 Thread Tim Riker
ulate menu entries in the command-line interface. This is much easier to implement than to give the user alternative menu interface. Okuji -- - private:[EMAIL PROTECTED] company:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ti

Re: dumb terminal support

2000-08-25 Thread Tim Riker
to the prompt. This would allow the user to at least type in the boot steps without being able to read the menu. -- Tim Riker - http://rikers.org/ - short SIGs! g All I need to know I could have learned in Kindergarten ... if I'd just been paying attention.

Re: BUG with grub menus

2000-07-26 Thread Tim Riker
as you can see /boot is not on the same partition as / and that is where your problem lies. I hope I didn't repeat myself too much. It was very confusing for me and it took over an hour to fix. If you have any questions please email me. Dave -- Tim Riker - http://rikers.org

Re: prepare_0_5_95

2000-06-16 Thread Tim Riker
. The others sound great! OKUJI Yoshinori wrote: From: Tim Riker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: prepare_0_5_95 Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 23:26:03 -0600 I still feel it would be useful to be able to restrict the mem= opion for idividual entries. Ok, then what do you think this: 1. GRUB

Re: prepare_0_5_95

2000-06-15 Thread Tim Riker
! The netboot stuff looks very promising. I mean to be testing this soon. OKUJI Yoshinori wrote: From: Tim Riker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: prepare_0_5_95 Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 15:26:24 -0600 I expect we need a way to turn the mem= option on and off for individual boot entries

Re: prepare_0_5_95

2000-06-14 Thread Tim Riker
and it booted ok. Of course I then realized that I had the 4gig config option in the kernel instead of the 64gig option. duh! I'm rebuilding the kernel now to test again. I expect we need a way to turn the mem= option on and off for individual boot entries. Tim Riker wrote: I hope to get

Re: prepare_0_5_95

2000-06-13 Thread Tim Riker
to be done until 0.5.95, so, Gordon, please release it whenever you like. Ah... if Tim Riker reports that my patch for 4GB memory works fine before the release, please apply it. I don't apply it for now, since I don't know if it works or not and I cannot examine it myself (I'm not so rich

Re: please test the CVS version!

2000-06-08 Thread Tim Riker
The 2.4.x kernels now have support for 4gig of memory. I'm running grub 0.5.94 on a IBM Netfinity 7000 m10 with 5 gig of ram and grub passed the kernel a mem= with only 4 gig on it. Has this been addressed? -- Tim Riker - http://rikers.org/ - short SIGs! g All I need to know I could have

Re: Grub documentation non-existent

2000-04-24 Thread Tim Riker
we can improve the situation by including a README in the docs/ directory, explaining what (Tex)info is all about, which readers and tools are available and where these can be found. I think should be done for all GNU packages, in the same manner as ABOUT-NLS, INSTALL etc. /Peter Astrand [EMAIL PROT

Re: Boot from CD?

2000-04-20 Thread Tim Riker
and then instruct it to load an OS from the CD. Regards, Pavel Roskin -- Tim Riker - http://rikers.org/ - short SIGs! g All I need to know I could have learned in Kindergarten ... if I'd just been paying attention.

Re: Boot from CD?

2000-04-17 Thread Tim Riker
IOS doesn't support it. I'd prefer to be wrong though. In this case, patches will be welcome :-) Regards, Pavel Roskin -- Tim Riker - http://rikers.org/ - short SIGs! g All I need to know I could have learned in Kindergarten ... if I'd just been paying attention.

Re: Boot from CD?

2000-04-16 Thread Tim Riker
boot from a bootable-CDROM, but I can't ensure that, since I haven't checked it for a while. Do you have any trouble? -- Tim Riker - http://rikers.org/ - short SIGs! g All I need to know I could have learned in Kindergarten ... if I'd just been paying attention.

Re: [grub] bug report

2000-04-16 Thread Tim Riker
d $grubdir || mkdir $grubdir earlier? It will also include any rootdir specified by the user. OKUJI Yoshinori wrote: From: Tim Riker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [grub] bug report Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 19:13:19 -0600 I noticed this too and worked around it by setting: rootdir=

Re: [grub] bug report

2000-04-14 Thread Tim Riker
investigate the problem soon. Okuji Tim Riker - http://rikers.org/ - short SIGs! g All I need to know I could have learned in Kindergarten ... if I'd just been paying attention.

Re: Grub over serial line - status ! (I did a test version, itruns!)

2000-04-12 Thread Tim Riker
Thanx for considering it. ;-) There has to be some way, the Linux kernel determines somehow if vitual consoles exist. Now, is there an easy way... ;-) OKUJI Yoshinori wrote: From: Tim Riker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Grub over serial line - status ! (I did a test version, itruns

Re: Here is the running GRUB DISKLESS stuff

2000-04-10 Thread Tim Riker
I stand corrected. Direct from rfc1541 we read: o DHCP must provide service to existing BOOTP clients. Good call folks! Per Lundberg wrote: "TR" == Tim Riker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: TR A DHCP server is not required to handle BOOTP clients. Are you 100% sure of thi

Re: Here is the running GRUB DISKLESS stuff

2000-04-07 Thread Tim Riker
ic entries for each machine. I don't know how it'll be if your using a DHCP client on a bootp server, but I guess it should work. Maybe this was what you meant. -- Tim Riker - http://rikers.org/ - short SIGs! g All I need to know I could have learned in Kindergarten ... if I'd just been paying attention.

Caldera patches

2000-04-03 Thread Tim Riker
- tries to help some broken BIOSes with mem detection splash - graphical menu (splash) screen, CD ioctl, etc. -- Tim Riker - http://rikers.org/ - short SIGs! g All I need to know I could have learned in Kindergarten ... if I'd just been paying attention. --- grub-0.5.94/stage2/boot.c.orig Thu Feb

Re: todo

2000-03-28 Thread Tim Riker
on my new Voodoo 3 graphics card (which supposedly has VBE 3.0 support). I'm not sure why this is so, but I'm investigating things further. Anyway, I think the patch should be applied anyway. I'll bug my boss some more about the paperwork. -- Tim Riker - http://rikers.org/ - short SIGs! g All I ne

Re: Platform support?

2000-03-15 Thread Tim Riker
menu. What would you think of typedefing the ints etc to like u16, u32 etc? and then a header could insure the native system has the right bits. If there is interest, I might start a proof of concept port. OKUJI Yoshinori wrote: From: Tim Riker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Platform support

Platform support?

2000-03-13 Thread Tim Riker
kernel loader. (ok similar is a stretch :) but most of stage2 should be there. Thoughts? PS: did you know that OpenLinux 2.4 uses grub as a loader? Have you seen the graphical interface is uses for the selection screen? -- Tim Riker - http://rikers.org/ - short SIGs! g All I need to know I could have