Re: Image decryption support in GRUB?

2000-08-07 Thread OKUJI Yoshinori
From: "Jochen Hoenicke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Image decryption support in GRUB? Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 13:07:45 +0200 (MET DST) > What about "kernel [blowfish,12345678]/tftproot/kernel.image" > > One could concatenate filters like this: > [gunzip][blowfish,12345678]/tftproot/ke

Re: default is static

2000-08-07 Thread OKUJI Yoshinori
From: Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: default is static Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 17:46:50 -0500 (CDT) > The attached patch makes default look for "active" as an argument, and > sets the default to the number of the active partition. While this is > very much a hack, it means the BootEasy beh

Re: GNU GRUB 0.5.95 boot image available

2000-08-07 Thread OKUJI Yoshinori
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Niels Möller) Subject: Re: GNU GRUB 0.5.95 boot image available Date: 05 Aug 2000 13:40:18 +0200 > When speaking about GRUB, I have a possibly stupid question: Are there > any plans to extend GRUB to support other architectures? Yes. Because I have a sparc64 machine an

Re: initial grub menu over ethernet

2000-08-07 Thread OKUJI Yoshinori
I'm not sure, as I don't know what other software packages are doing with network console. One of the ways I can imagine is to add a `telnetd' service into GRUB so that you could connect to a GRUB machine from a remote host. Probably this requires a lot of work, because you need to implement a T

Re: default is static

2000-08-07 Thread Mike Meyer
OKUJI Yoshinori writes: > From: Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: default is static > Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 17:46:50 -0500 (CDT) > > The attached patch makes default look for "active" as an argument, and > > sets the default to the number of the active partition. While this is > > very muc

Re: initial grub menu over ethernet

2000-08-07 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hello, Okuji! On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote: > I'm not sure, as I don't know what other software packages are doing > with network console. One of the ways I can imagine is to add a > `telnetd' service into GRUB so that you could connect to a GRUB > machine from a remote host. Prob

some ui comments

2000-08-07 Thread Ingrid
some things in grub didn't feel right to me. -- let me know which of the following make sense and i'll see if i can prepare patches for some of the simpler things. (otoh, given that i don't know how to compile stuff yet, let alone construct patches, nor do i even know C, it'll take me a while...

tab completion error message

2000-08-07 Thread Ingrid
if one types a command, say 'setup', then hits tab, the message is Error... what about something more like: Type '(' before tab for devices or '/' for files on device (hd0,1) -- ralph mellor

Re: some ui comments

2000-08-07 Thread Donald J Bindner
On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 01:38:37PM -0500, Ingrid wrote: > 4. here's my new menu behavior suggestion. when the user > hits enter from the main menu, grub displays a Run screen > that lists the commands behind that menu entry, and rests > the cursor on a line that says 'run' (or 'boot' or > 'run/bo

Re: initial grub menu over ethernet

2000-08-07 Thread Chetan Ahuja
> Please stop this code bloat! Just the fact that people want (or > even > implement) some features doesn't mean that such code should > become part of > the official GNU GRUB. Relax. I really have no interest in making anything official or otherwise. I just wanted the functionality for my

Grub and OpenBSD?

2000-08-07 Thread E. Larry Lidz
What's the latest on using Grub (0.5.95) with OpenBSD (2.7)? I've tried both: root (hd0,2,a) kernel --type=openbsd /bsd and root (hd0,2,a) makeactive chainloader +1 in my Grub configuration and neither seem to work. The first gives "/boot too old: upgrade" and the second gives "bad magic".

initial grub menu over ethernet

2000-08-07 Thread zchen
i would say your best bet is to have a hardware/firmware solution that can ensure resetting/rebooting the machine whenever you want to (Intel, Tyan and Asus all have motherboards that allow power up, power down and resetting of the machines from a serial port, some can even be rebooted from an eth

Re: Grub and OpenBSD?

2000-08-07 Thread Jeff Sheinberg
E. Larry Lidz writes: > > What's the latest on using Grub (0.5.95) with OpenBSD (2.7)? I've tried > both: > > root (hd0,2,a) > kernel --type=openbsd /bsd > > and > > root (hd0,2,a) > makeactive > chainloader +1 > > in my Grub configuration and neither seem to w

Re: Grub and OpenBSD?

2000-08-07 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hello! > What's the latest on using Grub (0.5.95) with OpenBSD (2.7)? I've tried > both: > > root (hd0,2,a) > kernel --type=openbsd /bsd > > and > > root (hd0,2,a) Also try root (hd0,2) > makeactive > chainloader +1 Also try chainloader --force +1 > > in my Grub configuration and neither

Re: Image decryption support in GRUB?

2000-08-07 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Mon, 07 Aug 2000, OKUJI Yoshinori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: "Jochen Hoenicke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Image decryption support in GRUB? > Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 13:07:45 +0200 (MET DST) > >> What about "kernel [blowfish,12345678]/tftproot/kernel.image" >> >> One could co

Re: initial grub menu over ethernet

2000-08-07 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote: [...] > Please stop this code bloat! Just the fact that people want (or even > implement) some features doesn't mean that such code should become > part of the official GNU GRUB. [...] > S

Re: default is static

2000-08-07 Thread OKUJI Yoshinori
From: Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: default is static Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 09:14:55 -0500 (CDT) > Given that you've just told me where, I'll look into finding out how > (any pointers would be greatly appreciated). If someone has another > suggestion for where, I'd like to hear that

Re: initial grub menu over ethernet

2000-08-07 Thread OKUJI Yoshinori
From: Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: initial grub menu over ethernet Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 11:21:00 -0400 (EDT) > Please stop this code bloat! Just the fact that people want (or even > implement) some features doesn't mean that such code should become part of > the official GNU GRU

Re: Grub and OpenBSD?

2000-08-07 Thread OKUJI Yoshinori
From: Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Grub and OpenBSD? Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 17:11:33 -0400 (EDT) > It looks like that OpenBSD also expects some new interface to the > bootloader. The idea of a unified bootloader doesn't seem to be popular > among *BSD folks. The worst problem i