Re: memory probing

2005-05-10 Thread alfred hitch
Hi, thanks for your response, actually what I am looking for is that does grub and all use bios calls to find out the memory size ? on my system there is no bios, ixdp425 based plattform, then can I somehow probe amount of memory and not use a #define'ed one ? Cheers, Alfred On 5/10/05, coly

Re: Fwd: memory probing

2005-05-10 Thread Marco Gerards
coly li [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: write and verify means: you read the content from location X, and change the value, then write back to location X; then re-read the content from X, if the value is what you write, the location X is valid; otherwise, maybe the location X is invalid. This

Re: Fwd: memory probing

2005-05-10 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* alfred hitch [EMAIL PROTECTED] [050510 12:23]: anyways, how can u get this from processor also ? The processor has little to nothing to do with this.. it's dependent on the northbridge and southbridge. I vaguely remember see'ing some code where someone on a i386 based plattform but WITHOUT

Re: PPC executable name

2005-05-10 Thread Nico -telmich- Schottelius
Hollis Blanchard [Sun, May 08, 2005 at 10:02:06PM -0500]: I'd like to rename the PPC executable from grubof to grub. If nothing else, it will avoid the question is it grubof.cfg or grub.cfg?. Thoughts? grub.cfg, as a user I am not interesed it oh there is openfirmware, but I simply assume:

Re: [ppc] [patch] set environment from commandline

2005-05-10 Thread Marco Gerards
Hollis Blanchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We're doing a lot of useless work in cmain(). Agreed. Also, this patch allows you to boot from the OF commandline, overriding the defaults. Example: boot enet:,grubof prefix=foo; debug=bar This looks like a nice feature to me, especially for

Re: non boot-device was Re: [ppc] [patch] set environment from commandline

2005-05-10 Thread Paul Nasrat
On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 20:16 +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: Paul Nasrat [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 0 boot hd:2,\grubof.modules load-size=2e220 adler32=e04b6e6d What are load-size and adler32 used for? Don't you need a `;' here? Loading ELF method color! not found; ihandle=ffbc6f80

Re: non boot-device was Re: [ppc] [patch] set environment from commandline

2005-05-10 Thread Hollis Blanchard
On May 10, 2005, at 2:59 PM, Paul Nasrat wrote: Ignore the Default catch that seems to be resolved for me. Hmm, if you have any ideas, I'd still like to know how you got that error... Experimental toolchain? -Hollis ___ Grub-devel mailing list

Re: console colors

2005-05-10 Thread Hollis Blanchard
On May 10, 2005, at 2:59 PM, Paul Nasrat wrote: Loading ELF method color! not found; ihandle=ffbc6f80 phandle=ff848300 method color! not found; ihandle=ffbc6f80 phandle=ff848300 method color! not found; ihandle=ffbc6f80 phandle=ff848300 method color! not found; ihandle=ffbc6f80 phandle=ff848300

Re: [ppc] [patch] set environment from commandline

2005-05-10 Thread Hollis Blanchard
On May 10, 2005, at 1:11 PM, Marco Gerards wrote: Hollis Blanchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also, this patch allows you to boot from the OF commandline, overriding the defaults. Example: boot enet:,grubof prefix=foo; debug=bar This looks like a nice feature to me, especially for development.