Olaf Hering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, May 23, Marco Gerards wrote:
>
>> perhaps the amount of memory, time and date, etc.
>
> Why would anyone care about that in a bootloader?
Some people want to boot a specific OS depending on the time. There
have been a lot of requests for this.
On Mon, May 23, Marco Gerards wrote:
> perhaps the amount of memory, time and date, etc.
Why would anyone care about that in a bootloader?
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Olaf Hering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri, May 13, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
>
>> Do you have any other "essential parts" in mind?
>
> Showing or hiding images depending on cpu capabilities.
> Essentially a 'title[64bit] install' and 'title[32bit] install'.
> There is really no need to show
On Fri, May 13, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> Do you have any other "essential parts" in mind?
Showing or hiding images depending on cpu capabilities.
Essentially a 'title[64bit] install' and 'title[32bit] install'.
There is really no need to show 64bit kernels on my ibook.
So if you guys could exte
On May 13, 2005, at 7:43 AM, Olaf Hering wrote:
On Mon, May 09, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
Also, this patch allows you to boot from the OF commandline,
overriding
the defaults. Example:
boot enet:,grubof prefix=foo; debug=bar
Can one override essential parts of grub that way?
Like loading a diff
Olaf Hering <[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
>
> Can one override essential parts of grub that way?
> Like loading a different config file?
The configfile
On Mon, May 09, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> We're doing a lot of useless work in cmain().
>
> Also, this patch allows you to boot from the OF commandline, overriding
> the defaults. Example:
> boot enet:,grubof prefix=foo; debug=bar
Can one override essential parts of grub that way?
Like load
Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Yeah, I consider it absolutely required, so that when users say "it
> crashed before I could do anything" we can just ask them to boot with
> "debug=all".
What I want to use it for is setting the prefix. Usually I have
grub.cfg stored on the HD and
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
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
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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 not found; ihandle=ffbc6f8
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?
They were auto added to console by OF - not me. Hold on
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 not found; ihandle=ffbc6f80 phandle=ff848300 method
> not found; ihandle=ffbc6f80 phandle=ff84830
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
On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 00:05 -0500, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> We're doing a lot of useless work in cmain().
>
> Also, this patch allows you to boot from the OF commandline, overriding
> the defaults. Example:
> boot enet:,grubof prefix=foo; debug=bar
I thought this might work if I'm using grub
We're doing a lot of useless work in cmain().
Also, this patch allows you to boot from the OF commandline, overriding
the defaults. Example:
boot enet:,grubof prefix=foo; debug=bar
Comments?
-Hollis
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