Re: Problems with Grub

2011-08-18 Thread Giorgio Cittadini
Hi all, probably you know that my GRUB problem was RESOLVED. Your suggestions were very important. I hope I'm not becoming tedious, but, while running along BLFS avenue, I encountered a big problem: I don't succeed in installing GPM-1.20.1. I followed LFS-Book-6.8 and now BLFS-Book-6.3. I always

Re: Problems with Grub

2011-08-18 Thread William Immendorf
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 2:51 AM, Giorgio Cittadini gioci...@gmail.com wrote: I hope I'm not becoming tedious, but, while running along BLFS avenue, I encountered a big problem: I don't succeed in installing GPM-1.20.1. I followed LFS-Book-6.8 and now BLFS-Book-6.3. I always get the errors here

Re: Problems with Grub

2011-08-18 Thread Giorgio Cittadini
Thanks for your suggestion. I'll try in the next days and I'll keep you informed about the hoped success. Giorgio Cittadini 2011/8/18 William Immendorf will.immend...@gmail.com: On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 2:51 AM, Giorgio Cittadini gioci...@gmail.com wrote: I hope I'm not becoming tedious, but,

Re: Problems with Grub

2011-08-18 Thread Giorgio Cittadini
RESOLVED!!! The suggestion to use BLFS SVN as a progressive complement to LFS-6.8 has been successfull, at least as regards GPM 1.20.6, that could be installed without any patch (and actually works well). Thanks again. Giorgio Cittadini 2011/8/18 Giorgio Cittadini gioci...@gmail.com: Thanks

Re: Problems with Grub

2011-08-17 Thread Giorgio Cittadini
To the attention of Andy and Mac (with many thanks for having considered my problem). This is how the things go. I installed LFS-6.8 on a notebook HP Pavilion dv6215ea with i386 dual core CPU. My situation at the moment is the following: (1) 500 GB HD partitioned so to have Windows 7 (reserved)

Re: Problems with Grub

2011-08-17 Thread Giorgio Cittadini
RESOLVED!!! The error was that I wrote the new menuentries in grub.cfg under the voice ###BEGIN /usr/etc/grub.d/40_custom, while it was necessary to write them under the voice ###BEGIN /usr/etc/grub.d/10_linux. This recognized it was very easy to get a multiboot LFS | ArchLinux | Ubuntu-Plus-7 |

Re: Problems with Grub

2011-08-17 Thread Simon Geard
On Wed, 2011-08-17 at 08:31 +0200, Giorgio Cittadini wrote: Could there be a bug in the tarball of grub? I don't think it possible, since the other OSs do use grub2 successfully (one in the 1.98, the other in the 1.99 version). Not likely, since it's the same tarball that works fine for every

Re: Problems with Grub

2011-08-17 Thread Andrew Benton
On Wed, 17 Aug 2011 08:31:06 +0200 Giorgio Cittadini gioci...@gmail.com wrote: (5) But also if I manually modify grub.cfg introducing the new menuentry (and, obviously, I don't use grub-mkconfig), nothing changes. Then you are not modifying the grub.cfg that grub (the one on the MBR) is

Re: Problems with Grub

2011-08-17 Thread Mike McCarty
Giorgio Cittadini wrote: RESOLVED!!! Congratulations! And thanks for posting the fix. Mac -- p=p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);};main(){printf(p,34,p,34);} Oppose globalization and One World Governments like the UN. This message made from 100% recycled bits. You have found the bank of Larn.

Re: Problems with Grub

2011-08-16 Thread Andrew Benton
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 17:52:44 +0200 Giorgio Cittadini gioci...@gmail.com wrote: All is OK, but when I've booted the first time using Grub, I found only Linux 2.6.37-lfs-6.8 and its recovery mode. I tried to make recognizable the presence of Windows 7, but I got no success. When I control the

Re: Problems with Grub

2011-08-16 Thread Mike McCarty
Andrew Benton wrote: Giorgio gioci...@gmail.com wrote: [...] What to do? Could you suggest where I mistook? What to do now: remove (but how?) Grub and reinstall it? GRUB is not something to remove. If one no longer wants GRUB, then one simply overwrites it with something else. You don't

Re: Problems with Grub

2011-08-16 Thread Andrew Benton
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:46:46 -0500 Mike McCarty mike.mcca...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Andrew Benton wrote: You don't need to reinstall grub. If it's working Ok and you can boot into LFS then just edit grub.cfg to make an entry for windows, something like this: menuentry Windows { set

Re: Problems with Grub

2011-08-16 Thread Mike McCarty
Andrew Benton wrote: On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:46:46 -0500 Mike McCarty mike.mcca...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Andrew Benton wrote: You don't need to reinstall grub. If it's working Ok and you can boot into LFS then just edit grub.cfg to make an entry for windows, something like this: menuentry