Grub Loading Linux? kernel

2007-06-06 Thread adrian15
When you boot Grub... it prompts something like: Grub loading kernel then you see: Welcome to GRUB. and then you see the prompt. Let's see an irc conversation of the future. noob> Hey My Grub loads the linux kernel but then nothing happens. master> noob, if Grub loads the linux kernel then i

Re: grub2 miscelanea questions (2/2)

2007-06-06 Thread adrian15
19) rescue and exit failure on qemu == I think that booting from my computer does not give this error. If I boot from QEMU and type: grub> rescue and then : grub rescue> exit it says: FATAL: INT18: BOOT FAILURE Weird. Can you debug this? I've checked this again.

Re: grub2 miscelanea questions (1/2)

2007-06-06 Thread adrian15
3) Why any grub2.cfg file (I suppose it's the substitute for menu.lst) is inside the grub2 source code? What do you mean? Usually a program should include examples on how to use their files and document examples and so on... why isn't there any grub2.cfg ? 4) Why any doc folder is inside the

Re: test -e patch

2007-06-06 Thread adrian15
adrian15 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Attached you will find the patch adding test -e support for grub2. Do you mean you also have the '-e' option ? I mean I have everything that is possible. That includes `-e', but also all other features. Ok. +static void +test_file_exists (const char *

Re: gcs doubt #1

2007-06-06 Thread adrian15
If you can provide a patch for sourcecode to improve or add comments in a sane way, I am willing to commit those patches. Just please don't make the mistake to add useless comments. An useful comment is one that: -Describes a function algorithm -Describes what a function does (as

Re: Bug#427289: more LVM stuff (Re: Bug#427289: grub-probe: error: unknown device when / is an encrypted LVM)

2007-06-06 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 11:05:05PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > GRUB shouldn't load anything from any other partition than /boot. The > whole reason that we have /boot partitions is that it might be > possible that the rest isn't readable by GRUB. > > The reason we have grub-probe is to find