Re: GRUB Faq

2010-01-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Lapohos Tibor wrote: To clarify, I was talking about the headings: Building / Installation from Source Build Prerequisites Example This is covered in the INSTALL file. I've submitted a new one, but it hasn't been committed. In the meantime you can get most of what you need from: http://w

Re: GRUB update problems

2010-01-05 Thread Henry W. Peters
Felix Zielcke wrote: Am Dienstag, den 05.01.2010, 13:58 -0500 schrieb Henry W. Peters: Then I did check the /etc/default/grub file, & this is what I got (I took out the '# at the GRUB_GFXMODE=1440x900' & changed the resolution... I tried doing an '#update-grub' both in the terminal while bo

Re: GRUB update problems

2010-01-05 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Dienstag, den 05.01.2010, 13:58 -0500 schrieb Henry W. Peters: > > Felix Zielcke wrote: > > Am Dienstag, den 05.01.2010, 13:07 -0500 schrieb Henry W. Peters: > > > >> I run Debian Lenny sid/squeeze, the updater this morning just > >> "updated" > >> my GRUB2 version... (not sure of the versi

Re: GRUB update problems

2010-01-05 Thread Henry W. Peters
Felix Zielcke wrote: Am Dienstag, den 05.01.2010, 13:07 -0500 schrieb Henry W. Peters: I run Debian Lenny sid/squeeze, the updater this morning just "updated" my GRUB2 version... (not sure of the version). normally it doestn't make sense to have stable (lenny), testing (squeeze) and

Re: GRUB Faq

2010-01-05 Thread Lapohos Tibor
Sorry for the former silly lines. I've just realized, I wrote based on a document made of what you, developers, are saying, with my formatting on top.   To clarify, I was talking about the headings:   Building / Installation from Source Build Prerequisites Example grub.cfg for RAID (and I see you

EFI boot problem with MBP 5,4

2010-01-05 Thread Daire Byrne
Hi, It looks like recent kernels (namely 2.6.31 and 2.6.32) can't find the initrd when booting from grub (efi) on a macbook pro 5,4 giving the error: RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0. The 2.6.30 kernel does not seem to suffer from this so something must have changed in

Embedding area too small... (GRUB2 on software RAID1)

2010-01-05 Thread Lapohos Tibor
Hello,   I successfully set up an Intel Matrix Raid device with a RAID1 and a RAID0 volume, each having a couple of partitions, but then I could not install GRUB2 on the RAID1 volume, which I wanted to use to boot from and mount as root. It turned out that the "IMSM" metadata is not supported in

Re: GRUB update problems

2010-01-05 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Dienstag, den 05.01.2010, 13:07 -0500 schrieb Henry W. Peters: > I run Debian Lenny sid/squeeze, the updater this morning just > "updated" > my GRUB2 version... (not sure of the version). normally it doestn't make sense to have stable (lenny), testing (squeeze) and unstable (sid) in /etc/apt/s

GRUB update problems

2010-01-05 Thread Henry W. Peters
I run Debian Lenny sid/squeeze, the updater this morning just "updated" my GRUB2 version... (not sure of the version). Anyway, I have a Dell S1909 WX monitor at resolution 1440 x 900 (analogue) at 60 Hz. (the recommended resolution). I do dual boot with Windows XP (sp3) & besides a GNOME deskt

Re: grub-setup: error: no mapping exists for ... in GRUB2 v1.97.1 on fake (IMSM) RAID

2010-01-05 Thread Lapohos Tibor
Thanks for the help. I consider this case closed till GRUB reaches that certain development state.   I tried a totally different approach, I guess one would call it "GRUB on pure software RAID", and I bumped into a new problem. I'll describe it under a new thread.   Thanks again, Tibor --- On

Re: GRUB Faq

2010-01-05 Thread Lapohos Tibor
Inspired by my own problems, in a seIfish way, I would suggest "Grub2 and RAID" + section 3.8.   Also, I think sections 2.2.5 and 2.2.6 could take a bit of a touch-up, or extension, if you will. Especially the last sentence of 2.2.6. IMHO, the real thing is to be able to do everything from scrat

Re: Problems with grub-reboot/savedefault/default=saved

2010-01-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 12:33:23PM +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > I don't understand why /boot on LVM should mean that grubenv is not > > writable. The point of grubenv is to be a short chunk of contiguous > > reserved disk space which can be written

Re: Problems with grub-reboot/savedefault/default=saved

2010-01-05 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Colin Watson wrote: >> 4: Even with the first grub-reboot fix the default is still not restored >> when grubenv is not writable ( /boot on lvm for example ). Since >> grub-reboot can't work without a writable grubenv it's at least safer to >> boot into the "real" default instead of the "temporar

Re: Problems with grub-reboot/savedefault/default=saved

2010-01-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 12:37:17AM -0800, Jordan Uggla wrote: > I found another bug. For some reason grub-reboot ( the utility ) > checks if prev_saved_entry ( which has just been set equal to > saved_entry ) is empty ( zero length or unset ), and if it is > unsets it. This makes grub-reboot ag

Re: Problems with grub-reboot/savedefault/default=saved

2010-01-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 02:28:03PM -0800, Jordan Uggla wrote: > 1: grub-reboot doesn't restore the default after rebooting, making it > effectively equivalent to grub-set-default. This is because the > savedefault functionality currently saves the entry you boot from as the > new default even wh