Re: Lead-up message 'Welcome to GRUB!' inverted text printed lowlevel via BIOS ?!?

2010-02-23 Thread edgar . soldin
On 22.02.2010 20:45, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: Robo L wrote: Hi all Thanks for reply. Colins: It is a possible, I must check it. I tell You soon. Richard, I see, that I must stop it. Licence is Licence, but for my experience I check it what is a solution. You do not have to

Re: Licensing Re: Lead-up message 'Welcome to GRUB!' ...

2010-02-23 Thread edgar . soldin
What is this all about? There are two topics here. A) How can he remove the message? B) Is removing it a violation of the license? Answer to the first question A is already given. Answer to B is short, but plain simple. GPL gives everybody the right to modify the software as he/she wants to. On

Re: Is it possible to have grub2's boot.img as my MBR, but have it look in a separate partition for core.img?

2010-01-28 Thread edgar . soldin
Any reason why you keep this of list? Well, in case of boot code size does matter as boot records are limited in size. Or? .. ede On 28.01.2010 18:36, Bean wrote: On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 1:15 AM, wrote: So grubinst bootcode seems superior over grub2 bootcode regarding partitions?

Re: Is it possible to have grub2's boot.img as my MBR, but have it look in a separate partition for core.img?

2010-01-28 Thread edgar . soldin
So grubinst bootcode seems superior over grub2 bootcode regarding partitions? ede On 28.01.2010 17:57, Bean wrote: On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:39 AM, wrote: I am pretty sure. If you want I am willing to retry. Still I wonder what is the deifference to the grubinst/g2ldr approach and why

Re: Is it possible to have grub2's boot.img as my MBR, but have it look in a separate partition for core.img?

2010-01-28 Thread edgar . soldin
I am pretty sure. If you want I am willing to retry. Still I wonder what is the deifference to the grubinst/g2ldr approach and why the boot code can find g2ldr. Can it read fat fs? .. ede On 28.01.2010 15:55, Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 03:11:35PM +0100, edgar.sol...@web.de w

Re: Is it possible to have grub2's boot.img as my MBR, but have it look in a separate partition for core.img?

2010-01-28 Thread edgar . soldin
I had also problems to install grub2 to a partition boot record. It complained and wouldn't do it. But it was necessary, because the laptop bios I wanted to boot the usb stick, did actually ignore the mbr but insisted on starting the partition boot record. I compiled a g2ldr and used the lates

Fwd: compile trunk with lua and gfxmenu

2010-01-21 Thread edgar . soldin
Anybody on this matter? .. Thanks again, ede Original Message over the weekend I tried to figure out how to compile gfxmenu and lua together with grub from trunk. I didn't find an easy way. I tried to make an extra package similar to lua out of gfxmenu but stopped as I didn't

compile trunk with lua and gfxmenu

2010-01-18 Thread edgar . soldin
over the weekend I tried to figure out how to compile gfxmenu and lua together with grub from trunk. I didn't find an easy way. I tried to make an extra package similar to lua out of gfxmenu but stopped as I didn't knew how to integrate the missing header files. My knowledge so far is how to c

Re: lua 'grub.run' does not return message text

2010-01-16 Thread edgar . soldin
thanks .. I am gonna double check this. Are their other undocumented variables like grub_errmsg. Where should I look for documentation? I'd also look at the source if necessary. About what I am doing. I found the listiso scripts http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1288604 while trying to g

lua 'grub.run' does not return message text

2010-01-14 Thread edgar . soldin
When I run err,msg = grub.run("ls") only the variable err is filled with the exit code. msg is still nil .. I saw documentation that grub.run is supposed to return the output in the second variable. I use lua from grub-extras repository http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/grub-extras/ checked out