idea for storing menu.lst with 1_5 stage or equivalent on grub2

2006-02-20 Thread adrian15
This is a idea for making installations of Grub safer. It is based on Grub Legacy but I think you will find an equivalent on grub2. Most people ask about grub showing grub> and not knowing what do to do when that happens. (Usually when they remove Linux from pc). If I understand it correctly t

Re: [Fte-devel] unicode support

2006-02-20 Thread Marco Gerards
Vesa Jääskeläinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Timo Sirainen wrote: [...] >> I don't think it's such a good idea to start moving to C++ strings or >> wxWindows or any of that yet. Those would be pretty huge changes and I >> fear they would just never get finished. [...] > The problem here is

Re: idea for storing menu.lst with 1_5 stage or equivalent on grub2

2006-02-20 Thread Marco Gerards
adrian15 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My idea is that when embedd 1_5 stage we should also add a > configuration file with the following contents: > > timeout 0 > default 0 > title correct install > configfile /boot/grub/menu.lst > HERE GOES CONTENTS of /boot/grub/menu.lst > from the first title.

Re: Boot an ISO on an external/internal HD partition.

2006-02-20 Thread leslie . polzer
On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 11:58:27AM +1030, Phil wrote: >* A developer is building a bootable CD and wants to test it before > wasting a disk s/he could put Boot.ISO in the root of this partition > and have Grub boot it like a normail CD. Developers usually use a virtual machine like bochs or qe

Re: [Fte-devel] unicode support

2006-02-20 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Marco Gerards wrote: > Vesa Jääskeläinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Timo Sirainen wrote: > > [...] > >>> I don't think it's such a good idea to start moving to C++ strings or >>> wxWindows or any of that yet. Those would be pretty huge changes and I >>> fear they would just never get finis

Terminal interface and how it should be used?

2006-02-20 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Hi, I have made some progress with video subsystem and currently the font manager is slowing down (we need to cache fonts) and there are some issues with grub_term. I am not sure if all parts of the code use it correctly or then I am just understanding it differently. After those issues are solved