As reported by Luca Capello in Debian BTS:
The following grub.cfg menuentry has a syntax error. However, grub won't
display an error message and let you continue. Instead, it will start an
infin loop, rendering the machine unbootable:
menuentry "test" { $ }
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Robert Millan
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Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 10:30:33AM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote:
>> Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> > When using gfxterm, and booting a kernel in this mode, Linux won't be able
>> > to
>> > print anything to the console. This patch fixes
"Javier RodrÃguez Sánchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello, I have tried the patch and it works well, but I have one question.
> It's necessary to be a MBR partition scheme? because I need a MBR
> emulation from the GPT scheme to Grub2 loader works. If I only let the GPT
> scheme with the EF
Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> I've looked into this, but I need some advice. What's the simplest way to
> obtain the corresponding grub_partition_t structure for a partition by knowing
> its drive name?
You can use grub_partition_iterate. Or open the disk and use
->partitio
Hi,
Is it possible to archieve a similar effect to what "color cyan/blue white/blue"
does in grub legacy, but with grub2 gfxterm?
This setup has been the default in debian for a while, and we need to provide
something similar if we don't want our users to miss the "blue thingy" during
the big mi
Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hi Robert,
> Is it possible to archieve a similar effect to what "color cyan/blue
> white/blue"
> does in grub legacy, but with grub2 gfxterm?
You could implement a color command, which does the same as the color
command in GRUB Legacy. All terminals h
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 06:36:03PM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote:
> Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Hi Robert,
>
> > Is it possible to archieve a similar effect to what "color cyan/blue
> > white/blue"
> > does in grub legacy, but with grub2 gfxterm?
>
> You could implement a color c
Marco Gerards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If having a color command means that GRUB 2 will be used more, I am
> willing to add such command. Okuji, do you object? But I am only
> willing to add this if the Debian people ensure me that they will
> switch to whatever fancy graphics system we imp
update-grub needs grub-probe to run, which is only available in i386.
In principle, this file should be portable. I made this patch (currently
applied in debian) to enable it on powerpc as well. However, it seems to
have runtime errors (detects size of hd0 as 0 bytes) that I can't debug
(becaus
