Re: installing on x86_64

2007-05-29 Thread Constantine Kousoulos
Thank you for your reply. After so much time, i had totally given up on grub2. I have a debian-amd64/unstable system running on a turion64 processor with gcc 4.1.3, autoconf 2.61 and automake 1.10. I will try again to install grub2 using your instructions and report back. Constantine ___

Re: patch for partmap probing on RAID/LVM

2007-05-29 Thread Sam Morris
On Tue, 29 May 2007 14:37:02 +1200, Centurion Computer Technology (2005) Ltd wrote: > On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 03:49 +0100, Sam Morris wrote: >> Here's the beginning of a patch for grub-probe itself to make it handle >> RAID/LVM more intelligently. This will work for the most common >> use-cases; the

Is it possible to issue a VBE3.0 call from Grub (1.95) to set desired refresh rate?

2007-05-29 Thread Dimitry Golubovsky
Hi, I am using Linux 2.6 on x86-64 with framebuffer console, VIA Unichrome integrated graphics chip on a VIA K9MM-V motherboard. When the videomode is set using Linux kernel boot options (video=vesafb vga=...), default refresh rate is 60Hz which causes visible blinking on a CRT monitor. The vesa

Re: installing on x86_64

2007-05-29 Thread Constantine Kousoulos
Jerone, thanks to your instructions grub2 was installed automagically!! The only thing that wasn't set up automatically was grub.cfg but this is a minor issue to resolve. Are there any objections to replace the wiki's inaccurate instructions at the section "TestingOnX86/Installing GRUB 2 int

Re: Is it possible to issue a VBE3.0 call from Grub (1.95) to set desired refresh rate?

2007-05-29 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 10:03:35AM -0400, Dimitry Golubovsky wrote: > Hi, > > I am using Linux 2.6 on x86-64 with framebuffer console, VIA Unichrome > integrated graphics chip on a VIA K9MM-V motherboard. > > When the videomode is set using Linux kernel boot options > (video=vesafb vga=...), defa

Re: installing on x86_64

2007-05-29 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 06:39:04PM +0300, Constantine Kousoulos wrote: > Jerone, thanks to your instructions grub2 was installed > automagically!! > > The only thing that wasn't set up automatically was grub.cfg but > this is a minor issue to resolve. You can use update-grub for that. -- Robe

multiboot header error

2007-05-29 Thread Constantine Kousoulos
After successfully installing GRUB2 from cvs (thanks Jerone!), i decided to further test it on my amd64 machine. At first, i built the sample kernel from http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/multiboot/multiboot.html#Example-OS-code using the '-m32' gcc flag and by marking boot.S with the '.

Re: patch for partmap probing on RAID/LVM

2007-05-29 Thread Centurion Computer Technology (2005) Ltd
On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 11:00 +, Sam Morris wrote: > On Tue, 29 May 2007 14:37:02 +1200, Centurion Computer Technology (2005) > Ltd wrote: > > > On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 03:49 +0100, Sam Morris wrote: > >> Here's the beginning of a patch for grub-probe itself to make it handle > >> RAID/LVM more in