grub2 can't boot without active partition on Intel DG965RY

2007-07-13 Thread Jeff Chua
I've used grub2 on many Lenovo notebooks and Dell servers without any problem, but on the Intel DG965RY motherboard, it can't see the grub menu if the grub disk partition is not made active. Error is not boot device found. Simply activating the partition (fdisk -> select "a" to activate) would boo

Re: grub2 can't boot without active partition on Intel DG965RY

2007-07-13 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 08:05:46PM +0800, Jeff Chua wrote: > I've used grub2 on many Lenovo notebooks and Dell servers without any > problem, but on the Intel DG965RY motherboard, it can't see the grub > menu if the grub disk partition is not made active. Error is not boot > device found. Simply ac

Re: memory management issue (Re: another regression on Efika)

2007-07-13 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 03:32:30PM -0500, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > > > In short, whatever is causing these crashes is not only an Efika issue. > > > I suspect Apple, or Apple powerbooks at least, are also affected. I got > > > Sjoerd to try this on his powerbook, and he confirms this fixes for him

Re: OF disk naming scheme (Re: another regression on Efika)

2007-07-13 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 09:26:27PM +0200, Jordi Mallach wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 04:10:52PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > What naming/numbering scheme does this follow when you add more disks? > > hd, hd1, hd2. Luckily Mozillion has Firewire disks. My Efika counts: hd, hd0 ... IEEE 127

Re: GRUB_IEEE1275_FLAG_NO_PARTITION_0

2007-07-13 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 03:26:43PM -0500, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 17:05 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > What's the point of GRUB_IEEE1275_FLAG_NO_PARTITION_0 ? We have code that > > checks this flag, but nobody initialises it: > > > > disk/ieee1275/ofdisk.c: if (! grub_

Re: grub2 can't boot without active partition on Intel DG965RY

2007-07-13 Thread Jeff Chua
On 7/13/07, Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 08:05:46PM +0800, Jeff Chua wrote: Sounds like a BIOS bug. Does GRUB Legacy work when partition is not active? I'll try that out next week. Thanks, Jeff. ___ Grub-dev