Re: Problems with grub-reboot/savedefault/default=saved

2010-01-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 02:28:03PM -0800, Jordan Uggla wrote: > 1: grub-reboot doesn't restore the default after rebooting, making it > effectively equivalent to grub-set-default. This is because the > savedefault functionality currently saves the entry you boot from as the > new default even wh

Re: Problems with grub-reboot/savedefault/default=saved

2010-01-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 12:37:17AM -0800, Jordan Uggla wrote: > I found another bug. For some reason grub-reboot ( the utility ) > checks if prev_saved_entry ( which has just been set equal to > saved_entry ) is empty ( zero length or unset ), and if it is > unsets it. This makes grub-reboot ag

Re: Problems with grub-reboot/savedefault/default=saved

2010-01-05 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Colin Watson wrote: >> 4: Even with the first grub-reboot fix the default is still not restored >> when grubenv is not writable ( /boot on lvm for example ). Since >> grub-reboot can't work without a writable grubenv it's at least safer to >> boot into the "real" default instead of the "temporar

Re: Problems with grub-reboot/savedefault/default=saved

2010-01-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 12:33:23PM +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > I don't understand why /boot on LVM should mean that grubenv is not > > writable. The point of grubenv is to be a short chunk of contiguous > > reserved disk space which can be written

Re: GRUB Faq

2010-01-05 Thread Lapohos Tibor
Inspired by my own problems, in a seIfish way, I would suggest "Grub2 and RAID" + section 3.8.   Also, I think sections 2.2.5 and 2.2.6 could take a bit of a touch-up, or extension, if you will. Especially the last sentence of 2.2.6. IMHO, the real thing is to be able to do everything from scrat

Re: grub-setup: error: no mapping exists for ... in GRUB2 v1.97.1 on fake (IMSM) RAID

2010-01-05 Thread Lapohos Tibor
Thanks for the help. I consider this case closed till GRUB reaches that certain development state.   I tried a totally different approach, I guess one would call it "GRUB on pure software RAID", and I bumped into a new problem. I'll describe it under a new thread.   Thanks again, Tibor --- On

GRUB update problems

2010-01-05 Thread Henry W. Peters
I run Debian Lenny sid/squeeze, the updater this morning just "updated" my GRUB2 version... (not sure of the version). Anyway, I have a Dell S1909 WX monitor at resolution 1440 x 900 (analogue) at 60 Hz. (the recommended resolution). I do dual boot with Windows XP (sp3) & besides a GNOME deskt

Re: GRUB update problems

2010-01-05 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Dienstag, den 05.01.2010, 13:07 -0500 schrieb Henry W. Peters: > I run Debian Lenny sid/squeeze, the updater this morning just > "updated" > my GRUB2 version... (not sure of the version). normally it doestn't make sense to have stable (lenny), testing (squeeze) and unstable (sid) in /etc/apt/s

Embedding area too small... (GRUB2 on software RAID1)

2010-01-05 Thread Lapohos Tibor
Hello,   I successfully set up an Intel Matrix Raid device with a RAID1 and a RAID0 volume, each having a couple of partitions, but then I could not install GRUB2 on the RAID1 volume, which I wanted to use to boot from and mount as root. It turned out that the "IMSM" metadata is not supported in

EFI boot problem with MBP 5,4

2010-01-05 Thread Daire Byrne
Hi, It looks like recent kernels (namely 2.6.31 and 2.6.32) can't find the initrd when booting from grub (efi) on a macbook pro 5,4 giving the error: RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0. The 2.6.30 kernel does not seem to suffer from this so something must have changed in

Re: GRUB Faq

2010-01-05 Thread Lapohos Tibor
Sorry for the former silly lines. I've just realized, I wrote based on a document made of what you, developers, are saying, with my formatting on top.   To clarify, I was talking about the headings:   Building / Installation from Source Build Prerequisites Example grub.cfg for RAID (and I see you

Re: GRUB update problems

2010-01-05 Thread Henry W. Peters
Felix Zielcke wrote: Am Dienstag, den 05.01.2010, 13:07 -0500 schrieb Henry W. Peters: I run Debian Lenny sid/squeeze, the updater this morning just "updated" my GRUB2 version... (not sure of the version). normally it doestn't make sense to have stable (lenny), testing (squeeze) and

Re: GRUB update problems

2010-01-05 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Dienstag, den 05.01.2010, 13:58 -0500 schrieb Henry W. Peters: > > Felix Zielcke wrote: > > Am Dienstag, den 05.01.2010, 13:07 -0500 schrieb Henry W. Peters: > > > >> I run Debian Lenny sid/squeeze, the updater this morning just > >> "updated" > >> my GRUB2 version... (not sure of the versi

Re: GRUB update problems

2010-01-05 Thread Henry W. Peters
Felix Zielcke wrote: Am Dienstag, den 05.01.2010, 13:58 -0500 schrieb Henry W. Peters: Then I did check the /etc/default/grub file, & this is what I got (I took out the '# at the GRUB_GFXMODE=1440x900' & changed the resolution... I tried doing an '#update-grub' both in the terminal while bo

Re: GRUB Faq

2010-01-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Lapohos Tibor wrote: To clarify, I was talking about the headings: Building / Installation from Source Build Prerequisites Example This is covered in the INSTALL file. I've submitted a new one, but it hasn't been committed. In the meantime you can get most of what you need from: http://w