os-prober incorrectly generates stanza - wrong root= device.

2009-10-27 Thread Chris Jones
While detecting other kernels, update-grub generates the following: menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.24-etchnhalf.1-686 (on /dev/sda12)" { insmod ext2 set root=(hd0,12)

Re: os-prober incorrectly generates stanza - wrong root= device.

2009-10-28 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 05:55:29AM EDT, Felix Zielcke wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 27.10.2009, 23:23 -0400 schrieb Chris Jones: [..] > > Not sure this qualifies as a bug, or just incorrect setup my end. > > > os-prober is a seperate package. It has nothing to do with us, except

USB device not seen by grub

2009-12-02 Thread Chris Jones
I am trying to have grub boot off a partition on a USB stick. I issued the following command from the grub command line: % insmod uhci grub was hung and I had to do a hard reset. Is this to be expected, considering that this is a fairly old system and the BIOS knows nothing about USB devices.

Re: USB device not seen by grub

2009-12-03 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 10:16:17AM EST, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > Chris Jones wrote: > > I am trying to have grub boot off a partition on a USB stick. > > > > > You can't chainload to disk invisible by BIOS. But you can load >

Re: USB device not seen by grub

2009-12-03 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 03:02:27PM EST, Duboucher Thomas wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 [..] > You could do this easily using a serial null-modem cable, but I don't > think you have one. :( ;-) Another fascinating hardware aspect I never got down to investigating

Re: USB device not seen by grub

2009-12-03 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 03:24:31PM EST, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > Chris Jones wrote: > >> Can you issue: > >> debug=all > >> insmod uhci > >> insmod usbms > >> debug=all > >> ls -l > >> debug= >

Re: USB device not seen by grub

2009-12-03 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 03:24:31PM EST, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > Chris Jones wrote: > >> Can you issue: > >> debug=all > >> insmod uhci > >> insmod usbms > >> debug=all > >> ls -l > >> debug= &g

Re: USB device not seen by grub

2009-12-03 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 05:52:37PM EST, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > Chris Jones wrote: [..] > > Barring typos or omissions, the trace reveals that the perceived > > 'hang' after issuing 'insmod uhci' is in fact grub looping ov

Re: USB device not seen by grub

2009-12-03 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 05:52:37PM EST, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > Chris Jones wrote: [..] > > Barring typos or omissions, the trace reveals that the perceived > > 'hang' after issuing 'insmod uhci' is in fact grub looping ov

[solved] Re: USB device not seen by grub

2009-12-04 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 05:52:37PM EST, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: [..] > This is just module loading. I guess your terminal is slow which causes > an enormous slowback when loading module. You can using > debug=usb,uhci,ohci > instead of > debug=all I was able to boot the pa

Re: [solved] Re: USB device not seen by grub

2009-12-04 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 09:58:23PM EST, richardvo...@gmail.com wrote: > On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Chris Jones wrote: [..] > > Why do I have to enable tracing to make it work? > > Yesterday Vladimir wrote: > > (quote) > There is an issue that somewhere grub mis

Re: [solved] Re: USB device not seen by grub

2009-12-10 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 04:16:45AM EST, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > Chris Jones wrote: [..] > > Why do I have to enable tracing to make it work? > > > Because a dprintf acted as a forgotten millisleep. This patch should > fix it. On my mach

Re: [solved] Re: USB device not seen by grub

2009-12-22 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 04:16:45AM EST, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > Chris Jones wrote: Hello Vladimir, [..] > > Also, is there any way I can run the grub command line on a system > > that's already booted, so I can explore its possibities

Re: GRUB 1.98 available in debian lenny, How to get fancy terminal ?

2010-01-07 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 09:29:57AM EST, J. Bakshi wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I am happy to see the availability of grub 1.98 in debian lenny after > the up-gradation I did yesterday night. The /boot/grub folder now > contains unicode.pf2, unicode.ppf as well as GRUBtheme folder > containing wi

Re: Starfield theme font quality

2014-01-13 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 08:25:48AM EST, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > I was rather shocked when I tried to use starfield theme. Theme itself > and menu are very nice but command like and menu editing is near to > unusable. See screenshot. Is it some local problem or others see the > same? Not sure if

Re: How to exit from linux kernel and return to then grub?

2014-05-18 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 01:33:15AM EDT, Z C wrote: [..] > If you are within one shell and you enter another shell, then if you want > to quit the second shell and return back to the first shell, just simply > type exit. All env variables and commands you previous typed in the first > shell are co

Re: Grub2 theme error: "png: interlace method not supported"

2014-05-22 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 06:14:42PM EDT, John Hupp wrote: > I'm trying to design a theme, and I'm using a certain png file for > both desktop-image and GRUB_BACKGROUND. After I update-grub and > reboot, I get error: png: interlace method not supported. [...] Open the png in the Gimp and "export"

Re: Grub2 theme error: "png: interlace method not supported"

2014-05-23 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 02:35:44PM EDT, John Hupp wrote: > On 5/22/2014 1:32 PM, Chris Jones wrote: [...] > Exporting to a png without interlacing solved the problem. Thanks for > the help! Any time... As to your other dilemma, the closest you'll get to a "grub users

Re: Simplified Chinese screenshots

2010-02-01 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 04:32:14PM EST, Carles Pina i Estany wrote: > > Hi, > > Aron Xu sent me some screenshots of Grub booting time in Chinese: > > http://carles.lastdot.org/Screenshot-QEMU.png > http://carles.lastdot.org/Screenshot-QEMU-1.png > http://carles.lastdot.org/Screenshot-QEMU-2.png

Re: Simplified Chinese screenshots

2010-02-02 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 05:36:40PM EST, Carles Pina i Estany wrote: > > Hi, > > On Feb/01/2010, Chris Jones wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 04:32:14PM EST, Carles Pina i Estany wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > Aron Xu se

Re: Simplified Chinese screenshots

2010-02-02 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 05:54:31PM EST, Bruce Dubbs wrote: [..] > Yes, I'm working on documentation, but am concentrating on user level > docs. Programing documentation is another matter. > > Progress is slow due to outside commitments, but I'm close to updating > all the web (not wiki) page

Re: grub-cd

2010-12-10 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 05:18:15AM EST, thanos migosch wrote: > Original-Nachricht > Datum: Tue, 07 Dec 2010 14:53:19 +0100 > Von: "thanos migosch" > An: help-g...@gnu.org > Betreff: cd > > I am missing a tutorial for making a "Grub-CD" > which is useful because > 1. its big e

Re: grub-cd

2010-12-15 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 08:53:47AM EST, thanos migosch wrote: > not really. > ive seen some things when i made my last grub disk there was sth like > stage1.eltorito .. > please help .. Sorry, was way behind with my mail and thought I was on a debian mailing list when I wrote that for some reaso

Re: grub-cd

2010-12-16 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 07:02:04AM EST, thanos migosch wrote: > you're best.. > tanx Not sure about that.. thank the FSF and the author of the manual :-) cj ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-dev

Documentation bug?

2011-01-24 Thread Chris Jones
Sorry for the catchy ’Subject:’ above, I am not sure at this point whether it is appropriate. I plan to make extensive changes to a multi-boot environment and I looked in ‘GNU GRUB Manual 1.99~beta0’ for a way to create a CD/DVD that would reflect the state of my grub environment, (including my /b

Re: Documentation bug?

2011-01-24 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 09:22:36PM EST, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Chris Jones wrote: >> I plan to make extensive changes to a multi-boot environment and >> I looked in ‘GNU GRUB Manual 1.99~beta0’ for a way to create a CD/DVD >> that would reflect the state of my grub envir

Re: Documentation bug?

2011-01-25 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 10:39:48PM EST, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Chris Jones wrote: [..] > You referred to grub.cfg and stage2*. AFAIK those are GRUB Legacy and > not GRUB 2. > > There does indeed seem to be a problem with the GRUB 2 documentation. > Most of the files in /usr/lib

Re: Documentation bug?

2011-01-25 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 10:07:24PM EST, richardvo...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > > > I have just downloaded a tarball of grub-1.99~rc1, and a ‘find’ command > > on the untarred tree did not return any positives either. > > > > What tarball have you downloaded? Source code, probably. Good question.

Re: Documentation bug?

2011-01-26 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:46:57AM EST, KESHAV P.R. wrote: > You can take a look at grub-mkrescue shell script in utils dir to find > out how to create a bootable grub2 cd. Yes, it was as simple as: | $ mkdir /tmp/iso | $ grub-mkrescue -o grub.iso /boot/grub | $ growisofs etc. I booted from

Re: Documentation bug?

2011-01-28 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 12:17:56PM EST, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 09:10:41PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > > My understanding is that the correct procedure is described in section > > 3.2 of the above manual: Making a GRUB bootable CD-ROM. > > > > T

vi-like keys on grub menu

2011-05-30 Thread Chris Jones
I'm so used to using ‘hjkl’ rather than the ‘arrow’ keys that I would like to be able to use them to move around the grub menu entries. Is this configurable? If not, has this already been requested, and possibly rejected as frivolous? Aren't there keyboards out there any more that do not have ar

Resizing moving & deleting partitions

2011-10-16 Thread Chris Jones
Lately, I had to increase the size of the partition where grub-pc is managed. Upon rebooting, the grub menu had become inaccessible, all I could see was an "Error: file not found". As far as I can remember, there was also a shell-like prompt with "rescue" or "grub rescue" followed by the greater th

Re: Resizing moving & deleting partitions

2011-10-21 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 06:52:40PM EDT, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > On 17.10.2011 00:40, Chris Jones wrote: > > Lately, I had to increase the size of the partition where grub-pc is > > managed. Upon rebooting, the grub menu had become inaccessible, a