Re: UEFI. Running grub only once functionality

2010-02-03 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 03/02/10 10:04, George Buranov wrote: Hello everybody. <#inbox> I got situation: I need to load linux kernel from grub, that can easily fail on some computers (even in production). I use grub to load this and the only this kernel. So, what I want to do is to load another OS loader, if grub (o

Re: grub2 architecture

2010-03-23 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 23/03/10 07:00, yu.haife...@zte.com.cn wrote: > > I am a newboy,I want to join the designing,but I donn't known the > grub2'architecture, > despite of having reading most of the code of the grub legacy. > > Aynone can help me? A very old high level summary (wow grub2 is in dev a long time) h

Re: [PATCH] Improve documentation of BIOS installation

2011-03-29 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 29/03/11 13:40, Colin Watson wrote: > +@node BIOS installation > +@section BIOS installation This is a good summary. > +(called by > +various names, such as the "boot track", "MBR gap", or "embedding area", and > +which is usually at least 31 KiB), Maybe mention the original name/reason; "DOS

Re: [PATCH] Improve documentation of BIOS installation

2011-03-30 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 29/03/11 16:12, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 02:11:45PM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote: >> On 29/03/11 13:40, Colin Watson wrote: >>> +(called by >>> +various names, such as the "boot track", "MBR gap", or "embedding a

Re: making grub completely silent

2006-06-09 Thread Pádraig Brady
Mario Emmenlauer wrote: > > Hello, > > this is a continued thread from [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have taken > it here (thanks Jerome) where it seems to suit better. > > A short abstract: > I'd like to have an option to make grub be less verbose. > I was thinking about an numeric verbosity level that w

Re: when is menu.lst read in grub process

2006-09-22 Thread Pádraig Brady
Damon Register wrote: > After a while of Googling, reading grub documentation and struggling > to understand some of grub, I am still stuck. I had the same issue when I had to setup grub in a non standard way. I read the source and documented the process here: http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/disk/

Re: help to understand grub steps

2007-10-10 Thread Pádraig Brady
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hello everyone! > i have a few questions about grub steps! > i know that when i start the pc: > 1-the cpu loads the bios > 2-bios controls that every component is functional and loads the stage 1 > that is stored in the MBR > 3-stage 1 loads the stage 2 that is stored som