Re: grub not updating MBR?

2005-03-24 Thread Peter B. Steiger
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 07:41:21 -0700, Scott sez: > Try menu.lst - ie, lowercase ell instead of one. Oh, for the love of Woz... that was exactly it. I blame it on the fixed font that Firefox uses to display the user input text! Also the fact that the software my company sells uses "application-nam

Anyone tried "How to Build a Minimal Linux System from Source Code" of Greg K.?

2005-03-24 Thread lin q
Hi, I know LFS is more complete and reliable compared to G. O'Keef version linux build, but it seems his version more suits my need, a toy linux that I can see the BASH prompt. The latest version I can find in google is 0.8, I tried it, but after installing SysVinit, according to the book I r

Re: grub not updating MBR?

2005-03-24 Thread Greg Newton
> Peter B. Steiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I bought new hardware and I'm using the new hard drive as the target > for a > new LFS. Until the new system is bootable, the drives are configured > like > this: > > hda1 /boot > hda2 /fat32 (Win98 install) > hda5 swap > hda6 / > hda7 /va

Re: grub not updating MBR?

2005-03-24 Thread Scott
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 02:48:40PM -0700, Peter B. Steiger wrote: > > I created a menu.1st file that looks like this: Try menu.lst - ie, lowercase ell instead of one. Reminds me of a long-ago program I wrote. One of the users had the habit acquired on ancient typewriters of using the ell key for

RE: grub boot problems

2005-03-24 Thread ULStudent:Donal.Farrell
well at this stage, i'd compiled the new 2.6.8.1 LFS kernel, but I wasn't running it yet, as I hadn't rebooted, so my SuSe kernel with 9.2 is a 2.6.4.x kernel. when i did reboot to get into LFS, it said that it could not boot anything on that partition -Original Message- From: Andrew Bento