Re: bootloaders and USB

2010-06-28 Thread Danny Engelbarts
On Monday 28 June 2010 01:35:40 Eric Miller wrote: > do most of the standard bootloaders (grub/,lilo, etc) have the ability to > boot to usb even when the BIOS doesn't natively support boot to usb or > floppy emulation? Most standard bootloaders do not, i believe the smartbootmanager would be able

Re: Problem installing the "nouveau" driver

2010-06-28 Thread alupu
Hi Aleksandar, Andy, Neil, Simon and all the other great participants in this thread: Jun 22, 11:54:28 AM, Alex wrote: > At that point ("nouveau" Udev load? ), the screen goes > blank for a split second then continues OK all the way > to the console prompt. > Note: The screen resolution switches

Re: Weird issue with Texlive 2010

2010-06-28 Thread Mike McCarty
William Immendorf wrote: > When I try to convert a Texinfo document into a DVI/PS file or an PDF > file, texi2dvi complains that texinfo.tex is broken, despite it being That's the exact full error message? "texinfo.tex is broken"? Mike -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,3

building lfs on hardened host

2010-06-28 Thread x yyyyyy
Hi all! Is it possible to build an lfs system from a gentoo hardened host? (It has a modified compiler than a regular desktop gentoo.) Thank you. bendeguz -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above inf

Re: bootloaders and USB

2010-06-28 Thread Eric Miller
"If plop functions perfectly, extract its files, extract its initrd/initramfs and create a better one. At least examine how they made it work." it's a binary file, compiled. On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Neal Murphy wrote: > On Monday 28 June 2010 10:05:33 Eric Miller wrote: > > i'm trying t

Re: bootloaders and USB

2010-06-28 Thread Neal Murphy
On Monday 28 June 2010 10:05:33 Eric Miller wrote: > i'm trying to avoid using plop, the interface is very ugly and this is for > a professional project. > > plop functions perfectly thoughit just looks like a video game from > 1985. > > could I do a full boot into a small linux like tinycore a

Re: bootloaders and USB

2010-06-28 Thread Eric Miller
i'm trying to avoid using plop, the interface is very ugly and this is for a professional project. plop functions perfectly thoughit just looks like a video game from 1985. could I do a full boot into a small linux like tinycore and then do some kind of scripted chroot? On Mon, Jun 28, 2010

Re: bootloaders and USB

2010-06-28 Thread Smartboy
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 5:12 AM, Andrew Benton wrote: > On 28/06/10 00:35, Eric Miller wrote: >> do most of the standard bootloaders (grub/,lilo, etc) have the ability >> to boot to usb even when the BIOS doesn't natively support boot to usb >> or floppy emulation? >> > I don't think so. I don't k

Re: bootloaders and USB

2010-06-28 Thread Andrew Benton
On 28/06/10 00:35, Eric Miller wrote: > do most of the standard bootloaders (grub/,lilo, etc) have the ability > to boot to usb even when the BIOS doesn't natively support boot to usb > or floppy emulation? > I don't think so. I don't know about lilo. I don't think that grub has the drivers to do

bootloaders and USB

2010-06-28 Thread JimD.
> > > do most of the standard bootloaders (grub/,lilo, etc) have the ability to > boot to usb even when the BIOS doesn't natively support boot to usb or > floppy emulation? > A qualified no. The qualifier is you could use a plop cd to boot to USB. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/l