Re: Problems with Grub

2011-08-18 Thread Giorgio Cittadini
RESOLVED!!! The suggestion to use BLFS SVN as a progressive complement to LFS-6.8 has been successfull, at least as regards GPM 1.20.6, that could be installed without any patch (and actually works well). Thanks again. Giorgio Cittadini 2011/8/18 Giorgio Cittadini : > Thanks for your suggestion

Re: Problems with Grub

2011-08-18 Thread Giorgio Cittadini
Thanks for your suggestion. I'll try in the next days and I'll keep you informed about the hoped success. Giorgio Cittadini 2011/8/18 William Immendorf : > On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 2:51 AM, Giorgio Cittadini wrote: >> I hope I'm not becoming tedious, but, while running along BLFS avenue, >> I enc

Re: Problems with Grub

2011-08-18 Thread William Immendorf
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 2:51 AM, Giorgio Cittadini wrote: > I hope I'm not becoming tedious, but, while running along BLFS avenue, > I encountered a big problem: I don't succeed in installing GPM-1.20.1. > I followed LFS-Book-6.8 and now BLFS-Book-6.3. I always get the errors > here reported: Plea

Re: Problems with Grub

2011-08-18 Thread Giorgio Cittadini
Hi all, probably you know that my GRUB problem was RESOLVED. Your suggestions were very important. I hope I'm not becoming tedious, but, while running along BLFS avenue, I encountered a big problem: I don't succeed in installing GPM-1.20.1. I followed LFS-Book-6.8 and now BLFS-Book-6.3. I always g

Re: Problems with Grub

2011-08-17 Thread Mike McCarty
Giorgio Cittadini wrote: > RESOLVED!!! Congratulations! And thanks for posting the fix. Mac -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);} Oppose globalization and One World Governments like the UN. This message made from 100% recycled bits. You have found the bank of Lar

Re: Problems with Grub

2011-08-17 Thread Andrew Benton
On Wed, 17 Aug 2011 08:31:06 +0200 Giorgio Cittadini wrote: > (5) But also if I manually modify grub.cfg introducing the new > menuentry (and, obviously, I don't use grub-mkconfig), nothing > changes. Then you are not modifying the grub.cfg that grub (the one on the MBR) is using. You have sever

Re: Problems with Grub

2011-08-17 Thread Simon Geard
On Wed, 2011-08-17 at 08:31 +0200, Giorgio Cittadini wrote: > Could there be a bug in the tarball of grub? I don't think it > possible, since the other OSs do use grub2 successfully (one in the > 1.98, the other in the 1.99 version). Not likely, since it's the same tarball that works fine for ever

Re: Problems with Grub

2011-08-17 Thread Giorgio Cittadini
RESOLVED!!! The error was that I wrote the new menuentries in grub.cfg under the voice ###BEGIN /usr/etc/grub.d/40_custom, while it was necessary to write them under the voice ###BEGIN /usr/etc/grub.d/10_linux. This recognized it was very easy to get a multiboot "LFS | ArchLinux | Ubuntu-Plus-7 | W

Re: Problems with Grub

2011-08-16 Thread Giorgio Cittadini
To the attention of Andy and Mac (with many thanks for having considered my problem). This is how the things go. I installed LFS-6.8 on a notebook HP Pavilion dv6215ea with i386 dual core CPU. My situation at the moment is the following: (1) 500 GB HD partitioned so to have Windows 7 (reserved) i

Re: Problems with Grub

2011-08-16 Thread Mike McCarty
Andrew Benton wrote: > On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:46:46 -0500 > Mike McCarty wrote: >> Andrew Benton wrote: >>> You don't need to reinstall grub. If it's working Ok and you can boot >>> into LFS then just edit grub.cfg to make an entry for windows, >>> something like this: >>> >>> menuentry "Windows"

Re: Problems with Grub

2011-08-16 Thread Andrew Benton
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:46:46 -0500 Mike McCarty wrote: > Andrew Benton wrote: > > You don't need to reinstall grub. If it's working Ok and you can boot > > into LFS then just edit grub.cfg to make an entry for windows, > > something like this: > > > > menuentry "Windows" { > >set root=(hd0,1)

Re: Problems with Grub

2011-08-16 Thread Mike McCarty
Andrew Benton wrote: Giorgio wrote: [...] >> What to do? Could you suggest where I mistook? What to do now: remove >> (but how?) Grub and reinstall it? GRUB is not something to "remove". If one no longer wants GRUB, then one simply overwrites it with something else. > You don't need to reinst

Re: Problems with Grub

2011-08-16 Thread Mike McCarty
Giorgio Cittadini wrote: > Hi all, > I'm very happy because I just finished to install LFS-6.8 easily > following the very precise Book, with only a problem resolved thanks to > the help by Andrew Benton. Congratulations! I don't know enough about GRUB to help you with your problem getting to mul

Re: Problems with Grub

2011-08-16 Thread Andrew Benton
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 17:52:44 +0200 Giorgio Cittadini wrote: > All is OK, but when I've booted the first time using Grub, I found only > "Linux 2.6.37-lfs-6.8" and "its recovery mode". I tried to make > recognizable the presence of Windows 7, but I got no success. > When I control the structure of

Problems with Grub

2011-08-16 Thread Giorgio Cittadini
Hi all, I'm very happy because I just finished to install LFS-6.8 easily following the very precise Book, with only a problem resolved thanks to the help by Andrew Benton. My host was Ubuntu 11.4 with Pentium Dual Core. All is OK, but when I've booted the first time using Grub, I found only "Linux