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nE0
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 Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2002 8:01 am Post subject: GRUB version in gentoo, etc.. |
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Does anybody know which version of GRUB a default gentoo install is running ?
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Ok, that is probably 0.92
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Question 2:
Does anybody know the limitations from the splash.xpm.gz image file.
I.E. size, bpp # of colors..
Question 3:
Does anybody know a location where to download the latest version af grub (source is ok.)
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I found this one myself.. 
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Reason: I want to play around with grub on a test machine here at work, but this machine is not running gentoo.
Thx..
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citizen428
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| Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2002 12:26 pm Post subject: Re: GRUB version in gentoo, etc.. |
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Does anybody know which version of GRUB a default gentoo install is running ?
Mine says 0.90-r7
Does anybody know the limitations from the splash.xpm.gz image file.
I.E. size, bpp # of colors..
640x480, 14 colors. There's is a GIMP plugin which exports images as
GRUB splashscreens. Maybe ask google, I forgot the exact location.
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I was bored at work and did the search:
http://registry.gimp.org/plugin?id=1883
Does anybody know a location where to download the latest version af grub (source is ok.)
http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group=grub
Hope that helps,
Michael |
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arkane
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| Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2002 4:43 pm Post subject: |
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And to tie in another question:
How do I make grub actually know the floppy is there on boot, instead of timing out in a search for it before it gets to the menu?
grub does that 2 times, once for the first "loading..." line, and another for the second where it's loading stage1_5 or whatever.
It's very disconcerting....
Tried lilo, but thats just a whole other ball of wax I'm using LVM, and it appears no matter if I tell it a boot param, initrd param, or what, it still bombs out saying no init= found.
I like grub better... so I wanna fix it. |
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Regor
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| Posted: Thu Aug 15, 2002 1:59 am Post subject: |
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| arkane wrote: | And to tie in another question:
How do I make grub actually know the floppy is there on boot, instead of timing out in a search for it before it gets to the menu?
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Turn off booting from floppy in your BIOS and add the following section to menu.lst:
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title Floppy
root (fd0)
chainloader +1
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It's much nicer than having that stupid floppy drive grinding away or machine complaining when a non-bootable disk is in floppy drive. |
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nE0
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| Posted: Thu Aug 15, 2002 5:09 am Post subject: |
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| arkane wrote: | And to tie in another question:
How do I make grub actually know the floppy is there on boot, instead of timing out in a search for it before it gets to the menu?
grub does that 2 times, once for the first "loading..." line, and another for the second where it's loading stage1_5 or whatever.
It's very disconcerting....
Tried lilo, but thats just a whole other ball of wax I'm using LVM, and it appears no matter if I tell it a boot param, initrd param, or what, it still bombs out saying no init= found.
I like grub better... so I wanna fix it. |
I think you mean that when installing grub, you enter "grub" and it starts looking for your floppy..
I have a problem with my floppydrive, so I stopped grub, and started grub with "grub --no-floppy"
Thanks for the replies..
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