Re: grub reinstall / grub keeps rebooting

2014-12-07 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Samuel Thibault wrote: Did you try to put a linux partition on this box too? The idea would be to check whether its grub has the same kind of issue. no, not yet. Btw, they are two boxes now! The HDD is not big enough. But I could try on another HDD temporarily, perhaps the best bet would b

Re: grub reinstall / grub keeps rebooting

2014-12-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Did you try to put a linux partition on this box too? The idea would be to check whether its grub has the same kind of issue. Samuel

Re: grub reinstall / grub keeps rebooting

2014-12-04 Thread Justus Winter
Hello, Quoting Riccardo Mottola (2014-12-04 17:44:28) > Riccardo Mottola wrote: > > I installed everything on a "host" machine (same architecture as my > > target box, just more ram and more Mhz). I end up with something > > bootable! > > However if I put the disk in my original box, it just kee

Re: grub reinstall / grub keeps rebooting

2014-12-04 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Riccardo Mottola wrote: Hi, I installed everything on a "host" machine (same architecture as my target box, just more ram and more Mhz). I end up with something bootable! However if I put the disk in my original box, it just keeps rebooting, I don't even get the grub screen. Thus I suppo

Re: grub-probe/update-grub/reconfigure gnumach-image disasters fixed

2013-05-06 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, On 05/02/13 01:47, Samuel Thibault wrote: Hello, The latest commit in gnumach should be fixing the disasters that some people have been seeing in their hurd system. This was due to an improper handling of non-block-aligned reads in the gnumach linux block glue, which happens only if partiti

Re: grub-probe/update-grub/reconfigure gnumach-image disasters fixed

2013-05-03 Thread Svante Signell
On Thu, 2013-05-02 at 23:52 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Svante Signell, le Thu 02 May 2013 12:14:46 +0200, a écrit : > > On Thu, 2013-05-02 at 01:47 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > But I guess you were still running the old kernel while doing this? > > You need to reboot with the new kernel t

Re: grub-probe/update-grub/reconfigure gnumach-image disasters fixed

2013-05-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
Svante Signell, le Thu 02 May 2013 12:14:46 +0200, a écrit : > On Thu, 2013-05-02 at 01:47 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > The latest commit in gnumach should be fixing the disasters that some > > people have been seeing in their hurd system. This was due to an > > improper handling of non-block-

Re: grub-probe/update-grub/reconfigure gnumach-image disasters fixed

2013-05-02 Thread Svante Signell
On Thu, 2013-05-02 at 01:47 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hello, > > The latest commit in gnumach should be fixing the disasters that some > people have been seeing in their hurd system. This was due to an > improper handling of non-block-aligned reads in the gnumach linux block > glue, which ha

Re: grub-probe/update-grub/reconfigure gnumach-image disasters fixed

2013-05-02 Thread Svante Signell
On Thu, 2013-05-02 at 01:47 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hello, > > The latest commit in gnumach should be fixing the disasters that some > people have been seeing in their hurd system. This was due to an > improper handling of non-block-aligned reads in the gnumach linux block > glue, which ha

Re: grub-pc makes hurd crash

2012-05-22 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Samuel Thibault wrote: Riccardo Mottola, le Sat 19 May 2012 16:13:19 +0200, a écrit : while configuring/installing grub-pc from debian, the kernel panics in the way attached in the screenshot. I don't see anything obvious, from the source code the assertion should never trigger, so it might jus

Re: grub-pc makes hurd crash

2012-05-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Riccardo Mottola, le Sat 19 May 2012 16:13:19 +0200, a écrit : > while configuring/installing grub-pc from debian, the kernel panics in the > way attached in the screenshot. I don't see anything obvious, from the source code the assertion should never trigger, so it might just be some overflow som

Re: grub-pc makes hurd crash

2012-05-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Riccardo Mottola, le Sat 19 May 2012 16:13:19 +0200, a écrit : > while configuring/installing grub-pc from debian, the kernel panics in the > way attached in the screenshot. which version of the kernel are you running exactly? Samuel

Re: grub vs st_dev (aka fsid) / st_rdev

2009-11-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
olafbuddenha...@gmx.net, le Wed 11 Nov 2009 00:23:17 +0100, a écrit : > On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 10:47:08PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > - Either we align more on POSIX to manage to get the st_dev (aka fsid) > > of filesystems equal to the the st_rdev of their underlying /dev > > entries. A

Re: grub vs st_dev (aka fsid) / st_rdev

2009-11-10 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 10:47:08PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > - Either we align more on POSIX to manage to get the st_dev (aka fsid) > of filesystems equal to the the st_rdev of their underlying /dev > entries. An easy way is to have storeios expose their own pid as > st_rdev, and have

Re: grub vs st_dev (aka fsid) / st_rdev

2009-11-10 Thread Carl Fredrik Hammar
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 02:01:19PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > I assumed that was the case for the ones that are interesting for grub. > > Yes, but then to realize unicity it's more difficult, as you have > several sources of IDs. You can of course use a prefix to identify where > it comes f

Re: grub vs st_dev (aka fsid) / st_rdev

2009-11-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Carl Fredrik Hammar, le Tue 10 Nov 2009 13:30:30 +0100, a écrit : > > That's not a problem since in that case the FS above it will have to be > > restarted too. Note that a storeio can't time out while an FS is still > > running. > > The FS can use file_get_storage_info and use the store directly,

Re: grub vs st_dev (aka fsid) / st_rdev

2009-11-10 Thread Carl Fredrik Hammar
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:24:34AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Carl Fredrik Hammar, le Tue 10 Nov 2009 09:27:14 +0100, a écrit : > > > - An easy way is to have storeios expose their own pid as > > > st_rdev, and have filesystems use the underlying storeio st_rdev for > > > their st_dev (aka

Re: grub vs st_dev (aka fsid) / st_rdev

2009-11-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Carl Fredrik Hammar, le Tue 10 Nov 2009 09:27:14 +0100, a écrit : > > - An easy way is to have storeios expose their own pid as > > st_rdev, and have filesystems use the underlying storeio st_rdev for > > their st_dev (aka fsid). One issue is for the / ext2fs, since it > > doesn't use a stor

Re: grub vs st_dev (aka fsid) / st_rdev

2009-11-10 Thread Carl Fredrik Hammar
Hi, On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 10:47:08PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > I can see two solutions: > > - Either we align more on POSIX to manage to get the st_dev (aka > fsid) of filesystems equal to the the st_rdev of their underlying /dev > entries. An easy way is to have storeios expose thei

Re: grub segfaulting

2009-06-01 Thread Barry deFreese
Samuel Thibault wrote: Barry deFreese, le Sun 31 May 2009 10:03:32 -0400, a écrit : Even if I run the unmodified version I get segfaults with the following error on the console: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0 Any clue on what could be causing that? Doesn't gdb give you a

Re: grub segfaulting

2009-06-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Barry deFreese, le Sun 31 May 2009 10:03:32 -0400, a écrit : > Even if I run the unmodified version I get segfaults with the > following error on the console: > > end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0 > > Any clue on what could be causing that? Doesn't gdb give you a backtrace? Samuel

Re: GRUB on GNU/Hurd (was: GNU/Hurd Rescue CD)

2007-03-22 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 08:15:53PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > So, why doesn't it install a boot loader? I think this probably because it uses an obsolete code base which never did install Grub when installing GNU/Linux, either. Adding this feature would still be welcome, but probably not t

Re: GRUB on GNU/Hurd (was: GNU/Hurd Rescue CD)

2007-03-21 Thread leslie . polzer
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 07:57:06PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > You then need to explain that to your mailer for properly setting the > Mail-Followup-To: header. Indeed. > > > Correct, you can't install GRUB from within a GNU/Hurd system, > > But the rescue CD is running GNU/Linux...? > > Yes

Re: GRUB on GNU/Hurd (was: GNU/Hurd Rescue CD)

2007-03-21 Thread Samuel Thibault
[EMAIL PROTECTED], le Wed 21 Mar 2007 19:46:49 +0100, a écrit : > On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 03:37:16PM +0100, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > > > [Taking this to .] > > No need to CC me, I happen to be subscribed :) You then need to explain that to your mailer for properly setting the Mail-Followup-To: h

Re: GRUB on GNU/Hurd (was: GNU/Hurd Rescue CD)

2007-03-21 Thread leslie . polzer
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 03:37:16PM +0100, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > [Taking this to .] No need to CC me, I happen to be subscribed :) > Correct, you can't install GRUB from within a GNU/Hurd system, But the rescue CD is running GNU/Linux...? Leslie -- NEW homepage: https://viridian.dnsalias

Re: GRUB on GNU/Hurd (was: GNU/Hurd Rescue CD)

2007-03-21 Thread Samuel Thibault
Thomas Schwinge, le Wed 21 Mar 2007 15:37:16 +0100, a écrit : > It's probably no longer worthwhile to do that for GRUB legacy, Maybe as a debian patch at least. Samuel ___ Bug-hurd mailing list Bug-hurd@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bu

Re: grub

2005-02-07 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
configfile (nd)/boot/hurd-l4/menu.lst Problem with that is that you can't share that file with `boot', which is quite a nice thing IMHO. ___ Bug-hurd mailing list Bug-hurd@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd

Re: grub

2005-02-07 Thread Neal H. Walfield
> Have you tried that? I'm not sure it actually works, but I'm not sure it > doesn't. I think I tried it and it wasn't the right thing, but I don't > really recall at the moment. From my understanding of what your patch is supposed to do, yes and it works quite well for me. Specifically, I have

Re: grub

2005-02-07 Thread Roland McGrath
> > With this, we put the canonical script into /boot/servers.boot and instead > > of everyone's grub config file copying the magic command lines, they just > > use: > > > > kernel /boot/gnumach > > modulelist /boot/servers.boot > > Why can'y you use the configfile directive? Wouldn't that do th

Re: grub

2005-02-06 Thread Neal H. Walfield
> With this, we put the canonical script into /boot/servers.boot and instead > of everyone's grub config file copying the magic command lines, they just > use: > > kernel /boot/gnumach > modulelist /boot/servers.boot Why can'y you use the configfile directive? Wouldn't that do the same thing (wi

Re: grub

2005-02-06 Thread Marco Gerards
"Alfred M. Szmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Has anyone used grub2? Is it usable yet? > >It is not usable yet. > > When we spoke sometime ago you said the exact opposite. Has something > changed in the GRUB 2 code base? *sigh*, if someone would pick on nuances it would've been you,

Re: grub

2005-02-05 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
> Has anyone used grub2? Is it usable yet? It is not usable yet. When we spoke sometime ago you said the exact opposite. Has something changed in the GRUB 2 code base? We planned scripting support for GRUB 2. What I had in mind was just a GRUB 2 script for the Hurd. The script ac

Re: grub

2005-02-05 Thread Roland McGrath
> It is not usable yet. > > We planned scripting support for GRUB 2. What I had in mind was just > a GRUB 2 script for the Hurd. That sounds great. But since it is not a reality for users who are not themselves hacking on GRUB 2, I would still like to make things easier on people who want to ha

Re: grub

2005-02-05 Thread Marco Gerards
Roland McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Has anyone used grub2? Is it usable yet? It is not usable yet. We planned scripting support for GRUB 2. What I had in mind was just a GRUB 2 script for the Hurd. The script accepts the root device as argument and loads the right kernel and modules.

Re: grub

2005-02-05 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
2004-09-15 Roland McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> You just couldn't sit and suck on this lollipop any longer huh? ___ Bug-hurd mailing list Bug-hurd@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd

Re: GRUB patch for 'lilo -R' functionality

2003-11-11 Thread Keir Fraser
> > I only changed the behaviour of savedefault when executed within the > > GRUB-util shell (ie. not GRUB menu mode). I can't think of a scenario > > where the '--once' semantics would be useful to access from the GRUB > > menu, so I'm reluctant to 'fix' this behaviour. > > I think there's a miss

Re: GRUB patch for 'lilo -R' functionality

2003-11-11 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 06:44:21PM +, Keir Fraser wrote: > > I only changed the behaviour of savedefault when executed within the > GRUB-util shell (ie. not GRUB menu mode). I can't think of a scenario > where the '--once' semantics would be useful to access from the GRUB > menu, so I'm reluct

Re: GRUB patch for 'lilo -R' functionality

2003-11-11 Thread Keir Fraser
> I only changed the behaviour of savedefault when executed within the > GRUB-util shell (ie. not GRUB menu mode). I can't think of a scenario > where the '--once' semantics would be useful to access from the GRUB > menu, so I'm reluctant to 'fix' this behaviour. > > One other limitation you shou

Re: GRUB patch for 'lilo -R' functionality

2003-11-11 Thread Keir Fraser
> I gave a try to your patch for 'lilo -R' functionality in GRUB: > > http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grub/2002-02/msg00151.html > > it seems to basicaly work, but the --once flag is not honored when running > the real grub (I don't know if the problem is in savedefault or in the > boot r

RE: GRUB problem installing menu.lst when e2fs_stage1_5 is present

2001-02-19 Thread James Franklin
Hi folks, I have rerun the test below twice with the following solution and learned something interesting. It is possible to enter e2fs_stage1_5 and use menu.lst by using the following method. As it works now it is not possible to install GRUB in the hd0 with stage1, stage2, e2fs_stage1_5 and men