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Re: [Vectorlinux-devel] VL6.0-SOHO-A1.45.iso
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From: John B <joh...@gm...> - 2009-10-12 21:36:49
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Moe and all, Google may well be our friend on resolving Newt's problem in getting his OS X entry to show in the LILO menu. The REFIt project on sf.net may or may not be helpful to Newt: http://refit.sourceforge.net/ - rEFIt is a boot menu and maintenance toolkit for EFI <http://www.intel.com/technology/efi/>-based machines like the Intel Macs <http://www.apple.com/hardware/>. You can use it to boot multiple operating systems easily, including triple-boot setups with Boot Camp. It also provides an easy way to enter and explore the EFI pre-boot environment. Cheers, John On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:58 PM, M0E Lnx <m0...@gm...> wrote: > I Presume this OSX thing is going to be a problem because of the fact > the os-prober does not pick it up, and I'm afraid there is not much I > can do in that area, as I dont own any mac software or hardware. > > My windows XP entry does work here though. Can you send me or post a > copy of your lilo.conf to see what it came out with? > > I can't reproduce the ISO failure. > I dont know which installer revision you tried, but I fixed an issue > in this area this morning. r911 is up there and works for me. I'm > unable to reproduce the issue using your instructions with this > version. Hope this issue is gone ;) > > As for the partition listing, that is straight from parted. Whatever > parted reports will be shown in the installer. The parted listings > depend on the kernel modules, so I presume something with the fuse or > ntfsprogs in the initrd are causing this behaviour. Might need to try > to resize or create a ntfs partition with the current initrd (maybe > gparted from the installer) to make sure everything is fine there. > > > On 10/12/09, Newt <gen...@gm...> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Things are definitely getting better - not that they were bad before - > but > > they're > > even better now!! Here's my list of little notes: > > > > During Install: > > -Lilo installs correctly to bootsector with VL and WinXP (good job!!) > (but > > problems, see below) > > -OSX bootable partition is not detected > > -osprober and fdisk-l identify the partition as 'unknown' > > -parted-l identify the partition as 'hsf+' > > -I manually added an 'other' option to lilo.conf and it works > correctly > > -ISO 'Search Again' problem persists > > -try: next, next, back, search again, search again > > -Cannot find ISO after that > > -Partition selection shows ntfs drives as 'fuseblk' (maybe by design?) > > > > After Install: > > -Lilo cannot boot the WindowsXP boot entry > > -just sits at lilo message saying 'booting WindowsXP' with a cursor > > below > > -KDM starts/runs correctly with proprietary nvidia driver (good job!!) > > -the backdrop for KDM leaves black sides on widescreen 1400x900 > > -Analog clock issue will persist for small resolution screens (1024x768 > and > > below) > > -the clock will be out of viewable range at these lower resolution > > screens > > -KDE taskbar/panel could be configured as 'centered' and would look > better > > at > > resolutions higher than 1280. As it stands, the panel is left-aligned > and > > anything > > higher than 1280 wide leaves a gap on the right-hand side of the panel. > I > > think a > > "centered" config is more aesthetically pleasing (opinion of course). > > -vburn-iso does not start and has no icon > > -opera, wpa_gui, and browser have no icons > > -I noticed that opera.desktop points to wrong location for icon > > (hicolor) > > -Icons added to desktop from KDE menu show up different than existing > icons. > > -maybe they are configured in 'desktop view' because they appear > > over-top of > > existing icons and have the fly-out options. Plus, they can't be > > drag/drop into > > trash with this configuration. > > > > Most of these points are pretty minor and don't actually affect > > functionality. The > > only major item on my list is the fact that WinXP would not start from > the > > lilo > > menu option. During installation, I quickly glanced at the lilo entry and > it > > seemed correct but I wasn't paying a lot of attention to the winxp lilo > > entry > > (I'll have to have another look to confirm). > > > > It very well could be my boot setup. I'm trying to leave the sda mbr > alone > > (sda is > > my first bootable device), as well as create the ability to boot directly > > from > > ISO, so I'm using various techniques to accomplish this. However, my > feeling > > is > > that once LILO actually boots, my system should effectively be ignorant > to > > the > > complex nature of my boot scenario (perhaps not??). > > > > sda_mbr: windows bootloader (boot.ini) with following options: > > -windowsxp (works) > > -osx (chainloads to sdc) (works) > > -grub4dos (boots grldr at sda1 root partition) (works) > > > > grub4dos with following options: > > -vector iso (located at sda1 root partition) (works) > > -lilo on hda1 (works) > > > > VectorLilo (hda1) options: > > -windowsxp (does not work) > > -vector-cli (untested, but likely works) > > -vector (works) > > -osx (works) > > > > Cheers, newt > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA > > is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your > > developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay > > ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference > > _______________________________________________ > > Vectorlinux-devel mailing list > > Vec...@li... > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vectorlinux-devel > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA > is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your > developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay > ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference > _______________________________________________ > Vectorlinux-devel mailing list > Vec...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vectorlinux-devel > |
