Howto : GfxBoot ( Grub like suse )

[bohboh]

Ok, i have searched and i am going to have to ask.

How do you take a screenshot using qemu? My ideas was to create a vmware image, or is that silly?

[kno]

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That's all, everithing is fine!
But, there isn't any animation on this screen!!! Although in the SuSE system there is an animation around the Earth picture.

What to do with this?

Timeout must be greater than 0 in /boot/grub/menu.lst.

[kno]

Ok, i have searched and i am going to have to ask.

How do you take a screenshot using qemu? My ideas was to create a vmware image, or is that silly?

I launch qemu with a grub boot floppy and then I use gnome-sreenshot (Alt+Print Screen).

[rejser]

have been using gfxboot a couple of days now and one things bug me, no mather wich theme I choose i get a popup saying "You have a cool system, but you are about to install a 32-bit applikation on a 64-bit system"
I have amd 64, though ubuntu 32 installed.. anyone know how to make it go away?

[bohboh]

I have managed to create my grub boot floppy using this guide (included menu.lst and device.map with my message file):

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GrubHowto/BootFloppy

And then do qemu /dev/fd0

It eventually drops me into the grub console.

How do i get it to display the boot menu?

[kno]

I have managed to create my grub boot floppy using this guide (included menu.lst and device.map with my message file):

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GrubHowto/BootFloppy

And then do qemu /dev/fd0

It eventually drops me into the grub console.

How do i get it to display the boot menu?

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cp menu.lst message.suse /media/floppy/boot/grub
umount /media/floppy
qemu -fda /dev/fd0 -boot a

[kno]

have been using gfxboot a couple of days now and one things bug me, no mather wich theme I choose i get a popup saying "You have a cool system, but you are about to install a 32-bit applikation on a 64-bit system"
I have amd 64, though ubuntu 32 installed.. anyone know how to make it go away?

Can you try this :
message.bz2

[rejser]

Can you try this :
message.bz2

worked like a charm, mind sharing the source?
did you exclude dia_bits from boot.config? or dia_install?

[kno]

worked like a charm, mind sharing the source?
did you exclude dia_bits from boot.config? or dia_install?

I comment some lines of common.inc, that's all.
patch.diff.bz2

[tlaloczint]

ok I got this what I am doing wrong
any help please?


root@aztlan:/home/tlaloc# sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hdc: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdc1 * 1 14592 117210208+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/hdd: 251.0 GB, 251000193024 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30515 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdd1 6203 29053 183550657+ 5 Extended
/dev/hdd2 * 1 6202 49817533+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdd5 6469 29053 181405949 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdd6 6203 6468 2136582 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Partition table entries are not in disk order
root@aztlan:/home/tlaloc# grub-install /dev/hdc1
Due to a bug in xfs_freeze, the following command might produce a segmentation
fault when /boot/grub is not in an XFS filesystem. This error is harmless and
can be ignored.
xfs_freeze: specified file ["/boot/grub"] is not on an XFS filesystem
Installation finished. No error reported.
This is the contents of the device map /boot/grub/device.map.
Check if this is correct or not. If any of the lines is incorrect,
fix it and re-run the script `grub-install'.

(hd0) /dev/hdc
(hd1) /dev/hdd
root@aztlan:/home/tlaloc#