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512MB limit Was: Re: boot floppy fails on different machine
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Hans-Christian Armingeon |
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512MB limit Was: Re: boot floppy fails on different machine |
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Mon, 20 May 2002 12:16:33 +0200 |
Am Montag, 20. Mai 2002 11:11 schrieb Yoshinori K. Okuji:
> At 19 May 2002 12:50:11 +0100,
>
> Peter Baxendale wrote:
> > Then I tried the binaries at ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/ :
> > tar xvfz grub-0.92-i386-pc.tar.gz
> > cd grub-0.92-i386-pc/boot/grub
> > dd if=stage1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1
> > dd if=stage2 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 seek=1
> > This has exactly the same end result - hang with the 486.
>
> One possible cause may be the BIOS setting. For example, you must make
> sure that the geometry of the floppy is identical to the media you
> used for GRUB.
>
> However, I wouldn't be surprised even if GRUB doesn't work with 486,
> as I haven't tested it with 486 at all (simply because I have no
> 486). Does anyone use GRUB with 486 with no problem?
I am using grub on my 486 Laptop, and it works great. The only problem is the
BIOS. I can't access partitions over the 512 MB limit.
Will there be a possibility to go around this limitation?
>
> Thanks,
> Okuji
tia,
Johnny
- boot floppy fails on different machine, Peter Baxendale, 2002/05/18
- Re: boot floppy fails on different machine, Derrik Pates, 2002/05/18
- Re: boot floppy fails on different machine, Hans-Christian Armingeon, 2002/05/19
- Re: boot floppy fails on different machine, Peter Baxendale, 2002/05/19
- Re: boot floppy fails on different machine, Hans-Christian Armingeon, 2002/05/19
- Re: boot floppy fails on different machine, Yoshinori K. Okuji, 2002/05/20
- Re: boot floppy fails on different machine, Florian Hatat, 2002/05/20
- 512MB limit Was: Re: boot floppy fails on different machine,
Hans-Christian Armingeon <=
- Re: 512MB limit Was: Re: boot floppy fails on different machine, Yoshinori K. Okuji, 2002/05/20
- Re: 512MB limit, Yuri Zaporogets, 2002/05/20
- Re: 512MB limit, Yoshinori K. Okuji, 2002/05/22
- Re: boot floppy fails on different machine, Alex Thiel, 2002/05/20