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Re: boot floppy fails on different machine
From: |
Alex Thiel |
Subject: |
Re: boot floppy fails on different machine |
Date: |
Mon, 20 May 2002 13:40:01 +0200 |
Peter,
sounds like your old BIOS has problems with the way the floppy is probed in
stage1. Thierry Laronde has done a complete rewrite of the stage1 code. The
patch can be found at http://alpha.polynum.org/misc/grub-0.92.a_cd+ef.diff.gz
I haven't tried the patch myself, but it seems to handle problematic
situations much better than the old code.
Hope that helps,
Alex
On Monday 20 May 2002 11:11, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> 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?
>
> Thanks,
> Okuji
>
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- Re: boot floppy fails on different machine, (continued)
- 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, 2002/05/20
- 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 <=
RE: boot floppy fails on different machine, Treutwein Bernhard, 2002/05/27