geometry output / floppy chainloading from El Torrito

[Treutwein Bernhard]

Dear Grubies,

Two questions:

1. What is the output of the geometry command ?

It consistently reports an old 340 MB disk with geometry 
cyl 1010 heads 12, sec/track 55, total # of sectors 666600
as 1009 12 55 665940 and omits one whole cylinder.

Old Phoenix BIOS correctly autodetects the disk as 1010 12 55
Knoppix (based on Debian woody) correctly identifies
it as 1010 12 55.


2. Having booted from an El Torrito CD in floppy emulation
fails when I try to

chainloader (fd1)+1
boot

yields GRUB
and nothing more

chainloader (fd0)+1
boot

boots again (correctly ?) the boot record from the El Torrito
floppy image.

Since I had successfully swapped hard disks (scsi 0x81/ide 0x80) with

map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)

here I had to chainload the physical 0x81 disk with

chainloader (hd1)+1
boot

to get the system booting from the scsi disk, I would have
expected that chainloader (fd0)+1 might have found the
physical floppy, but how to get back to the El Torrito.

regards and best wishes for the new year
--
        Bernhard Treutwein, IuK, Ref. III A 3
        address@hidden