Re: geometry output / floppy chainloading from El Torrito

[Thierry Laronde]

After some tests:

On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 09:40:30AM +0100, Treutwein Bernhard wrote:
> > 
> > (fd0) is indeed the floppy image on the El Torito CD.
> > 
> > The problem I think with (fd1) ("real (fd0)") is that you 
> > have an "old" version of GRUB specifying the booting device 
> > as (fd0). Then the stage1 on (fd1) calls a stage2 on (fd0) 
> > that is on the floppy El Torito image. Hence this fails. If 
> > you upgrade your stage1 on the floppy (not specifying explicitely
> > the booting device) this should work.
> > 
> 
> hmm, that may be, on the CDROM is a 0.5.96.1 and on the floppy
> is a fresh 0.93 from the cvs last week.
> 
> But - please correct me if I it should be different - if I boot 
> from floppy I see only the (fd0) logical and physical floppy. 

The problem doesn't seem to rely on the El Torito extension but with
a screwded way of handling chainloader (device)+offset.

Would you mind trying this kind of syntax ?

root (fd1)
chainloader +1
boot

This always succeeds with me. IIRC, such a strange behavior (hiatus
between chainloader (device)+1 and root (device); chainloader +1 appeared
with 0.92.

There is something to be fixed.

Cheers,
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