Re: Grub and disk images

[adrian15]

Eric S. Johansson escribió:
> in each case, the failure gets to the point where it's trying to boot 
> and it never gets any further than the blank screen after the BIOS 
> message goes away.
Aha.

> I do have a flash image built using a rather 
> laborious and time intensive technique that does work and I derived my 
> solutions from that original technique so I know the basic technique is 
> viable.
Any doc about this intensive technique ?

>  What that problem is, I'm not sure. If it's not grub, feel free
> to tell me so and I will look elsewhere for help.
I do not know.
> This is the sequence I use to install grub on the file image that will 
> be transferred to the flash.
>
> /sbin/grub --verbose --no-floppy --batch <<EOF >/dev/null 2>&1
> device (hd0) $DEST_FILE
> geometry (hd0) $cyl $heads $sectors
> root (hd0,0)
> makeactive
> install $grub_PARMS (hd0,0)/boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) 
> (hd0,0)/boot/grub/stage2 0x8000 p /boot/grub/g
> rub.conf
> quit
> EOF

Why don't you run a sync command after the script?

Why don't you postpone the makeactive command into another grub batch
sequence?

Why don't you use setup (hd0) instead of the manual install ?


> any ideas?

You might try my super grub disk instead of lastest grub to see if you
are more lucky, sgd has some patches more than 0.97 but... please ask me
... because among other things you should dev_grub/util/grub as the grub
executable after you have compiled it.

adrian15