GRUB 0.90 disables Windoze NT 4.0 power down

2002-03-03 Thread Dan Fulger
Windoze NT 4.0 became unable to power down the computer when I upgraded from GRUB 0.5(Mandrake 8.0)to 0.90 (Mandrake 8.1).My BIOS is an Award 6.0. I have disabled apm.c in GRUB to make it work. I guess the cause is that GRUB doesn't release its APM connection on exit. Linux power down

On-board eepro100

2002-03-03 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hi all, Today I decided enough is enough, and after many hours of testing, managed to boot both etherboot 5.0.5 and grub 0.91 on my on-board eepro100. The only fix I made, in the end, was to add a 'udelay(4000)' just before 'whereami (set stats addr.);' in eepro100.c (line 533). sleep(1) also

rootnoverify+chainloader gives Error 25

2002-03-03 Thread Dominic Prior
Hi If I type this at the live grub prompt root (hd0,0) chainloader +1 boot my Windows 98 boots fine but if I type rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 boot I get this error: Error 25: Disk read error. I think this may be a bug because the Grub documentation recommends the

boot floppy documentation question

2002-03-03 Thread Ahmon Dancy
The docs say: # cd /usr/share/grub/i386-pc # dd if=stage1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1 1+0 records in 1+0 records out # dd if=stage2 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 seek=1 153+1 records in 153+1 records out # Considering the fact that 'stage1' is 512 bytes anyway, wouldn't it be simpler to specify: cat

Re: GRUB 0.90 disables Windoze NT 4.0 power down

2002-03-03 Thread Derrik Pates
On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 07:44:03PM +0200, Dan Fulger wrote: Windoze NT 4.0 became unable to power down the computer when I upgraded from GRUB 0.5(Mandrake 8.0) to 0.90 (Mandrake 8.1). My BIOS is an Award 6.0. I have disabled apm.c in GRUB to make it work. I guess the cause is that GRUB