From: Mark Lundeberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: GRUB 0.5.92 problem
Date: Sat, 7 Aug 1999 18:34:52 -0700 (PDT)
> am having trouble with getting grub to use passwords. I type in the
> correct password, but it gives me a "Failed!" message. I tried running the
> simulator under gdb, and the password variable is correctly set to
> "<my password> (hd0,1)/boot/grub/menup.lst"
Thanks for your report. Can you try this patch?
--- grub-0.5.92.orig/stage2/stage2.c Thu Jun 24 09:03:29 1999
+++ grub-0.5.92/stage2/stage2.c Sun Aug 8 12:37:09 1999
@@ -377,6 +377,10 @@
while (! isspace (*pptr))
pptr ++;
+
+ /* terminate PASSWORD. */
+ *pptr++ = 0;
+
if (! strcmp (password, entered))
{
char *new_file = config_file;
> Also, I am having trouble booting up other bootloaders off floppies from
> grub (with chainloader command). I tried to boot up a grub boot disk from
> the grub on my harddrive, and it gave me a Hard Disk Error when I typed in
> boot. I tried to boot up my redhat install disk, and that didn't word
> either. When I tried to boot up my master bootloader (lilo), from grub, it
> worked fine, and lilo is able to boot these 2 floppies with no problems.
Your information is too ambiguous to understand what happened. We
need to know what you did exactly.
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