Okujisan, just a very tiny and almost irrelevant feedback:
The stage2 of the binary distribution fetched from ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-0.97-i386-pc.tar.gz identifies itself as "GNU GRUB version 0.96" and not 0.97 :-( Similarily all older versions identified themself with one step lower than they were labeled in the tar. I patched offset 0x215 of the stage2 from 6 -> 7 Some older binary versions had a similar quirk (0.95 identified itself as 0.94). ======================================================= Some success info from tests I did: These tests were done with a HP Vectra, which required (as far as I remember) the "d" parameter for the install command. "setup (hd0)" now sets up a correct MBR. * OK: Chainload El Torito ------------------------- I tested the trick to chainload an ISO (El Torito) CD image (after having already booted GRUB from floppy or hard disk) via memdisk and smart-boot manager, it works (see: http://www.lrz.de/~bernhard/grub-chain-cd.html ). It worked also in 0.96 :-) * OK: Savedefault / default saved --------------------------------- appears to work correctly (both, when Grub saves the default and when I modify the file "default" by hand). regards & thanks -- Bernhard Treutwein Bernhard Treutwein(at)verwaltung uni-muenchen de > -----Original Message----- > From: Yoshinori K. Okuji [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2005 5:24 AM > To: bug-grub@gnu.org > Subject: GRUB 0.97 is released > > > I'm happy to announce the release of GRUB 0.97. This is the > eighth of our prereleases leading up to GRUB 1.0. We > encourage you to try it, as we have done a lot of bugfixes > and feature enhancement since the previous release. > > The source and binary distributions are available from > <ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/>. > > Send any questions, ideas, bug reports to <bug-grub@gnu.org> or > <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=grub>. > > Here is the relevant NEWS: > > New in 0.97 - 2005-05-08: > * Fix the prototypes and the definitions of nested functions. This was > required for gcc-4. > * Implement a more robust workaround for buggy BIOSes which don't pass > boot drive correctly (notably for HP Vectra). > > Thanks, > Okuji > > > > _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list Bug-grub@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub