Michael37 wrote: > URL: > <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?27621> > > Summary: Unable to load simple boot manager (SBM) with Grub > 2 > Project: GNU GRUB > Submitted by: michael37 > Submitted on: Wed 07 Oct 2009 01:06:23 AM GMT > Category: Booting > Severity: Major > Priority: 5 - Normal > Item Group: Software Error > Status: None > Privacy: Public > Assigned to: None > Originator Name: Michael37 > Originator Email: > Open/Closed: Open > Discussion Lock: Any > Release: > Release: SVN > Reproducibility: Every Time > Planned Release: None > > _______________________________________________________ > > Details: > > SBM is a nice handy tool which allows booting from devices that BIOS doesn't > properly support, for example, from some USB CD-ROMs or from diagnostics dell > partition. > diagnostic and recovery partitions should be bootable by grub2 as well. Perhaps you need Robert's ntldr patch > In Jaunty and earlier releases with Grub 1, using SBM was trivial (inspired > by http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/GRUB/Chainloaded_CD-ROM, but no downloads > required). Simply install package syslinux, copy file > /usr/lib/syslinux/memdisk to /boot; then copy file /install/sbm.bin from any > Ubuntu install CD to /boot (reference: > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SmartBootManager). Finally, set up grub 1 > entry > > title SBM > root (hd0,1) > kernel /boot/memdisk > initrd /boot/sbm.bin > > The same strategy doesn't work for Karmic with grub 2 (version 1.97 beta 3). > I added the following entry to /boot/grub/grub.cfg using > /etc/grub.d/40_custom: > > menuentry "SBM" { > insmod ext2 > set root=(hd0,1) > search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 1017bb9e-ad12-494f-a580-6f94b015891d > linux /boot/memdisk > initrd /boot/sbm.bin > } > > When I try to choose this entry in grub2 menu, I get one line of text as if > kernel is trying to boot, then screen blanks and computer hangs. > > I tried using memdisk and sbm.bin from both Jaunty and Karmic under Karmic > and neither work. Looks like grub problem by elimination. > > > > memdisk incorrectly claims 32-bit linux boot protocol support. Not our bug. Use linux16. > _______________________________________________________ > > Reply to this item at: > > <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?27621> > > _______________________________________________ > Message sent via/by Savannah > http://savannah.gnu.org/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-grub mailing list > Bug-grub@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub > >
-- Regards Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko Personal git repository: http://repo.or.cz/w/grub2/phcoder.git _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list Bug-grub@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
