I'm trying to use GRUB to boot off a FAT16 hard drive partition (100MB in size,
located in the first cylinders of the disk). I installed GRUB succesfully and
on bootup everything goes well until the system tries to load the initrd image
to ramdisk, at which point I get a kernel panic proceeded by some DOS data
jibberish. The odd thing is that the first time I tried it it worked, but later
on when I repartitioned my drive and started all over I get this problem, even
though I used the same partition scheme. One thing to note is that when I try
the install GRUB from floppy, it fails to find (the optional?) fat_stage1_5
even though it's located in /boot/grub/ on the FAT partition, because the file
name is cut-off after the eigth character (is there a way around this BTW?).
Has anybody used GRUB with a hard drive succesfully? Any help/info would be
greatly appreciated.
BTW, thanks to Simon Blake for his GRUB mini-howto.
Procedure used for GRUB (in case it's useful for solving the problem):
- Partition the HD. 100MB FAT16 partition is first partition on the drive.
- Format the partitions.
- Install an MBR using 'fdisk /MBR' from DOS boot disk (GRUB wouldn't work
otherwise)
- Install GRUB stage binary images in /boot/grub/ on FAT partition, & edit
menu.lst.
- Install GRUB using the GRUB boot floppy:
root (hd0,0)
setup (hd0)
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