> > 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.
I'm booting with grub, but I'm using ext2 and reiserfs. I had quite some problems with smaller partitions (20MB) on a DoM with different filesystems. So far, ext2 was the only one I tried that worked. Though I might try FAT32, the Problem with FAT could indeed be the missing stage1_5 file. > There are people successfully booting LEAF with Grub and LiLO. > The DOS trunciation wouldn't happen if the /boot partition is compressed > in the initrd.lrp and/or root.lrp. I'm not aware of any of the > filesystem in > LEAF that isn't compressed in a *.lrp other than the kernel and syslinux. Grub doesn't see a compressed file system. It needs to read the /boot/grub/stage2, /boot/grub/menu.lst, /linux and /initrd.lrp files directly from a filesystem. It could, theoretically, read the stage1_5 files from somewhere else, as those are directly written to tracks on the HD/whatever. - Alex ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
