I'm having some problems with grub (and others) on my old i586. It's a Fujitsu ErgoPro with a Pentium MMX 200Mhz.
Grub installs happilly on the disk, an NEC DSE2100A, CHS=4092/16/63, but grub hangs when booted from it after printing 'GRUB '. The problem is that bios thinks this drive is CHS=1023,64,63 - and the bios cannot be told otherwise (trust me I've tried), and cannot be updated easily. Fortunately, the kernel (2.6.11.12 atm) correctly identifies the disk, so booting from a grub-floppy works OK, and the machine works fine as a firewall/mail-server/web-server. All the partition utilities wrongly identify the disk as 1023,64,63 however - which is somewhat concerning. I have done some research to find out if I can convince grub to ignore the bios and trust me. But have had no luck. Has anyone any ideas? R. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
