-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 15:40:53 -0400, Kenneth Goodwin wrote:
> > In stage1 source code, the next stage is called stage2. ;) > > > Now Mike, This is not Fair! You cant keep changing the > nomenclature > like this, It just confuses my poor little brain....... > I thut I thaw a put-tee tat...... GRUB in MBR does not care at all whether the _next_ stage is the final stage as found in file /boot/grub/stage2 or whether it is an intermediate stage that loads another stage. So, in the stage1 source code they call the next stage "stage2", which is the stage1.5 we've been referring to all the time. It's that intermediate stage1.5 which provides ext2 fs access and hence can load any ordinary file on GRUB's root partition. The important thing to point out repeatedly is that if stage1 (in MBR) doesn't recognize any error upon determining drive geometry and upon loading the next stage, it doesn't print anything else than "GRUB ". And what can happen in stage1? In stage1 the BIOS is used to access the disk. CHS/LBA confusion, time-out waiting for hda to respond, what else? - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/Lru50iMVcrivHFQRAtjbAJwPU4SCTMXtbZRSfgvnvBNEThbC5gCfbm+h v1qrbCK5S1MMno1+zvUxgmk= =xr0f -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
