> > > > 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? > It was a Joke Son, It was A Joke (Foghorn Leghorn) We went from Stage 1 to Stage 1.5 to Stage 2 sequencing to
Stage 1 to Stage 2 to Stage ???? sequencing,, and you probably confusing a few of the younger crowd. You and I are in agreement, the issue is with stage 1 - the MBR boot program. It loads and dies before launching Stage 1.5. I dont have the RH 7.2 version of the grub source to look at. Might have 7.1 levels. The MBR is probably the same. If you have source - What does it do after printing out "GRUB", everything or just a few last things before jumping to the newly loaded image? -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
