-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 16:16:46 -0400, Kenneth Goodwin wrote:
> 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? RHL 7.3: grub-0.91-4 RHL 9: grub-0.93-6 And surprise, the stage1 code is exactly the same. It prints "GRUB ", then does a few BIOS software interrupt calls to look whether LBA is supported, else falls back to CHS scheme. It also contains a bit of floppy probing code. If it doesn't print anything else than GRUB, it assumes it has loaded the next stage and executes it. A bit more sane code (if space permits) would print a few dots right before executing the next stage or would even verify whether the loaded next stage starts with a proper signature. Open questions: - is BIOS set to LBA? - does grub-install with --force-lba work? - does LILO work? - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/Lsco0iMVcrivHFQRAm9BAJ9CtMyWU/qpnoLoKhT7tIm010aXkgCcDVFi ko2oaeln8AVlwEnTQarX1kk= =V+e7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
