Hello OKUJI Yoshinori!
On Sat, 7 August 1999 at 12:21:16, you wrote:
Dirk, send any mail about GNU GRUB to [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of
debian-hurd. I will not tell anyone this any more, and I will not
reply any mail if you do ignore my advise.
Well - Grub still is rather Hurdish so I just carelessly postet this
to the list in order to let others know about possible problems.
I did not intend to make this a bug report, but you will get what
you ask for...
(Please note that I used grub from the hurd 0.0 release up to date
- it replaced LILO and I never, ever did regret it, even though
my mother also happens to be called Lilo (the short form of her
real name Lieselotte). You see - I am a very happy Grub user.)
I'm not sure, but SCSI drives normally support LBA mode. So I
suspect that you just did something wrong. Please tell us what you did
in details.
My Hardware:
- ASUS P2-DS configured for 1.4 MPS spec, 2 CPU's found by GRUB
with 'impsprobe' (the board is based on Intel P2X4E and Intel
440BX Chipsets)
- 393208KB /proc/kcore, all detected by GRUB
- on board Adaptec AIC-7890 U2W LVD SCSI Controller, configured
to provide translation for drives 1GB (I probably do not need
this because I don't do proprietory stuff anymore.)
Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: IBM Model: DDRS-39130D Rev: DC1B
Type: Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02
- this is an LVD device
- cfdisk 0.8 reports C/H/S = /255/63 under GNU/Linux 2.2.0
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00
Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-ROM PX-40TS Rev: 1.00
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
- on board IDE ports (U-DMA/33 capable):
Attached devices:
- 2x IBM-DHEA-38451, both configured as masters on port 0 and 1
respectively, C/H/S = 16383/16/63, 472k cache
- On my system(s) (hd0,0) traditionally is a small partition dedicated
to GRUB and some kernels to choose from; recently I started to
mount this under "/boot", making it a rather clean and reliable
solution for my purposes.
After I compiled from the 'alpha' sources I installed stage1_lba
in the following ways:
(hd0) configured as SCSI disk, (hd0,0) with ext2-fs:
install= (hd0,0)/grub/stage1_lba d (hd0) (hd0,0)/grub/stage2
0x8000 p (hd0,0)/grub/menu.lst
- does result in "Error: LBA", requires Ctrl-Alt-Del
(fd0), ext2-fs:
install= (fd0)/grub/stage1_lba d (fd0) (fd0)/grub/stage2
0x8000 p (fd0)/grub/menu.lst
- does result in "Error: LBA", requires Ctrl-Alt-Del
(hd0) configured as IDE disk, (hd0,0) with ext2-fs:
install= (hd0,0)/grub/stage1_lba d (hd0) (hd0,0)/grub/stage2
0x8000 p (hd0,0)/grub/menu.lst
- works, i.e. stage2 is loaded (this shuts a lot of guesswork
out I suppose, so I gave it a try today)
The stage1 worked for both situations where stage1_lba failed.
No. In fact, I have been using the emulator to install GRUB into a
floppy disk when developing GRUB.
You are right - it does work. Stupid me - it has been late
and I guess I probably tried to acess a floppy disk that was
lying somewhere on my cluttered desk - inserting it into the
drive definitely helped to overcome the nasty problem. ;-)
Did I hear someone laugh?
Yet another issue - is scrolling of lists with more than 12
menu entries supposed to work? I tried this with 0.5.91 and
it did not scroll, but as far as I can remember one still
could select items that exceeded the field if one remembered
the keystrokes. The intention was to have a floppy with all
sorts of weired combinations of install commands handy.
Of course - one can type them in or one could edit an entry
matching closely the situation, however, this is rather
inconvenient if one has a german keyboard layout.
Well - now for the fun part:
You should modify the examples for various graphic adventure games
that are quite frequently found on many PC-based playstations:
- Loading OS/2 (v3.0, also known as Warp) from an HPFS formatted
partition worked nicely, just use "root=(hd?,?)" and then
"chainloader= +1" (No - I am unable to ever test this again
since I nuked all proprietory stuff. Perhaps one needs to use
"rootnoverify" instead, but even "root" should do.)
The OS/2 example definitely needs to be changed since I have
never seen a chainloader that would be in any way specific
to this system. Developing one would be a waste of time since
the blocklist notation works, provided it worked earlier together
with the braindead bootmanager that comes with OS/2 of course,
but I nuked that bootmanager thingy after I once discovered that
Grub can do the job as well. Prior to that date I chainloaded
Grub from the OS/2 bootloader. BTW - it also works the other way,
i.e. one can chainload OS/2's bootloader from Grub as well of
course. Finally - if anyone really wants to get it working under
adverse
