Hi, i've tried to boot grub off a 5.25" floppy on my old am386DX-40MHz (no
coprocessor), and what i get is the computer just reboots without displaying any
messages and keeps on doing that untill i removed the diskette.
I'm not exactly sure how to make a computer reboot so i couldn't determine
what part of the code is responsible for this behaviour.
I do not have linux installed on that computer yet so i had to compile grub on
a PII slackware box with gcc 2.7.2.3 and binutils 2.9.1 (with BFD 2.9.1.0.19).
Then i copied the stage1 and stage2 binaries to my 386 via smbclient and then
did:
> copy /b stage1 + stage2 grub.raw
> rawrite grub.raw a:
Both 0.9.51 and 0.9.52 exhibit the same behaviour.
This worked before but the diskette was a 3.5" one and the pc was a K6-233MHz.
I don't know if this is a bug related to my cpu, binutils or grub. The reason
that i want to use grub with this computer is that i want to try and install
hurd on it.
I'd appreciate any input or suggestions on this matter.
Igor
P.S.: please reply or cc: to my email address.
