Re: GRUB 0.5.92 problem

[Mark Lundeberg]

On Sun, 8 Aug 1999, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote:

 From: Mark Lundeberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Re: GRUB 0.5.92 problem
 Date: Sat, 7 Aug 1999 18:34:52 -0700 (PDT)
 
  am having trouble with getting grub to use passwords. I type in the
  correct password, but it gives me a "Failed!" message. I tried running the
  simulator under gdb, and the password variable is correctly set to
  "my password (hd0,1)/boot/grub/menup.lst"
 
   Thanks for your report. Can you try this patch?
 
 --- grub-0.5.92.orig/stage2/stage2.c  Thu Jun 24 09:03:29 1999
 +++ grub-0.5.92/stage2/stage2.c   Sun Aug  8 12:37:09 1999
 @@ -377,6 +377,10 @@
  
 while (! isspace (*pptr))
   pptr ++;
 +
 +   /* terminate PASSWORD.  */
 +   *pptr++ = 0;
 +   
 if (! strcmp (password, entered))
   {
 char *new_file = config_file;

That works for the first try at the password, but I'd hate to see what
happens if the user failed the password check and tried again. AFAIK,
isspace() doesn't return 1 for null chars, so change
while (! isspace (*pptr))
to
while (! isspace (*pptr)  *pptr)

  Also, I am having trouble booting up other bootloaders off floppies from
  grub (with chainloader command). I tried to boot up a grub boot disk from
  the grub on my harddrive, and it gave me a Hard Disk Error when I typed in
  boot. I tried to boot up my redhat install disk, and that didn't word
  either. When I tried to boot up my master bootloader (lilo), from grub, it
  worked fine, and lilo is able to boot these 2 floppies with no problems. 
 
   Your information is too ambiguous to understand what happened. We
 need to know what you did exactly.

Sorry, stupid me forgot to do root=(fd0)

Re: GRUB 0.5.92 problem

[Mark Lundeberg]

On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote:

   Perhaps RedHat has an old and buggy version of binutils. You can
 examine what version you use by "ld -v". See the requirement in the
 file README.

Ah. I thought my old version (2.9.1.0.4) was fine, as no compiler errors
occured. It works nicely now that I have the new 2.9.1.0.25 . However, I
am having trouble with getting grub to use passwords. I type in the
correct password, but it gives me a "Failed!" message. I tried running the
simulator under gdb, and the password variable is correctly set to
"my password (hd0,1)/boot/grub/menup.lst"

Also, I am having trouble booting up other bootloaders off floppies from
grub (with chainloader command). I tried to boot up a grub boot disk from
the grub on my harddrive, and it gave me a Hard Disk Error when I typed in
boot. I tried to boot up my redhat install disk, and that didn't word
either. When I tried to boot up my master bootloader (lilo), from grub, it
worked fine, and lilo is able to boot these 2 floppies with no problems. 

Re: GRUB 0.5.92 problem

[OKUJI Yoshinori]

  Hi Mark, please submit any bug report related to GNU GRUB to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of debian-hurd.

From: Mark Lundeberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: GRUB 0.5.92 problem
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 14:31:07 -0700 (PDT)

 I compiled grub on a Redhat Linux 5.1 system. hd0 is 210MB. I use lilo as
 my master bootloader.

  Perhaps RedHat has an old and buggy version of binutils. You can
examine what version you use by "ld -v". See the requirement in the
file README.

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