Re: Floppy geometry detection (was: 2.88 Mb)

1999-09-23 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hello, Erich! > > This time BIOS apparently believes that all diskettes in 2.88M drives > > should also be 2.88M > > Stage1 tries to read sectors above 18 and gets an error. > > The point is that, with the iterative probe, both the stage1 and stage2 > should not believe the BIOS anyway. Neither

Re: Patch: grub --fake-fd0=FILE

1999-09-23 Thread Johannes Kroeger
OKUJI Yoshinori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm sorry, your problem was due to a bug in configure. I have fixed > the bug. Here is another one: --- configure.cvs Thu Sep 23 13:57:29 1999 +++ configure Thu Sep 23 15:07:43 1999 @@ -1720,7 +1720,7 @@ int main (void) { - asm ("incl e

Re: Installation documentation

1999-09-23 Thread Jeff Sheinberg
OKUJI Yoshinori writes: > From: Jeff Sheinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Installation documentation > Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 17:42:39 -0400 (EDT) > > > IMNSHO, the block list for stage2 belongs in the first block of > > stage2 itself. This way, stage1 only needs a pointer to the f

Re: Cannot write stage2

1999-09-23 Thread OKUJI Yoshinori
From: OKUJI Yoshinori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Cannot write stage2 Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 18:15:27 +0900 > I was wondering if debug_fs_func (currently, disk_read_func) was > really necessary. If it is not needed, it is better to remove the > variable than to rename it to something. What

Re: Cannot write stage2

1999-09-23 Thread OKUJI Yoshinori
From: Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Cannot write stage2 Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 12:15:19 +0400 (EEST) > What is needed is a function (disk_read_hook) and a variable (I've named > it disk_read_file) indicating that the sectors being read belong to the > file in question, not to othe

Re: Cannot write stage2

1999-09-23 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hello, OKUJI! > > Well, I've rewritten it. > > Thank you very much! You are a very nice guy. :) You have renamed debug_fs_func to disk_read_func I think it's not necessary to have two function for the same purpose. What is needed is a function (disk_read_hook) and a variable (I've named it d