Re: FreeBSD rootfs-mounting problems

2000-01-09 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hello, Tobias! > The menu.lst entry for booting FreeBSD is: > title FreeBSD > root (hd1,a) Try root (hd1,a) 0xFF Pavel Roskin

bug, CVS tree, e2fs_stage1_5

2000-01-09 Thread Forever shall I be.
I'm assuming the bug is in e2fs_stage1_5, though I don't know for sure.. Anyway, when booting with the latest CVS tree of GRUB (in an attempt to get access to the map command), I get "stage1 stage1.5", then "GRUB loading, please wait...", then "Error: 18".. It seems the e2fs_stage1_5 doesn't real

Re: Suggestion...

2000-01-09 Thread OKUJI Yoshinori
From: "Forever shall I be." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Suggestion... Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2000 11:35:15 -0600 (CST) > Then how does the BIOS do it? I don't think the BIOS is moving drives > around, and if at all possible, I'd like to avoid moving drives around.. ??? All you need to do is mo

Re: Suggestion...

2000-01-09 Thread Forever shall I be.
OKUJI Yoshinori wrote: > From: "Forever shall I be." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Suggestion... > Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2000 04:44:04 -0600 (CST) > > That's because Windows's boot loader does not allow you to boot it > from any non-first hard disk drive, like DOS. So this phenomenon is > not due

Re: Suggestion...

2000-01-09 Thread OKUJI Yoshinori
From: Alex Kellett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Suggestion... Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2000 11:02:08 + (GMT) > If this is possible then would it also be possible to boot the cdrom > mbr?, There is no MBR in a CD-ROM. -- OKUJI

Re: Suggestion...

2000-01-09 Thread OKUJI Yoshinori
From: "Forever shall I be." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Suggestion... Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2000 04:44:04 -0600 (CST) > suggesting giving GRUB the ability to load another MBR).. When > I try to tell GRUB to just do a chainloader on (hd2,0)+1, it > simply locks (I'm assuming the win95 MBR passes some

Re: Suggestion...

2000-01-09 Thread Alex Kellett
On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Forever shall I be. wrote: > Again, (hd2,0) does have a functional boot sector, and the BIOS > will load windows fine if I set the 3rd disk as the first place > to search for a boot record.. Anyway, I feel that if I could run > the MBR from (hd2), from GRUB, all would be fine.

Suggestion...

2000-01-09 Thread Forever shall I be.
First off, let me say I think GNU GRUB is wonderful.. It boots Linux wonderfully over here, and I imagine it will boot other OS's well too once I install them (except for DOS apparently, which is the purpose of this message).. Ok, I have an AMI BIOS from the P2SBA board from SuperMicro.. It lets