Has anyone had any success in getting GRUB to boot off 1.68 meg media?
All I can get is the stage1 message on screen, and then it hangs.
I took the following steps to build the floppy:
mknod /dev/fd0u1680 b 2 44
fdformat /dev/fd0u1680
mformat -t 80 -h 2 -s 21 a:
mbadblocks a:
stage1 and stage2
I don't have suitable FDD to format 1.68MB floppy,
so I can't try... sorry.
Before all, other OS (e.g. bare bzImage, LILO boot image,
or MS-DOS...) can boot from 1.68MB format floppy?
If so, could you try GRUB boot floppy without file system?
making as:
cat stage1 stage2 /dev/fd0u1680
FYI Linux-Mandrake is using grub for version 7.1 of the OS, and
attached is a report from our beta release of 7.1...
--
Jeff Garzik | Nothing cures insomnia like the
Building 1024| realization that it's time to get up.
MandrakeSoft, Inc. |-- random
IIRC, Mandrake uses GRUB with local patches applied. Thus, you
should debug your version of GRUB for yourself. I won't help you until
you remove the LPB.
Okuji
From my research, the 1.68meg format is possible on the vast majority of
current BIOSes and floppy drives, just not often used (or known about). In
any case, the disk is accessible under both DOS and Linux once it's been
formatted, and according to the pages on the Linux Router Project, LILO is
Dear Sir or Madam
I'm trying to modify the bootloader that ships with WRS vxWorks
(since it doesn't work well for our stripped-nodebug symbols image!!).
Does your grub work with ELF formatted files? If not, do you know
of any source-code available tools that would?
Thank you in advance.
The geometry is properly seen by GRUB
when I'm in the GRUB shell,
but the boot goes nowhere after the stage1 message.
I suppose, GRUB shell accesses the devices via OS kernel
(if you run GRUB shell on Linux, via Linux device driver),
so it's not recommended to guess BIOS preference/limitations
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: RE: 1.68M boot floppy?
Date: 27 Apr 2000 13:11:05 +0900
I suppose, GRUB shell accesses the devices via OS kernel
(if you run GRUB shell on Linux, via Linux device driver),
so it's not recommended to guess BIOS preference/limitations
by using GRUB shell.
