Hello!
Has anyone had any success in getting GRUB to boot off 1.68 meg media?
If your BIOS can be configured to recognize the geometry, that would
be possible. Otherwise, impossible.
In fact, there are there way of finding the geometry:
1) Use values hardcoded in the bootsector (BPB)
2)
What is keeping GRUB from remaining in alpha?
Recently I was debating the advantages and
disadvantages of LILO, and GRUB was recomended as a
viable alternative. I am wondering what GRUB is still
trying to accomplish before going public.
I, as well as others, are interested in you response.
I
Hello, Jeff!
Can anyone explain to me why the system boots with 128MB of RAM with
lilo and only 64MB with grub? Everything seems to work fine when I
specify mem=128m, but that's still strange.
GRUB itself determines the memory size. If it boots Linux it always gives
the "mem=" parameter to
From: Christopher Kailden [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Information on GRUB
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 12:35:22 -0700 (PDT)
What is keeping GRUB from remaining in alpha?
Please take a look at my past mail in the archive:
http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-grub%40gnu.org/msg01285.html
Recently I
Pavel Roskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hello!
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.
some more info from Quel Qun:
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Using the current cooker grub-0.5.94-9mdk,
From: Pixel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: LBA bitmap
Date: 28 Apr 2000 06:29:36 +0200
grub displaymem
EISA Memory BIOS Interface is present
Address Map BIOS Interface is present
Lower memory: 638K, Upper memory (to first chipset hole): 65527K
Then a bunch of addresses...
Thanks for
