Good day,
Many thanks for the hard work that many have put into grub. I do
like the flexibility that grub gives you when booting.
Firstly, I am sorry if I haven't included enough information here. I
checked the manual but it is unclear to me where the problem may be
so I'm not sure what additional information is required.
This is with Debian's grub 0.5.95 package.
I have been problems with booting with grub, and lilo for that
matter, with a LS-120 drive. Using the "Installing GRUB on a floppy"
instructions, but substituting /dev/hda for /dev/fd0, I had the
following occur :-
- when booting with a 120MB diskette, the following is displayed
then the screen clears and the machine starts to reboot.
- when booting with a "standard" floppy diskette I get the grub
command line interface as expected.
Running GRUB from Linux and using the geometry command gives the
following information with the 120MB diskette :-
drive 0x80: C/H/S = 963/8/32, The number of sectors = 246528, /dev/hda
and for a standard diskette :-
drive 0x80: C/H/S = 80/2/18, The number of sectors = 2880, /dev/hda
The fact that I've had problems getting lilo to boot even after
finding much useful information on the web leads me to wonder
whether it maybe the BIOS, or possibly drive, that is causing the
problems. Note that the drive with a 120MB diskette works fine under
Linux using fdisk/mke2fs.
To confuse matters still further a DOS formatted 120 MB boot
diskette booted without any problems and appeared as a large floppy
diskette under DOS so I am rather confused.
I have also tried setting up an ext2 120MB diskette fully installed
with Linux and with /boot/grub setup and the following menu.lst :-
# For booting Linux
title Linux (Primary)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.15 root=/dev/hda1
The diskette is mounted as /mnt and then grub installed with
grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/hda.
This gets to stage1 on boot then on the P3B-F machine (see below for
machine info.) the machine immediately reboots, on the CUBX stage1
is displayed over and over again without stopping.
The following is more specific machine/OS info. :-
- Asus P3B-F (440BX chip) ver 1005 (1006 doesn't have any LS-120
fixes), and Asus CUBX (440BX) ver 1005
- All machines have SCSI, some Adaptec 160, others Tekram (NCR53C895
based card)
- LS-120 drive does not have any manufacturing info. I can find. The
model is a LKM-F933-1 or LKM-F934-1 and the manual is printed in
Japan.
- Linux 2.2.16
I am uncertain as to where to start looking for this problem. If I
have missed something in the manual the please point me in the right
direction. Otherwise I can compile install a "debug" version if this
will obtain more information.
Thanks for any help,
Sincerely,
Adrian Phillips
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