back in July Victor wrote a patch that gets large 2.4
kernels to boot properly. i wonder whether this had
made its way into the main linux or grub code. had
anyone tried to boot large (1.1MB) linux bzImage
kernels using GRUB recently?
this is the URL for the patch that Victor sent in:
On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to use GRUB 0.5.96.1 to boot Win98SE from an extended partition
(drive G: in win98, /dev/sda7 in linux), but the boot loader just gives the
standard "invalid system" message. Booting the same partition works fine
with the OS/2
I am not sure wheter also OS/2 boot manager uses this way to boot
operating systems from logical disks, maybe there is other posibility.
It doesn't. It uses a much cleaner "load the boot sector, apply a bit
of black magic[1] and start it" approach which does not result in
random partition
On Jan 5, Matthias Granberry wrote:
Thanks. It worked like a charm. Why is it that embed worked while
installing on a floppy disk? I guess it might have something to do with
being unpartitioned.
Yes, the code to embed after the MBR was broken, but a floppy doesn't
have a MBR.
BTW, the
On Jan 7, Michael Haub wrote:
Thanks a lot Jochen,
Correct me if i am wrong:
AFIAK Ontrack's Diskmanager has the same features and hides its
presence better than EZ-BIOS. The lost bytes in the first track
don't matter for nowadays disk sizes.
Yes, as long as the Diskmanager is installed
With help by Ingo, I made Windows bootable from a logical
partition with GRUB. The problem was that Windows recorded an invalid
start address in the BPB of his logical partition. It seems that
Windows just saves the same start address of a logical partition as
its partition table entry in its
GRUB already has better support for Linux. See the file NEWS for
more details.
Okuji
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Subject: Re: EZ-Bios and embeding stage 1.5
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 15:59:15 +0100 (MET)
There could be a new command for this purpose, e.g.
"write FILE BLOCKLIST", which could then be used as backend for embed.
But again the question is how many
Hi,
Seems that I found a problem with ReiserFS GRUB in
grub-0.5.96(2000-10-06).
When I install GRUB by install command to hard drive where we have
installed ReiserFS it generate such error:
29 : Disk write error
And after rebooting show just stage1 message.
But I can boot Linux manualy, I mean
