Re: Grub not working with minix fs

2001-04-20 Thread Christoph Plattner
Hello ! The problem could be the "minix" version. There are two minix fs out in the world. One is called Old-Minix in Linux's fdisk, supporting up to 14 characters file names and up to 64MB (AFAIK). The new minix file system has much larger limits (256 char names, etc...). I don't know exactly,

Anyone having problems with Adaptec AIC7XXX SCSI ?

2001-04-20 Thread Thierry Laronde
Hello, I experience problems with GRUB on "old" machines with a SCSI drive on an Adaptec AIC7XX controler. Every command involving seeking the drive for informations causes the PC to reboot (`find', completion, kernel etc... : every attempt to access the drive). The version of GRUB is the last

Re: Suggestions and questions

2001-04-20 Thread Gordon Matzigkeit
Bovy, Stephen writes: BS The old os/2 boot loader was designed very cleverly to utilize BS that "wasted" space. All config info was saved in the (1) meg BS mbr. Grub does that, too. Just use the `setup (hd0)', and it'll automatically find the best place to put auxilliary files. Oh, but