On Sun, Dec 30, 2001, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > At Sun, 30 Dec 2001 01:26:51 -0500, > Daniel Freedman wrote: > > However, the really confusing or disturbing thing is that it sometimes > > work perfectly fine and completely boots from this partition, yet > > sometimes doesn't work and fails with the above message. And, worse, > > try as I might I can't find any type of reproducibility in it (the > > only clue seems to be that I can seem to coerce grub to better > > recognize this partition if I give it a 'geometry (hd0)' on the > > command line beforehand). Also, it's never worked from this partition > > when automated from a menu, but can be made to work by entering the > > exact same commands from the grub command line. Seems strange to > > me... > > That's too strange, but that is perhaps because there is code that > depends on something happening by chance (e.g. the timer, the layout > of the stack...). The code may be in GRUB, or, may be in your BIOS. > > Anyway, please try the latest version in the CVS first, as I have done > a change which might be related to your problem right now.
Hi Okuji, Wow! This latest CVS (checked out only a few hours after my last) now works perfectly, and reproducibly so, at least in my configuration. Just out of curiosity, were you fixing this before my bug-report or did that trigger something? And I guess it ended up being some form of timer issue in GRUB? Though it doesn't now effect me, just for my future info, should GRUB be able to boot from a partition located at any location on the drive (ie 40GB, 60GB high, etc.) assuming correct (LBA) BIOS information? Anyway, thanks so very much for your help, especially so quickly on a late Saturday night near the holidays. Once again, Free Software delivers! Take care and best wishes for a happy and healthy New Year, Daniel -- Daniel A. Freedman Laboratory for Atomic and Solid State Physics Department of Physics Cornell University _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub