Hello, Erich!
> > This time BIOS apparently believes that all diskettes in 2.88M drives
> > should also be 2.88M
> > Stage1 tries to read sectors above 18 and gets an error.
>
> The point is that, with the iterative probe, both the stage1 and stage2
> should not believe the BIOS anyway.
Neither
From: Peter Åstrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Floppy geometry detection (was: 2.88 Mb)
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 07:16:42 +0200 (CEST)
> Has this been observed even for new
> computers?
Good question. Unfortunately, I don't know the answer because all
floppies I ha
OKUJI Yoshinori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Has this been changed since the old GRUB 0.5? It was there for a
> > reason.
>
> Yes, we have changed this to use BIOS, because your original code
> didn't work with the "floppy emulation" in the El Torito
> specification. It seems that we shoul
> Yes, we have changed this to use BIOS, because your original code
> didn't work with the "floppy emulation" in the El Torito
> specification. It seems that we should reconsider the floppy probe
> technique. Perhaps the right thing to do is:
>
> 1) Call INT 13, AX=4B01 (Bootable CD-ROM - GET S
From: Erich Boleyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Floppy geometry detection (was: 2.88 Mb)
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 21:44:43 -0700
> Has this been changed since the old GRUB 0.5? It was there for a
> reason.
Yes, we have changed this to use BIOS, because your original code
didn
Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Rogelio M. Serrnao wrote:
>
> > I have an IBM PS2 77s with a 2.88 Mb disk drive. I dd'd GRUB stage1 and
> > stage2 on a 1.44 Mb diskette. When I try to boot from that diskette, all I
> > get is "Read Error".This does not happen with
From: Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Floppy geometry detection (was: 2.88 Mb)
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 17:20:30 +0400 (EEST)
> The first time BIOS thought that the disk A: is 1.2M while it was a 1.44M
> drive and a 1.44M diskette.
Is this applicable to the current as we
Hello!
On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Rogelio M. Serrnao wrote:
> I have an IBM PS2 77s with a 2.88 Mb disk drive. I dd'd GRUB stage1 and
> stage2 on a 1.44 Mb diskette. When I try to boot from that diskette, all I
> get is "Read Error".This does not happen with lilo. I intend to use GRUB
> to boot Mach4.
