A bit more on this. It's actually hanging right at the disk system
reset at the top of codestart in asm.S. If I remove the reset, my
system reboots (and I can't tell exactly where the reboot happens). I
removed the reset on a Phoenix BIOS based system and everything
continued to work without a
Marc, I can confirm that another machine with an AMI BIOS core is
having exactly the same problem you're having. Placing GRUB totally
on a floppy works; you can boot GRUB on the floppy, access the disks
including the stage1.5 image that fails to load when start.S tries to
load it when booting fro