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,

Grub not working with minix fs

2001-04-19 Thread *
After reading the article in the recent edition of the Linux Journal, I decided to take a look at grub. I had no problems with building grub and found that grub worked well with ext2 file systems and fat16 file systems. However, I discovered that grub could not recognize a minix file system.