Re: grub 0.5.93.1 failure to initialize root/geometry on (fd0)

2000-02-03 Thread Gordon Matzigkeit
> OKUJI Yoshinori writes: OY> This is almost equivalent to flushing the cache OY> when the prompt is displayed, because GRUB does nothing anyway OY> until the user pushes the enter key. I don't know why Gordon OY> discarded the code exactly, but perhaps he misunderstood it since OY> it i

Re: grub 0.5.93.1 failure to initialize root/geometry on (fd0)

2000-02-03 Thread OKUJI Yoshinori
From: Jeff Sheinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: grub 0.5.93.1 failure to initialize root/geometry on (fd0) Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 16:50:18 -0500 (EST) > Grub will either report false information or go into an infinite > loop when the disk media on (fd0) is physically changed. Tha

Re: grub 0.5.93.1 failure to initialize root/geometry on (fd0)

2000-02-02 Thread Erich Boleyn
Erich Boleyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > Yes. I've noticed this and a few other problems which appear to have > been caused by "cleanups" to my original code by others working on it. ... > I think part of the point here is that a bootloader has a lot of > weird corner cases, and one should

Re: grub 0.5.93.1 failure to initialize root/geometry on (fd0)

2000-02-02 Thread Erich Boleyn
Jeff Sheinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Grub will either report false information or go into an infinite > loop when the disk media on (fd0) is physically changed. Yes. I've noticed this and a few other problems which appear to have been caused by "cleanups" to my original code by others

grub 0.5.93.1 failure to initialize root/geometry on (fd0)

2000-02-02 Thread Jeff Sheinberg
Grub will either report false information or go into an infinite loop when the disk media on (fd0) is physically changed. I discovered this error after booting grub, but it can also be duplicated using the grub shell. Once grub has reported the root device on an ext2fs or an msdos fs on (fd0), a