Re: geometry (fd0) command

[OKUJI Yoshinori]

Hello Jeff,

I took a look at the bug, but I didn't fix it, because I was very sure
that it would take long to do that, and the bug was not
fatal. Instead, I filed the information to the file BUGS for the
future. I will fix the bug, when we rewrite the code base from
scratch, unless someone submits a patch.

Thanks,
Okuji

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geometry (fd0) command

[Jeff Sheinberg]

Hi,

I am reporting some difficulty I had using the "geometry (fd0)"
command.

Using the "geometry (fd0)" command under the grub shell, I get the
following output,

GRUB  version 0.5.97  (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)

 [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported.  For the first
   word, TAB lists possible command completions.  Anywhere
   else TAB lists the possible completions of a
   device/filename. ]

grub geometry (fd0)
drive 0x0: C/H/S = 80/2/18, The number of sectors = 2880, /dev/fd0

Error 25: Disk read error
 Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x4f

Error 22: No such partition

while under the stand-alone grub, I get this similar output,

grub geometry (fd0)
drive 0x0: C/H/S = 80/2/18, The number of sectors = 2880, CHS

Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS
 Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x4f

Error 22: No such partition

It seems that grub is expecting to find an (hd0)-like partition
table on (fd0), which of course doesn't have one.

Thanks,
-- 
Jeff Sheinberg  [EMAIL PROTECTED]


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