RE: GRUB fails to boot Win98

2002-05-23 Thread Graham Smith
Okuji, Further to my earlier message, now that I've had time to think about it. Assuming that the drive number and offset in the message are swapped it would appear that when chainloading Win98 from GRUB installed on the hard disk it is attempting to read sector 0x1a0b9a4 from (hd0).

red hat 7.3, grub failing on raid 1

2002-05-23 Thread thing
Hi Just tried rh 7.3 and grub for the first time.not a good experience The machine wont boot except via a floppy. I got, GRUB and it hangs. so i boot via the floppy, then, If I go into a grub shell I can do, root (hd0,0) and i get Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0xfd

GNU GRUB Question

2002-05-23 Thread Jim Urban
Hi, I plan to convert my PC to a dual boot system. I currently run OS/2 (yes some of us still use it) and plan to install Red Hat. I plan to use GNU GRUB instead of IBMs Boot Manager since it appears GRUB has more functionality. I am particularly interested in GRUBs ability to access

Re: GRUB fails to boot Win98

2002-05-23 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
At Thu, 23 May 2002 08:07:44 +0100, Graham Smith wrote: Assuming that the drive number and offset in the message are swapped it would appear that when chainloading Win98 from GRUB installed on the hard disk it is attempting to read sector 0x1a0b9a4 from (hd0). Interestingly this is the

grub and devfs

2002-05-23 Thread Christian Hesse
Hello! I've just installed a Linux from Scratch with device filesystem. Of course I use grub as my prferred bootloader. ;) But I had some trouble writing it to the mbr: root@kronos-zwei:~# grub-install /dev/discs/disc0/disc /dev/discs/disc0/disc does not have any corresponding BIOS drive. As

Re: grub and devfs

2002-05-23 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hi, Christian! I've just installed a Linux from Scratch with device filesystem. Of course I use grub as my prferred bootloader. ;) But I had some trouble writing it to the mbr: You forgot the version of GRUB. Not all versions are equal! root@kronos-zwei:~# grub-install

Re: grub and devfs

2002-05-23 Thread Alex Thiel
Try giving the device the GRUB way, i.e. grub-install '(hd0)' Worked for me. Cheers, Alex On Thursday 23 May 2002 17:01, Christian Hesse wrote: Hello! I've just installed a Linux from Scratch with device filesystem. Of course I use grub as my prferred bootloader. ;) But I had some

When Might GRUB Work With RAID-0?

2002-05-23 Thread Jud
From reading the mailing list, it appears that GRUB works with RAID-1 on ext2fs. I'm running FreeBSD (and Win2K) on a RAID-0 array. Before I set up the array, GRUB was my preferred boot loader. I was wondering whether there are plans to get GRUB to work with RAID levels other than RAID-1,

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Re: grub and devfs

2002-05-23 Thread Christian Hesse
On Thursday 23 May 2002 17:30, Pavel Roskin wrote: You forgot the version of GRUB. Not all versions are equal! Sorry, I've forgotten to mention that. I'm using grub 0.92 with linux 2.4.18. / ist ext3, /boot is still ext2. root@kronos-zwei:~# grub-install /dev/discs/disc0/disc