From: "Bill Parker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: A beginners GRUB installation problem
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 15:58:21 -0400
> Following the "GRUB Installation Guide", on drive C, I created <\boot\grub>;
> here I put the binary <stage2> file. Next, I booted the system with the
> GRUB boot floppy; at the prompt I typed the following command (this is from
> the second installation example in the GRUB Installation Guide, ". . .
> placing the stage1 on the floppy . . .")
>
> install= (fd0)+1 d (fd0) (hd0,0)\boot\grub\stage2 0x800 p
The separator is a slash (/) but not a backslash(\), like Unix. And,
the address you should specify is 0x8000 but not 0x800.
> The GRUB boot disk accepted the command without error. However, when I boot
> the machine from the GRUB boot floppy, there is no prompt and the machine
> appears to be halted.
Hmm..., looking at the code that installs stage1, it seems not to
detect any error that the stage2 argument will occur and to continue
the installation. That's horrible. I'm planning to rewrite the
command-line handling code, so that will be fixed at the same time.
Thanks,
OKUJI
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OKUJI Yoshinori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ^o-o^
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