From: shawn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 0.9.52 bugs
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 04:35:21 -0700
> first of all, the GRUB now installs on my hardrive and it works on my
> 486! ya! great job!
You are welcome.
> 1. I had my BIOS detect my primary master but not the primary slave. I
> tried to set root= (hd1,0) and it said no disk was there, which is
> fine.
If you push <TAB> in the state of "root= (hd", what is displayed?
> but when I tried to set the root to (hd0,0) it said
>
> unknown file system, type 0x83
>
> Its an xt2fs linux partition. But I could boot (hd0,0) if I didn't try
> to set the root to (hd1,0) first. I setup the primary slave in the
> BIOS and both hds booted from the GRUB just fine.
That's mysterious. Can you investigate that for yourself? If it is
unclear where the command root fails, I can't fix that.
> the kernel I wanted to change to was vmlinuz-2.0.36, so I moved the
> cursor to the end of vmlinuz and tab completed. it completed but
> overwrote part of the 'root=..' part.
Ah, okay, this is a silly bug. I'll fix this during this month if
possible.
Thanks,
OKUJI
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