Re: Troubles with grub on my SCSI drive

[OKUJI Yoshinori]

From: Goran Koruga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Troubles with grub on my SCSI drive
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 17:39:48 +0100

> the 0xFF value at offset 0x40. And I thought - hey what if I got wrong
> value there ? (This occured to me after seeing that DX had a value of
> 1 when booting from hard disk with SoftIce). So I wrote dumb "stage1"
> which just told me whether the value in DX is >= 80 or not. And it
> wasn't. So I simply put 0x80 at offset 0x40 and that fixed it (I know
> that GRUB would have done the same had I used the 'd' flag during the
> installation).

  That's surprising! Probably many, many boot loaders cannot work.

> PS. Maybe it's worth putting this into docs so that another user with
> problematic BIOS won't run into the same problem.

  Can you tell us your BIOS information (vendor, version, etc.)?

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