From: Zack Weinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Bug#35850: grub: stage1 does not work as MBR
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 19:50:41 -0500
> >install (fd0)+1 d (hd0) (hd0,0)/stage2 p (hd0,0)/menu.lst
>
> That worked.
It turned out that your BIOS was too buggy. Please tell me what BIOS
you are using (the vendor, the version, etc.) and what SCSI card you
are using if you have a SCSI.
> The documentation for 'd' is confusing - what did that do?
Is the current documentation so difficult to understand?
If the option `d' is present, the Stage 1 will always look for
the actual disk STAGE2_FILE was installed on, rather than
using the booting drive.
You are the second person who reported that he had a trouble with a
buggy BIOS which didn't pass the number of a booting driver to a boot
loader correctly. If the user has such a BIOS unfortunaly, he has to
use the option `d' to hard-code the booting drive in the Stage
1. *sigh*
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