On Wed, 01 Dec 1999 10:58:33 +0900, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote:
>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.
No SCSI. The BIOS identifies itself as follows:
Phoenix NoteBIOS 4.0
copyright 1985-1995 Phoenix Technologies Ltd.
Fujitsu Limited.
LifeBook 400 BIOS version 31J0103A
As you might have guessed, this is a model 400 (435Dx) Fujitsu laptop. I am
not at all surprised to hear the BIOS is buggy.
>> 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.
I misinterpreted this, I thought it would mean the stage1 would look for
the stage2 on the floppy (which is no longer there). This is probably
because 'd' is used in the examples section only when you want to leave the
stage1 on the floppy - yes, I see that's something else now.
I'd suggest rephrasing it thus:
If the 'd' option is present, the first stage will look for the
second stage on the disk referenced in this command, not on the
boot drive reported by the BIOS.
and possibly adding a note about buggy BIOSes.
zw
