Re: RE: 1.68M boot floppy?

[suzukis]

>The geometry is properly seen by GRUB
>when I'm in the GRUB shell,
>but the boot goes nowhere after the stage1 message.

I suppose, GRUB shell accesses the devices via OS kernel
(if you run GRUB shell on Linux, via Linux device driver),
so it's not recommended to guess BIOS preference/limitations
by using GRUB shell.

suzuki