On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 05:03:59PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Thierry Laronde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > As the only thing I've changed was the Installation of Mandrake > > > and grub I cleared the mbr from a Win bootdisk and started the system. > > > After that the standby-option was present again and worked well. > > > I thought that something went wrong with the grub-installation and so I > > > bootet my Linux from a bootdisk and reinstalled grub. > ... > > > Just a question, since some of us (I for one) don't have Windows, what > > is the standby-mode in Windows. Something related to APM or ACPI I > > guess? > > I have the same problem, and think I know what it is. > [..] > The bootloader shouldn't muck with the BIOS in an irreversible manner > unless you ask it to.
Thanks for the explanations Erich! I think indeed that the `boot' call should put the machine back in the clean state --- for example, with extended floppy formats, I have backed-up the INT 1E but at the moment, even if I change it I haven't put the code to restore it after... -- Thierry Laronde (Alceste) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
