Am Montag, 20. Mai 2002 11:11 schrieb Yoshinori K. Okuji: > At 19 May 2002 12:50:11 +0100, > > Peter Baxendale wrote: > > Then I tried the binaries at ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/ : > > tar xvfz grub-0.92-i386-pc.tar.gz > > cd grub-0.92-i386-pc/boot/grub > > dd if=stage1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1 > > dd if=stage2 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 seek=1 > > This has exactly the same end result - hang with the 486. > > One possible cause may be the BIOS setting. For example, you must make > sure that the geometry of the floppy is identical to the media you > used for GRUB. > > However, I wouldn't be surprised even if GRUB doesn't work with 486, > as I haven't tested it with 486 at all (simply because I have no > 486). Does anyone use GRUB with 486 with no problem?
I am using grub on my 486 Laptop, and it works great. The only problem is the BIOS. I can't access partitions over the 512 MB limit. Will there be a possibility to go around this limitation? > > Thanks, > Okuji tia, Johnny _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
