Hi!
Sounds like cdrom access in GRUB is broken:
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grub> root (cd0)
Error 23: Error while parsing number
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I traced this to stage2/disk_io.c:
|| (*device == 'c' && cdrom_drive != GRUB_INVALID_DRIVE))
&& (device += 2, (*(device - 1) != 'd')))
errnum = ERR_NUMBER_PARSING;
and then stage2/common.c:
/* Get the geometry. */
if (get_diskinfo (boot_drive, &geom)
|| ! (geom.flags & BIOSDISK_FLAG_CDROM))
cdrom_drive = GRUB_INVALID_DRIVE;
else
cdrom_drive = boot_drive;
I've been told that get_diskinfo interfaces directly with BIOS, and it
actualy seems like it is either returning non-0 or filling geom structure
with junk. Could someone clarify?
Also, are you people able to reproduce this bug? It happens on every box I
try so I doubt it's a BIOS bug, but who knows..
TIA
--
Robert Millan
"[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the
thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he
gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work."
-- J.R.R.T., Ainulindale (Silmarillion)
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