On Saturday 21 January 2006 18:21, Marco Gerards wrote: > Tony Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I discovered a possible GRUB problem when booting from the Xen Live > > CD. I raised a bug there: > > > > http://bugzilla.xensource.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=464 > > > > The short version seems to be that GRUB doesn't seem to want to find > > my CD-ROM drive. When I boot from the Live CD, it drops me to the > > "grub>" prompt. If I type "configfile (<TAB>", I see "fd0 fd1... fd7 > > hd". No "cd" in there. > > In that case it is not exported by the BIOS. There is nothing GRUB > can do about it...
I don't agree. Clearly, his BIOS could boot up the CD itself, and GRUB failed in recognizing the drive. I always doubt that the drive detection code for CD drives in GRUB is buggy. Unfortunately, I don't have such a drive or BIOS which does not work with GRUB, so I cannot debug it myself. Okuji _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
