On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 07:53:05PM +0100, Peter Ruskin wrote:
> > GRUB isn't bug-free, so we _do_ need both. I used to use grub and
>
> Sure it isn't, but I'll bet that LILO isn't either.
>
> > preferred it to lilo, but since I now boot from a SCSI disk on an Adaptec
> > 2940U controller it won't work for me. AFAIK, lilo works on anything, so
>
> Is this a known problem of grub with Adaptec controllers?
>
Extract from my post to this list Thu, 24 Aug 2000 04:31:01 +0100 ...
Thanks Pixel, tried that. It's a GRUB bug. /usr/doc/grub-doc-0.5.94/BUGS:
- GRUB hangs up when accessing a disk via Adaptec AIC-7880
SCSI-controller in LBA mode. It is unknown if this is due to GRUB or
the SCSI BIOS. For now, you need to disable the BIOS support for
INT 13 Extension (that is, you can't use the LBA mode).
This means there's no support for my Adaptec 2940U card unless I use a
tiny disk. All I get is the one liner: "stage 1". So it's back to lilo
for me.
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