Re: GRUB problems with Deb 2.0
Hi! David Teague [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A GRUB floppy won't boot my old system which has a 486/66, 16 MB RAM, VL bus mother board, adaptec 2840 with (now) one 1GB scsi drive (Bios is enabled on the controller for that drive) and a scsi CD ROM. Linux 2.0 is on /dev/sda1, swap is on /dev/sda2. 2.0.34 Kernel. The kernel is redev'ed to these parameters. [...] I've heard that older versions of GRUB are having problems with ext2 file-systems created by recent versions of the e2fsprogs. As you say that you have reinstalled your system, you might want to try a newer one (I don't know when exactly this has been fixed - I'm using 0.93.1 which works fine). I thought that grub understood ext2 file system and could thereby avoid the 500MB/1024 cylender problem. Can this be wrong?!? It's right, but only if you are using LBA. Hope this helps, Lars LocalWords: LBA
Re: GRUB problems with Deb 2.0
On 19 Jan 2000, Lars Weber wrote: Hi Lars. David Teague [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A GRUB floppy won't boot my old system which has a 486/66, 16 MB [...] I've heard that older versions of GRUB are having problems with ext2 file-systems created by recent versions of the e2fsprogs. This is Debian 2.0, so the version of e2fs is not recent. As you say that you have reinstalled your system, you might want to try a newer one (I don't know when exactly this has been fixed - I'm using 0.93.1 which works fine). This is the GRUB off a Dec 30 1999 snapshot of Potato, right off the server. I'll check the version, but I suspect it is quite recent. I thought that grub understood ext2 file system and could thereby avoid the 500MB/1024 cylender problem. Can this be wrong?!? It's right, but only if you are using LBA. No LBA on this 1Gig drive, it is scsi. I got whatever Adaptec 2840 gives me. Can I change geometry in some way? It looks like I'll have to save my data, make a small boot partition where I'll put the kernel, and reinstall. It WILL be Potato this time, dadgummit. Many thanks. --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (I'm hoping this is all of the above!)
GRUB problems with Deb 2.0
Hi A GRUB floppy won't boot my old system which has a 486/66, 16 MB RAM, VL bus mother board, adaptec 2840 with (now) one 1GB scsi drive (Bios is enabled on the controller for that drive) and a scsi CD ROM. Linux 2.0 is on /dev/sda1, swap is on /dev/sda2. 2.0.34 Kernel. The kernel is redev'ed to these parameters. I give these commands to grub and get the indicated responses: grub root (hd0,0) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0.83 grub kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 [Linux-zImage, setup=0x1200, size=0x68ee0] grub boot The screen goes black and absolutely nothing else happens. Will someone help me to identify the problem? I thought that grub understood ext2 file system and could thereby avoid the 500MB/1024 cylender problem. Can this be wrong?!? Notes: 1) This grub boot disk will boot my K6-2-350 system bought last year. It doesn't have the small boot partition to put the kernel inside the 1024 cylender boundary - the k6 sytem boots with grub anyhow. 2) I had a flakey drive to crash, eating the partition table on the boot drive and the system on the 1Gig drive, so I removed those drives and reinstalled 2.0 on the 1Gig drive. 3) I am still using 2.0 on the old system because I could not get Slink boot disks to work with this system, Either scsi isn't enabled in that kernel or there are to many probes, confusing the adaptec controller. I'll ask about that later, after building a new kernel and trying again. --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (I'm hoping this is all of the above!)
