Re: Grub boots only from floppy

1999-02-09 Thread Matthias Pfisterer
Vaibhav Vaish wrote: We're having the following problem: On a P-II with adaptec SCSI drive, we have linux and NT. Using a grub floppy, we can boot into both. When we install grub install= (fd0)+1 (hd0) (hd0,1)/boot/grub/stage2 0x8000 p (where hd0,1 = sda1 holds the linux root

Re: Grub boots only from floppy

1999-02-09 Thread Roland McGrath
The problem might be that your /boot/grub/stage2 file resides in disk blocks that are too far to address with the old BIOS interface that grub's stage1 uses. If that filesystem is more than a few hundred megabytes from the start of the disk, that could be it.

Re: Grub boots only from floppy

1999-02-09 Thread Vaibhav Vaish
The problem might be that your /boot/grub/stage2 file resides in disk blocks that are too far to address with the old BIOS interface that grub's stage1 uses. If that filesystem is more than a few hundred megabytes from the start of the disk, that could be it. Thank you, that's precisely what