Re: Couldn't boot from CD on IBM ThinkPad 600X

[Jochen Hoenicke]

On Mar 30, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote:
> From: Anton Safonov <address@hidden>
> Subject: Couldn't boot from CD on IBM ThinkPad 600X
> Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 14:23:30 +0200
> 
> > Have found strange problem! I have a bootable CD with GRUB on it and
> > trying to boot from it on subject.
> > Tried several versions, got:
> > 0.5.94: "stage1 "
> > 0.5.97: "GRUB Read error"
> > 
> > What could be the reason?
> 
> It is likely that the BIOS is buggy. Please try to investigate a
> workaround.
> 

This reminds me of my booting from ZIP disk problem.  I patched grub
to read a fixed geometry from the boot sector, just as DOS does it.
The patch didn't get into grub at that time and the boot-sector has
changed too much since, so it doesn't apply cleanly.

I have made a new version of that patch, but never really tested it.
I uploaded it in the savannah patch manager:

  http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?group_id=68

More information is on the patch page.

  Jochen