Re: mkbimage && grub && geometry -w

[Thierry Laronde]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 07:15:49PM +0100, Greg Buchholz wrote:
> 
>       I grabbed the patch at alpha.polynum.ORG and complied up a new
> grub 0.92.  When I tried my previous version of mkbimage, everything
> appeared to work okay, but when I tried booting the cd, I got a mesage
> like...
> 
> Boot from CD:B
> 1:  HD System Type - (0F)
> 
> ... which I assume is from the bios telling me that it found a HD image.
> But unfortunately it then hangs without starting grub.  So then I

Not all BIOS support the HD image. So try to build a 2.88 boot floppy
image, and let the kernel access the CD.

BTW, I think you need the "old" version of mkbimage, the new has been
tested I think by Robert against 0.93 (I have only tested against 0.92
and the new mkbimage in GRUB CVS is only for the future maintenance of
the script; keep in sync 0.92+patches+"old" mkbimage).

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