Re: [ot] <rant>grub is great!</rant> (was Re: woody Debian Installer plans)
Will this work if the BIOS geometry does not match at all with the drive's
reported geomety? Drive geometry is 8748/64/32 and BIOS' idea was
something weird like 156/4/14 or something. I'd get an MBR and then 'LIL-'
from lilo. So installing grub in the partition boot record and using
--force-lba ought to work?
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Lindsay Allen wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Sep 2000 ferret@phonewave.net wrote:
>
> >
> > Do you think I might be able to get grub booting off the hard drive with
> > that option? I would have to take down the machine and install a VGA
> > console into it to try, so I'd rather not unless you think it should work.
>
> I have a 30G drive here in a box with an old motherboard and the only way
> I can get grub to boot it is to put the boot files in the first partition.
>
> If you go down this track use grub from woody - it has much improved
> documentation which makes your first install a lot easier.
>
> We need to get the kernel crew to support grub so that "make install"
> knows about it.
>
> Lindsay
>
> >
> > Exactly how did you install grub on your disk?
> >
> > On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Josip Rodin wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 07:58:50AM -0700, ferret@phonewave.net wrote:
> > > > One thing grub appears to be unable to do as well is compensate for a
> > > > broken BIOS.. But except for fixing the BIOS, what can? I have a
> > > > SCSI-based DEC server with an 8GB limited SCSI BIOS, and I didn't know it
> > > > until I attempted to upgrade the hard drive.
> > > >
> > > > grub was able to show me what the problem was (BIOS 'geomerty' was
> > > > completely screwed up) but was unable to boot to the drive even from
> > > > floppy. :/
> > >
> > > Did you try install with the --force-lba parameter? It helped me.
> > >
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