Re: Grub installation guide: [was Re: Install from FreeBSD]
From: Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <tosi@ees2.oulu.fi>
Subject: Re: Grub installation guide: [was Re: Install from FreeBSD]
Date: 03 Feb 2000 11:01:20 +0200
> Well, not even GRUB 0.5.93.1 can get past the 1024-cylinder
> barrier on this machine. Neil Turton's mbr-1.1.0 didn't run
> properly either. It turned out that the BIOS supports the INT
> 0x13, AH=0x41, BX=0x55AA call (properly setting BX=0xAA55) but
> the bitmap returned in CL has 0 in the lowest bit. mbr-1.1.0
> didn't check that and then failed to chainload.
Then, try the current. It should work in LBA mode even for your
buggy BIOS.
> Also, a separate partition can be mounted read-only most of the
> time. :-)
I see. Probably that is the only advantage. :p
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