GRUB problems with Deb 2.0
Hi
A GRUB floppy won't boot my old system which has a 486/66, 16 MB
RAM, VL bus mother board, adaptec 2840 with (now) one 1GB scsi drive
(Bios is enabled on the controller for that drive) and a scsi CD
ROM. Linux 2.0 is on /dev/sda1, swap is on /dev/sda2. 2.0.34
Kernel. The kernel is redev'ed to these parameters.
I give these commands to grub and get the indicated responses:
grub> root (hd0,0)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0.83
grub> kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1
[Linux-zImage, setup=0x1200, size=0x68ee0]
grub> boot
The screen goes black and absolutely nothing else happens.
Will someone help me to identify the problem?
I thought that grub understood ext2 file system and could
thereby avoid the 500MB/1024 cylender problem. Can this
be wrong?!?
Notes: 1) This grub boot disk will boot my K6-2-350 system bought
last year. It doesn't have the small boot partition to put the
kernel inside the 1024 cylender boundary - the k6 sytem boots with
grub anyhow.
2) I had a flakey drive to crash, eating the partition table on
the boot drive and the system on the 1Gig drive, so I removed those
drives and reinstalled 2.0 on the 1Gig drive.
3) I am still using 2.0 on the old system because I could not get
Slink boot disks to work with this system, Either scsi isn't enabled
in that kernel or there are to many probes, confusing the adaptec
controller. I'll ask about that later, after building a new kernel
and trying again.
--David
David Teague, dbt@cs.wcu.edu
Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely,
useful, technically accurate, and friendly.
(I'm hoping this is all of the above!)
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