I wrote: > I unpacked the Hurd last night. I can't boot it because the GRUB floppy > doesn't work with my LS-120 drive. I suspect that it is misconfigured > because most boot floppies (e.g. Debian Linux) work with my LS-120 > drive just the same as they work with an ordinary floppy. > > I'll copy this to the list in case anyone knows of such a problem with > Hurd's GRUB. Otherwise I'll see if I can use the floppy to reinstall > GRUB onto itself (using my other machine which has an ordinary floppy > but nowhere near enough disc space for playing with Hurds).
I took the most recent GRUB (0.5) and built it myself. The disc I got was no better: it works with the ordinary floppy but doesn't work with the LS-120. I had heard good things about GRUB so I'm disappointed. Does anyone have any suggestions about how I might boot the Hurd? It's in a partition that neither the BIOS nor LILO can see, I think, and since GRUB won't boot from the floppy, I can't see any way of getting GRUB onto the system. If I could, somehow, get GRUB onto the system, is it likely that it would succeed in reading disc cylinders that the BIOS can't? (It's a recent BIOS but the disc was originally partitioned on a different system and uses a geometry and BIOS settings that prevent the BIOS from seeing it all, I suspect.) Is there a way of using Linux as a boot loader ...? Edmund
