Hi! David Teague <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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've heard that older versions of GRUB are having problems with ext2 file-systems created by recent versions of the e2fsprogs. As you say that you have reinstalled your system, you might want to try a newer one (I don't know when exactly this has been fixed - I'm using 0.93.1 which works fine). > I thought that grub understood ext2 file system and could > thereby avoid the 500MB/1024 cylender problem. Can this > be wrong?!? It's right, but only if you are using LBA. Hope this helps, Lars LocalWords: LBA
