On 19 Jan 2000, Lars Weber wrote:
Hi Lars.
> David Teague <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > A GRUB floppy won't boot my old system which has a 486/66, 16 MB
> [...]
>
> I've heard that older versions of GRUB are having problems with ext2
> file-systems created by recent versions of the e2fsprogs.
This is Debian 2.0, so the version of e2fs is not recent.
> 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).
This is the GRUB off a Dec 30 1999 snapshot of Potato, right off the
server. I'll check the version, but I suspect it is quite recent.
> > 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.
No LBA on this 1Gig drive, it is scsi. I got whatever Adaptec 2840
gives me. Can I change geometry in some way?
It looks like I'll have to save my data, make a small boot partition
where I'll put the kernel, and reinstall. It WILL be Potato this
time, dadgummit.
Many thanks.
--David
David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely,
useful, technically accurate, and friendly.
(I'm hoping this is all of the above!)
