On Sunday 03 February 2008 16:18, Robert Millan wrote: > On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 09:47:17AM -0500, George Lengel wrote: > > Dear Robert, > > > > I now get a 0x80 at the top of the screen just before the rescue mode > > line. This indicates I am using my compiled version and also confirms > > your suspicion about the BIOS, right? > > > > >What version of GRUB Legacy did you install in that system? Did you > > > modify GRUB Legacy when you installed it, or something like that? > > > > I use Grub legacy from Debian which is 0.97. It has worked for years and > > years without any problem and I never did anything past a simple apt-get > > and accept the defaults when configuring it. > > Can you check if you can override the root device by invoking grub-setup > manually with --root-device parameter?
I have looked at this problem deeply, and I think the following changes would be required: - A variable to specify where grub.cfg and modules are present. Currently, we have it only for a prefix without a drive. So grub_root_drive or something must be added. It could be added to kern/i386/pc/startup.S, but boot/i386/pc/boot.S might be more appropriate (if there is space large enough). - grub-setup must handle a root drive independently, of a boot drive or an embedding drive. - kern/i386/pc/init.c must be modified accordingly. The scinarii would be the following: - If a core image is embedded, and a grub directory is in the same drive, all drives should be set to -1, thus a boot drive passed by BIOS or another boot loader will be used. - If a core image is embedded, and a grub directory is in a different drive, a root drive must be explicitly set by grub-setup. The other drives will be set by BIOS or another boot loader. - If a core image is not embedded, and it is in the same drive, the same as the first example. - If a core image is not embedded, and it is in a different drive, an embedding drive is identical to a root drive, and must be set explicitly by grub-setup. I am planning to fix it myself, but if I look too slow, please feel free to fix it instead of me. Okuji _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
