On Sunday 03 February 2008 17:53, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > 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.
I think I have fixed it. Please test it, if you can. Okuji _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
