On 12/27/2010 01:30 PM, Andreas Born wrote: > Ok, here you go. I created the same iso image I referred to earlier in > this thread with grub 1.98 and cdfailinf/cdfailwa patch applied. > > cdfailinf (broken machine): 0 0 0 > cdfailinf (working machine): 0 0 9f > Jusging from this output a smaller workaround is enough for your machine. However I committed cdfailwa as it will probably workaround some more BIOSes with similar problem. Thanks for reporting and testing. > cdfailwa brings up the menu on the broken machine and on another > working machine, where I tested it too. > > Hope that helps. > > Regards, > Andreas > > > Am 25.12.2010 21:45, schrieb Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko: >> On 09/08/2010 06:31 PM, Andreas Born wrote: >> >>> Am 08.09.2010 17:46, schrieb Colin Watson: >>> >>>> On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 05:28:07PM +0200, Andreas Born wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> - Starting Grub2 fails on my pretty new desktop (the only such >>>>> report >>>>> as far as I'm concerned) >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Fails how? >>>> >>>> >>> After selecting to boot from cdrom in the bios it outputs the >>> following: >>> Welcome to GRUB! >>> >>> error: hd111 cannot get C/H/S values. >>> Enetering rescue mode... >>> grub rescue> >>> >>> Then I'm at the rescue prompt. >>> >>> >> Looks like your BIOS has problems with cd drive. I attach 2 patches. One >> to try to gather more info for better workaround and another one to >> basically ignore cdinfo altogether. Could you test them? >> >>> The problem is reproducible with SalixLive or a minimal image I've >>> created for testing purpose, but so far only on that one machine of >>> mine. You can acquire the latter here: >>> http://gaia.homelinux.org/misc/grub-test.iso (4.3M) >>> >>> I've experimented a bit with ls on the rescue prompt here's the output: >>> >>>> ls >>>> >>> (hd0) >>> >>>> ls (hd0) >>>> >>> error: unknown filesystem >>> >>> If you need anything else, just let me know and I'll try to do my best >>> to help you. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Andreas >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Grub-devel mailing list >>> Grub-devel@gnu.org >>> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel >>> >>> >> >> > >
-- Regards Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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