Re: grub doesn't boot after lowmem install

2004-06-11 Thread W. Borgert
On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 06:53:35PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > W. Borgert wrote: > > What is the solution? Use LILO? > > A small /boot partition and grub works for me. Hm, the harddisk is already very small, so I don't want to waste space with multiple partitions. Also, my other problem remains:

Re: grub doesn't boot after lowmem install

2004-06-11 Thread Joey Hess
W. Borgert wrote: > What is the solution? Use LILO? A small /boot partition and grub works for me. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: grub doesn't boot after lowmem install

2004-06-11 Thread W. Borgert
On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 02:05:34PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Right, but it still seems to be a bios issue, it's unable to access all > of the drive. They never really fix this, just push the problem back What is the solution? Use LILO? I had LILO on that machine before, so it still should work.

Re: grub doesn't boot after lowmem install

2004-06-11 Thread Joey Hess
W. Borgert wrote: > On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 12:38:30PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > ... grub hangs ... > > I've seen grub do this if the root partition extends too far from the > > front of the drive, and the /boot part happens to land back there. This > > happens to me on a modern p4 with a 30 gb dri

Re: grub doesn't boot after lowmem install

2004-06-11 Thread W. Borgert
On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 12:38:30PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: ... grub hangs ... > I've seen grub do this if the root partition extends too far from the > front of the drive, and the /boot part happens to land back there. This > happens to me on a modern p4 with a 30 gb drive. My drive has ~0.5 GB...

Re: grub doesn't boot after lowmem install

2004-06-11 Thread Joey Hess
W. Borgert wrote: > The install on my 24 MB machine (486, 100 MHz) went fine > using the anna patch by Sylvain Ferriol. Unfortunately, > when booting after 1st stage install, I get: > > GRUB Loading stage1.5. > > > GRUB loading, please wait... > > (note the different case of 'loading') > > I

grub doesn't boot after lowmem install

2004-06-11 Thread W. Borgert
The install on my 24 MB machine (486, 100 MHz) went fine using the anna patch by Sylvain Ferriol. Unfortunately, when booting after 1st stage install, I get: GRUB Loading stage1.5. GRUB loading, please wait... (note the different case of 'loading') I waited several(!) minutes, but nothing hap