RE: boot floppy fails on different machine

[Treutwein Bernhard]

Hi Peter,

what kind of a machine is it ?

what peripherals ?

I had problems some time ago with a PC where the ZIP
drive was set up us Floppy A and therefore the machine
locked up in a similar way, but that was an actual PIII


regards

--
        Bernhard Treutwein, IuK, Ref. III A 3
        address@hidden

> 
> Message: 7
> Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 18:11:13 +0900
> From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" <address@hidden>
> To: Peter Baxendale <address@hidden>
> Cc: Hans-Christian Armingeon <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> Subject: Re: boot floppy fails on different machine
> Organization: enBUG.org
> 
> At 19 May 2002 12:50:11 +0100,
> Peter Baxendale wrote:
> > Then I tried the binaries at ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/ :
> > tar xvfz grub-0.92-i386-pc.tar.gz
> > cd grub-0.92-i386-pc/boot/grub
> > dd if=stage1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1
> > dd if=stage2 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 seek=1
> > This has exactly the same end result - hang with the 486.
> 
> One possible cause may be the BIOS setting. For example, you must make
> sure that the geometry of the floppy is identical to the media you
> used for GRUB.
> 
> However, I wouldn't be surprised even if GRUB doesn't work with 486,
> as I haven't tested it with 486 at all (simply because I have no
> 486). Does anyone use GRUB with 486 with no problem?
> 
> Thanks,
> Okuji