Re: Grub not working with minix fs

[Christoph Plattner]

Hello !

The problem could be the "minix" version. There are two minix
fs out in the world. One is called Old-Minix in Linux's fdisk,
supporting up to 14 characters file names and up to 64MB (AFAIK).
The new minix file system has much larger limits (256 char names,
etc...).

I don't know exactly, but GRUB only supports the OLT-Minix style
FS. So the type entry in the partition table must be 0x80 (done
in Linux's fdisk) and not 0x81 hex or whatever.

Try this. 
Again, I am not sure if GRUB supports both minix fs versions,
but I think only the old one.

With friendly regards
        Christoph P.


* wrote:
> 
> After reading the article in the recent edition of the Linux Journal, I
> decided to take a look at grub.  I had no problems with building grub
> and found that grub worked well with ext2 file systems and fat16 file
> systems.  However, I discovered that grub could not recognize a minix
> file system.  My disk configuration is as follows:
> 
> hd0 -- a minix file system with a tiny linux installed (with lilo) on a
> compact flash IDE card.
> The bios and my linux systems work fine with this disk and treat it as a
> normal IDE disk.
> Grub refuses to recognize the minix file system.  I can use the chain
> loader to boot linux off this disk only by using the "rootnoverify
> (hd0,0)" + "chainloader --force +1" command followed by the "boot"
> command.  However, I have to enter these two commands twice to get it to
> work.
> 
> hd1 -- multiple partitions on a scsi disk.  grub correctly identifies
> the dos and ext2 partitions and file systems on this disk.  Grub boots
> linux correctly off the sda5 partition on this disk.  I have not been
> able to get the dos partition to boot correctly, yet.  I tried using
> "chainloader /bootsect.dos" which did not work.  I'll experiment more
> with this, which may be a problem in my setup of the dos partition.
> 
> hd2, hd3 -- scsi data disks.  Grub recognizes the ext2  file systems on
> these disks.
> 
> Otherwise,
> 
> I'm really impressed with Grub.  Once the bugs are worked out, I'll
> probably stop using Lilo, which is kind of a pain to use.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> gordon
> 
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