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Re: Error 21 with grub > 0.92 and Highpoint HPT370
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Georg Sauthoff |
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Re: Error 21 with grub > 0.92 and Highpoint HPT370 |
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Mon, 1 Mar 2004 21:39:00 +0100 |
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On Saturday 28 February 2004 21:12, Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
Hi,
> Your problem seems to be the same as bug number 6846
> (https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=6846). If I
Yes.
> look at the changes between 0.92 and 0.93 I think the only change
> which can give these problems is this one:
>
> 2002-04-04 Yoshinori K. Okuji <address@hidden>
>
> * stage2/builtins.c (setup_func): Don't embed a drive number, if
> unnecessary.
> Looking at the code I see that the older code is still there but not
> used. The comments say the older code was needed because of some
> buggy BIOSes, but with other buggy BIOSes it could trash the booting
> drive. Maybe we should switch back to the older code or add a
> --workaround argument to setup so if you get this error you can use
> setup --workaround to install this workaround.
> For now, if you change the "#if 1" into "#if 0" in the function
> setup_func in grub/stage/builtins.c, does the problem go away?
Yes, but it still doesn't boot ;(.
If I change grub/stage2/builtins.c this way, grub reboots the pc immediately
after loading stage1.5.
My steps to load grub in the mbr:
# grub
embed /path/to/fs_stage1_5 (hd0)
install /path/to/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+i /path/to/stage2 /path/to/menu.lst
Regards
Georg Sauthoff
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