RE: Problems creating GRUB Floppy

[Treutwein; Bernhard]

Okujisan,

sorry to have bothered you and thanks for your help.

The cause were awfull BIOS settings in a Phoenix 4.06 BIOS. 
The PC has a build in IDE-Zip, which was mapped to (fd0) by 
the BIOS, the standard 3.25 floppy was mapped to (fd1). 

GRUB in turn was unable to discover that. 

The BIOS settings for boot options are somewhat cryptic and it 
was not that easy to change it to standard floppy (fd0), ZIP (fd1).

After having done so, everything works fine.

I was able to find that out by entering the commandline mode
of GRUB 0.5.96.1 installed by COL 3.1 on the hard disk. It told
me that (fd0) had a disk error but (fd1) was ok. 
chainloading to (fd1) resulted in a hard (?) reboot.

I did not know that BIOS remapping is not only done for hard
disks, but also for floppy/ZIP/LS120 drives. Maybe a word
of caution is appropriate for the Grub-Manual.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yoshinori K. Okuji [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 11:48 AM
> To: Treutwein; Bernhard
> Cc: Yoshinori K. Okuji
> Subject: Re: Problems creating GRUB Floppy
> 
> 
> At Thu, 28 Feb 2002 11:37:19 +0100,
> Treutwein; Bernhard 
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > shure, but I don't know how.
> > 
> > What can I do to track down the problem ?
> 
> First of all, try a compilation from scratch. Sometimes the make
> program is confused, and it doesn't produce correct binary
> files. Also, it would be a Good Thing to check if your floppy is just
> broken.
> 
> If these have no effect, your build tools (such as GCC) might be a
> cause.
> 
> Thanks,
> Okuji
>