Re: boot floppy fails on different machine

[Hans-Christian Armingeon]

Am Sonntag, 19. Mai 2002 13:50 schrieb Peter Baxendale:
> Thanks for the advice.
>
> I did this initially:
> tar xvfz grub-0.92.tar.gz
> cd grub-0.92
> ./configure
> make
> cd stage1
> dd if=stage1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1
> cd ../stage2
> dd if=stage2 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 seek=1
>
> As I said, the 486 hangs with the floppy light on, no messages on the
> screen, whilst the Pentium (my build machine) worked ok.
What messages? Looks like an read error.
Post a few messages please.

> [...]
> This has exactly the same end result - hang with the 486.
>
>
> Maybe as you say it's something to do with binutils. Checking this, it
Well, the binaries on gnu ftp are ok, so your binutils hasn't anything to do 
with it.

> seems I installed them from a  Redhat rpm, so I've no idea what cpu the
> [...]
> I'm confused.
>

Johnny