unending stage2--reboot cycle

[JT Williams]

Hello,

I am trying to use grub to `boot' plain DOS 5.0 on an old 386
notebook, FAT12, 80MB drive, 6MB ram.  I am using the pre-built
archive `grub-0.92-i386-pc.tar.gz'.

Per the documentation, I used Norton Utilities to copy stage1 and
stage2 to the initial sectors of a 1.44Mb floppy disk.  When I boot
the machine using the floppy, the boot process starts normally,
and I do not get any error messages.

Then the message "Loading stage2..." appears and I watch the
progression of dots at the end of the message.  A few seconds
later, however, the pc reboots itself and the whole process
starts again.  "Loading stage2..."  appears again, and the
machine reboots again.  And again.  And again.

Any ideas?

jt williams