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Re: geometry output / floppy chainloading from El Torrito
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From: |
Yoshinori K. Okuji |
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Re: geometry output / floppy chainloading from El Torrito |
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Date: |
Wed, 15 Jan 2003 20:07:59 +0900 |
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At Sat, 11 Jan 2003 00:39:26 +0100,
Thierry Laronde wrote:
> This always succeeds with me. IIRC, such a strange behavior (hiatus
> between chainloader (device)+1 and root (device); chainloader +1 appeared
> with 0.92.
>
> There is something to be fixed.
Nothing needs to be fixed. That behavior has been the same since the
very beginning of GRUB.
That's good, because you can chainload another boot loader in a
flexible way. For example, suppose that you have saved a boot loader
in a file and put the file on a floppy (e.g. "dd if=/dev/hdb
of=/mnt/floppy/hdb.mbr bs=512 count=1"). Then, you can chainload it,
even if the MBR is broken, by "chainloader (fd0)/hdb.mbr" and setting
the root drive appropriately (i.e. "root (hd1)").
Okuji