Re: Bug in GRUB 0.97 (Ubuntu 6.10)

[adrian15]

Andrew Jeffries escribió:
> There's a bug in GRUB 0.97 on Intel 965 Chipsets, the DVD drive doesn't 
> work if booting from GRUB from the hard drive in either Windows Vista or 
> Ubuntu Linux.
>
> If I replace GRUB with LILO it works perfectly.

1) But that's nonsense. The only reason that I see that Grub disables a 
cdrom is that the bios uses an standard interrupt for disabling the DVD 
drive... so it is not a grub problem.


2) If you use XP (not vista) and Ubuntu that the same problem persists ?

3) Cannot it be that grub kernel parametres are not ok and lilo kernel 
parametres are ok?



adrian15

> I've posted a howto replace GRUB with LILO in a forum (to get people 
> round it), but I'd much rather it was fixed in GRUB.
>
> http://www.rockforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=10315
> (if you search that forum you'll see a lot of other reports of the same 
> problem)
When you say:
22 ) Reboot and test, you should be able to now reboot between Windows 
Vista and Linux, with both having working network connections (you don't 
get this if you turn acpi=off in your GRUB menu.lst) and working DVD 
drives (you don't get this if you DON'T have acpi=off in your GRUB 
menu.lst).

Any questions or problems, let me know.

Does it mean that editing menu.lst by the means of remoing acpi=off 
everything works ok?

> If you need me to send you any debugging information or try an 
> experimental version to see if you've fixed it, let me know.

If you boot from Super Grub Disk cdrom... (Linux -> Boot Linux)  (use 
0.9536 version please) can you then use the DVD?

> Cheers,
>
>
> Andy

adrian15