Re: Bug in GRUB 0.97 (Ubuntu 6.10)

[Andrew Jeffries]

adrian15 wrote:
> 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.

But it works fine with LILO.  While I appreciate you may be saying that 
the underlying problem rests with the BIOS manufacturer, LILO manages to 
work around and I would have thought GRUB could do likewise (and given 
that I prefer GRUB, I'd like it to ;-))

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

Unfortunately I only have a Vista licence.

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

Nope, the same parameters are used.

Cheers,



Andy

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