Re: Pentium II boot failure

[Hollis Blanchard]

On Jan 3, 2005, at 7:17 AM, Vincent Pelletier wrote:

> Marco Gerards a écrit :
> > Hollis Blanchard <address@hidden> writes:
> > > I pulled a Pentium II out of the closet for testing, but 
> > > unfortunately
> > > even stock CVS failed to boot to the GRUB prompt. I did a build, then
> > >         ./grub-mkimage -d . -o image *.mod
> > >         dd if=image of=/dev/fd0
> > >         reboot
> > > That should work, right? This system just hangs with nothing on the
> > > screen except for the last BIOS messages, and the floppy light goes
> > > off. The same thing happens when I use kernel.img without adding
> > > modules.
> > This sounds like a problem Vincent has.  Anyway, it does not matter
> > that much.  At least it compiles, I can test if it also works.
>
> Actually, the problem I had was that grub2 gives that error during 
> stage 1 :
> GRUB Read Error
> and is because an asm instruction was removed in stage 1 which was a
> workaround for buggy BIOSes like mine.
>
> Does your computer works with grub legacy ? there are not much changes
> between legacy's stage 1 and grub 2's one.

GRUB Legacy, i.e. ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-0.95-i386-pc.ext2fs 
, does boot. It could be a problem with my compiler I guess... it's a 
stock Debian compiler though.

-Hollis