RE: Hmm. GRUB doesn't seem to work...

> > install=(fd0)+1 d (hd0) (hd0,2)/boot/grub/stage2 0x8000 p
> >
> > or any number of variants of it, I get nothing. It looks like
> > it's not even getting to stage1, because I hacked it to beep the
>
> You need to put a clean stage1 file somewhere and install from that. Do
> something like
>
> install=(hd0,2)/boot/stage1 d (hd0) ...
>
> make sure the file that you use is from the bin directory, not from your
> floppy boot sector as GRUB removes some code from the boot sector when it
> installs a stage1 to it.

I tried this too, but got the same result. The weird thing is that I tried
the first line in a poxy old laptop I have (486 DX2, 8MB memory, 250MB
disk),
and it worked fine!

Hmmm...
Received on Tue Nov 24 19:09:15 1998