RE: 1.6.2 available for early testing

> >Hmm. I still haven't got my grub woes solved. Is there another
> >multiboot compatible boot loader out there?
>
> Nope, I think HURD uses GRUB too. Did you ever find out what
> kind of values your BIOS was returning for the disk geometry?
> If you can recompile GRUB(which I think I remember that you could),
> perhaps you should just patch in
> the right values to see if GRUB can press on from there.
>
> Early on I had thought about adapting the old DOS-based VSTa boot
> loader to do multiboot loading. But GRUB worked too well, and at
> this point I'm not sure I could even dig up my Borland C disks and
> manuals.

The main reason I've not heavily modified GRUB is that it uses gas.
I was thinking of rewriting it in NASM or something like that. Beside
that, I've been really busy.

I might do something over the weekend.
Received on Thu Dec 17 07:08:19 1998