Re: Couldn't boot from CD on IBM ThinkPad 600X

[Jeff Sheinberg]

Jochen Hoenicke writes:
 > On Mar 30, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote:
 > > From: Anton Safonov <address@hidden>
 > > Subject: Couldn't boot from CD on IBM ThinkPad 600X
 > > Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 14:23:30 +0200
 > > 
 > > > Have found strange problem! I have a bootable CD with GRUB on it and
 > > > trying to boot from it on subject.
 > > > Tried several versions, got:
 > > > 0.5.94: "stage1 "
 > > > 0.5.97: "GRUB Read error"
 > > > 
 > > > What could be the reason?
 > > 
 > > It is likely that the BIOS is buggy. Please try to investigate a
 > > workaround.
 > > 
 > 
 > This reminds me of my booting from ZIP disk problem.  I patched grub
 > to read a fixed geometry from the boot sector, just as DOS does it.
 > The patch didn't get into grub at that time and the boot-sector has
 > changed too much since, so it doesn't apply cleanly.
 > 
 > I have made a new version of that patch, but never really tested it.
 > I uploaded it in the savannah patch manager:
 > 
 >   http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?group_id=68
 > 
 > More information is on the patch page.
        ^^^^^^^^^^^

Please post the patch directly to this list.  The savannah web
interface is not working for me.

Thanks,
-- 
Jeff Sheinberg  <address@hidden>