RE: 0.93 vs. 0.92?! :-o

[Treutwein Bernhard]

Hi,

although I don't know if that helps you, I had several times problems which
are a bit similar to yours. I found the following workaround (check the
Grub Manual (Sec. 13.3.18 install) for details of the "d" flag.

setup (hd0) tells you the commands, which it executes, especially the
install. 
Type the install command exactly as it is given by setup (hd0) but add the
"d"
flag in the correct position.

This helped me with several machines with buggy Phoenix Bioses. I don't know
about your configuration. I also have the impression that it worked without
retyping the stuff some time ago (earlier versions of Grub, but don't ask
me which, I had them from the cvs).

regards
--
        Bernhard Treutwein, IuK, Ref. III A 3
        Bernhard.Treutwein(at)verwaltung uni-muenchen de

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vizitiu, Ciprian [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 1:05 AM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: 0.93 vs. 0.92?! :-o
> 
> 
> 
>       Hi listers.
> 
>       Can anybody give me a reason for which a 0.93 grub shell will
> not set-up correctly a 0.92 /boot/grub? On a xSeries IBM (IBM PCI
> ServeRAID SCSI and a 37GB SCSI disk ) I restore a full 
> back-up that has
> grub 0.92 in it. At the end of course I have to restore also grub. If
> the grub used to perform the restore operation is 0.93 it 
> won't boot. I
> mean it won't get to stage2 (I guess...) as I can't see the 
> menu, it is
> "frozen" not even CTRL-ALT-DEL. It turned out after many painful hours
> that I have to use 0.92 to do the "restore"... So: either 
> there is a bug
> in 0.93 that prevents correct operation with the ServeRAID controller
> BIOS or 0.93 can not be used to restore a 0.92? Before you ask, yes,
> I've disabled from BIOS "INT 13 extensions" and "over 2GB support";
> separately or in the same time. Before and after setup (hd0). 
> No good. 
> 
>       Heck I've even did fdisk /mbr and then setup (hd0,0) assuming
> that M$ loader will do better. No good.  
> 
>       Anybody with a hint? Any help/ideas will be greatly appreciated;
> ask for specific information I don't know what to chose...
> 
> 
>