Re: Faulty BIOS or GRUB issue (USB Stick won't boot)

[Daniel Mierswa]

On 01.10.2009 10:22, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> To simulate brain damage of your BIOS
*shrug* I wonder how you can manage to simulate _that_ severe damage.

> echo '(hd0)  /dev/loop0'>  /boot/grub/device.map
D'oh, didn't think of hardcoding it, I thought GRUB detects it properly.

However, phcoder, there were some crackheads back in January taking some 
time with that matter and I tried almost every hack discussed on the 
net. And out of nothing comes you, applying yet another hack and it just 
seems to work. You're a true hero. :D
However when doing "ls (hd0)" in the GRUB rescue shell that fires up, 
I'm getting "Partition table". I guess this is part of the hack?
Is it possible to apply this workaround in the codebase so that others 
with that broken BIOS (remember I have another MBR file of a guy who 
reported identical behaviour) or is this something that should be left 
to people with broken BIOS?
All in all, thank you very much, now that I have a rescue shell, I can 
start playing.

--
Mierswa, Daniel

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