Re: Pentium II boot failure

[Vincent Pelletier <subdino2004@yahoo.fr>]

Marco Gerards a écrit :
> Hollis Blanchard <hollis@penguinppc.org> writes:
> 
> 
>>I pulled a Pentium II out of the closet for testing, but unfortunately
>>even stock CVS failed to boot to the GRUB prompt. I did a build, then
>>	./grub-mkimage -d . -o image *.mod
>>	dd if=image of=/dev/fd0
>>	reboot
>>That should work, right? This system just hangs with nothing on the
>>screen except for the last BIOS messages, and the floppy light goes
>>off. The same thing happens when I use kernel.img without adding
>>modules.
> 
> 
> This sounds like a problem Vincent has.  Anyway, it does not matter
> that much.  At least it compiles, I can test if it also works.


Actually, the problem I had was that grub2 gives that error during stage 1 :
GRUB Read Error
and is because an asm instruction was removed in stage 1 which was a
workaround for buggy BIOSes like mine.

Does your computer works with grub legacy ? there are not much changes
between legacy's stage 1 and grub 2's one.

Vincent Pelletier