Re: [PATCH] Create floppy emulation boot CD with grub-mkimage

[Christian Franke <Christian.Franke@t-online.de>]

Robert Millan wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 11:03:07PM +0100, Christian Franke wrote:
>   
>> Yes, all of my boot CDs work :-)
>>
>> Meantime, I found the problem: cdboot.img was > 512 bytes. I forgot to 
>> add the ld script necessary for the Cygwin build (-N does not work). 
>> Should have checked this first, sorry.
>>     
>
> Is this a remaining patch that was needed for Cygwin?
>
>   

This it is a small update to the "[PATCH] Build on Cygwin" posted here 
2007-11-23, no feedback yet.


>> Now the CD boots, but the result is interesting:
>>
>> Real PC: escape to rescue mode, root=hd31, no (cd0) device, no modules.
>>
>> VMWare: same.
>>
>> VirtualPC: escape to rescue mode, root=cd15, (cd0) exists, normal mode 
>> can be started manually.
>>
>> VirtualBox: Works as expected.
>>     
>
> Interesting, yes.  But no idea what it means :-(
>
>   

I will investigate this further ...

Christian