From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1Pa88z-00073V-Oe for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Jan 2011 09:45:49 -0500 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=55885 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pa88x-00071v-Ei for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Jan 2011 09:45:48 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pa88u-0006uf-Pq for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Jan 2011 09:45:47 -0500 Received: from mail-ww0-f49.google.com ([74.125.82.49]:38969) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pa88u-0006uM-FF for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Jan 2011 09:45:44 -0500 Received: by wwb17 with SMTP id 17so14900293wwb.30 for ; Tue, 04 Jan 2011 06:45:43 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :x-enigmail-version:content-type; bh=YHppxMk+4IYhYQUHEPC0xFeiE6QHaZwBgeyRKQTiRqM=; b=BlumrU42X22SSp8xGiOqRjPzJH8dpcBtMaeCOYxnK0m7iG/rvNaRIcXy6nTI7ZZGX0 NrDrpxKxK0MEc5TYEgYR+Azbq764JidLF1VTOszqj3yVNIGRIj1DurYqqDhjSLKf7Sdj L0jdZRsGfLCbBW3LvhQ77lAXgII9FE6Xf/7P4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type; b=Xr/Z7xtawIfCodSSQ2H8NO7gsb+TulaNcBIP/7kcALPMkkvUOZ3eNa5oeer2mApYLl hUJg2tjiB3m8A3leZoKpXLTOj/9Mvwxc7VF09MZle5qKcuqoxnHw9x7G3gnkap7birgy Sqd4GlcKreuWPRJ5qdtqD4gWS8kpK838ZGaJc= Received: by 10.216.160.84 with SMTP id t62mr16730131wek.69.1294152343311; Tue, 04 Jan 2011 06:45:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from debian.bg45.phnet (102-33.62-81.cust.bluewin.ch [81.62.33.102]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id t11sm9987528wes.17.2011.01.04.06.45.40 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 04 Jan 2011 06:45:41 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4D233293.4030309@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2011 15:45:39 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?B?VmxhZGltaXIgJ8+GLWNvZGVyL3BoY29kZXInIFNlcmJpbmVua28=?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20101226 Icedove/3.0.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andreas Born References: <20100907234220.54cf8040@gmail.com> <4C87AB87.2070508@googlemail.com> <20100908154603.GN21862@riva.ucam.org> <4C87BA4D.4070807@googlemail.com> <4D1657E8.40202@gmail.com> <4D1886EB.8060707@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: <4D1886EB.8060707@googlemail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig534A6712F88D4B816C53EC6A" X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Cc: grub-devel@gnu.org Subject: Re: GRUB2 fails when booting from CD X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2011 14:45:48 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig534A6712F88D4B816C53EC6A Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 12/27/2010 01:30 PM, Andreas Born wrote: > Ok, here you go. I created the same iso image I referred to earlier in > this thread with grub 1.98 and cdfailinf/cdfailwa patch applied. > > cdfailinf (broken machine): 0 0 0 > cdfailinf (working machine): 0 0 9f > Jusging from this output a smaller workaround is enough for your machine. However I committed cdfailwa as it will probably workaround some more BIOSes with similar problem. Thanks for reporting and testing. > cdfailwa brings up the menu on the broken machine and on another > working machine, where I tested it too. > > Hope that helps. > > Regards, > Andreas > > > Am 25.12.2010 21:45, schrieb Vladimir '=CF=86-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko= : >> On 09/08/2010 06:31 PM, Andreas Born wrote: >> =20 >>> Am 08.09.2010 17:46, schrieb Colin Watson: >>> =20 >>>> On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 05:28:07PM +0200, Andreas Born wrote: >>>> >>>> =20 >>>>> - Starting Grub2 fails on my pretty new desktop (the only such >>>>> report >>>>> as far as I'm concerned) >>>>> >>>>> =20 >>>> Fails how? >>>> >>>> =20 >>> After selecting to boot from cdrom in the bios it outputs the >>> following: >>> Welcome to GRUB! >>> >>> error: hd111 cannot get C/H/S values. >>> Enetering rescue mode... >>> grub rescue> >>> >>> Then I'm at the rescue prompt. >>> >>> =20 >> Looks like your BIOS has problems with cd drive. I attach 2 patches. O= ne >> to try to gather more info for better workaround and another one to >> basically ignore cdinfo altogether. Could you test them? >> =20 >>> The problem is reproducible with SalixLive or a minimal image I've >>> created for testing purpose, but so far only on that one machine of >>> mine. You can acquire the latter here: >>> http://gaia.homelinux.org/misc/grub-test.iso (4.3M) >>> >>> I've experimented a bit with ls on the rescue prompt here's the outpu= t: >>> =20 >>>> ls >>>> =20 >>> (hd0) >>> =20 >>>> ls (hd0) >>>> =20 >>> error: unknown filesystem >>> >>> If you need anything else, just let me know and I'll try to do my bes= t >>> to help you. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Andreas >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Grub-devel mailing list >>> Grub-devel@gnu.org >>> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel >>> >>> =20 >> >> =20 > > --=20 Regards Vladimir '=CF=86-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko --------------enig534A6712F88D4B816C53EC6A Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iF4EAREKAAYFAk0jMpMACgkQNak7dOguQgmCYwEAvV/Lh7NvzrTJVan7NWdO6wnW heKcPuedfF1upDulSAYA/jbdWAh15eMZQe29HvR6h17vWgLVoIJ2B/5yXuSEvEVn =wOQH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig534A6712F88D4B816C53EC6A--