DoC Grub booting problems

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Tue Oct 14 02:06:47 EDT 2003


On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 15:44 +1000, Michael McLellan wrote:
> I've compiled grub v.0.93 with the lastest MTD patch and it pretty much
> works. But it doesn't detect the DoC until I explicitly tell it its there.

I believe that's intentional; it doesn't go looking for the drive until
it's asked to access it.

> So my question is, how come it doesn't detect the DoC before searching for
> the menu.lst file? So then it will boot without going to the Grub shell.

Don't you have to tell it that the menu.lst file is on (dc0,0) (what do
you use your _other_ partitions for, btw?) to make it look there?

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