Bug 158072

Summary:	can't boot floppy from Grub menu
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1	Reporter:	Ladislav Michnovic <lmichnovic>
Component:	Basesystem	Assignee:	Torsten Duwe <duwe>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Siegfried Olschner <siegfried.olschner>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	suse-beta
Version:	Beta 7
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Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Description Ladislav Michnovic 2006-03-14 20:06:57 UTC

I have in GRUB booting menu option floppy. It was created automaticly by the installation. When I choose this option in menu, it started the reading the floppy diskette and writes:
chainloader (fd0)+1
Boot failed .
If I change the boot priority in BIOS to floppy, it boot-ups from the same diskette without any problems.

Comment 1 Siegfried Olschner 2006-04-11 10:15:35 UTC

Hm, seems to be a problem for Torsten ... ?

Comment 2 Torsten Duwe 2006-04-18 12:58:53 UTC

Indeed. Is this reproducible in qemu?
What are the contents of the floppy?
I hope hwinfo isn't needed.

Comment 3 Ladislav Michnovic 2006-04-19 12:18:38 UTC

I never used qemu. But i tried it on 3 different computers with the same result. 
The content of floppy: memtest, 1 diskette live linux, ms dos.

Comment 4 Torsten Duwe 2006-04-19 14:02:47 UTC

You're correct. DX doesn't seem to get passed correctly.

rootnoverify (fd0)
chainloader +1

however works.

Comment 5 Torsten Duwe 2006-04-20 17:41:03 UTC

Fixed.