Bug 158072 - can't boot floppy from Grub menu
Summary: can't boot floppy from Grub menu
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: SUSE Linux 10.1
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Basesystem (show other bugs)
Version: Beta 7
Hardware: Other Other
: P5 - None : Normal (vote)
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Assignee: Torsten Duwe
QA Contact: Siegfried Olschner
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Reported: 2006-03-14 20:06 UTC by Ladislav Michnovic
Modified: 2006-04-20 17:41 UTC (History)
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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.