[Grub4dos-devel] GRUB4DOS + Ontrack Disk Manager = possible?
Didrik Madheden
laptop, (P100 with 16 MB RAM) and my goal is to set up a multi-boot
system on it. I don't have the HD caddy, so my only way of connecting
a HD to it is with the mini-IDE cable where the CD-ROM was connected.
(In other words, the secondary IDE channel)
My first problem was to make the computer understand that there is a
disk there at all. After a lot of trying I have made this work with
the help of Ontrack Disk Manager. With a patched boot floppy, I can
now boot to DOS and read/write to the disk with normal commands and
also with fdisk.
My next mission is to make the system multiboot, or at least boot one
operating system from the hard drive (With the help of some chain
loader) My first idea was to use the builtin switch /K=2 in ontrack,
which should boot from the secondary master disk. But this called BIOS
again, which ignored the disk and tried to boot from the floppy again.
The next thing I tried was GRUB4DOS. However, GRUB4DOS doesn't seem to
detect the disc that I used Ontrack to activate. I have tried both
chainloader (hd2,0) +1
and
chainloader (hd2,0)/io.sys
followed by makeactive. But I only get the message that the disk was not found.
Partition 0 of the disk is a FAT32 partition with the bootable flag
set and the system copied to it with sys a: c:
Any help or advice would be appreciated. Maybe there's a better way to
activate the secondary IDE channel that works with GRUB4DOS?
/Didrik Madheden
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