Date: Sat, 22 May 2021 16:56:30 +0000
From: Moritz Strohm <ncc1988@posteo.de>
To: ~alpine/users@lists.alpinelinux.org
Subject: Re: Cannot boot from hard drive on a Pentium1 system
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> If you can boot apine from a usb, maybe you could configure it to boot
> your hard disk install as a workaround until fixing this.

No, that is not possible since the BIOS doesn't really support USB at all.


I tried to install Grub2 again, since Grub2 did at least boot, contrary to
syslinux/extlinux that didn't show any sign of booting at all (see above).

grub-mkconfig detected the vmlinuz-image and the ramdisk, so I assume it
generated a correct configuration file in /boot/grub/grub.cfg. Then, I called
grub-install like this:

grub-install --target=i386-pc --modules="boot ext2 elf vga vga_text msdospart configfile fat echo normal linux" /dev/sda

The installation reported no errors and after a reboot, I landed in the normal
grub mode, not the rescue mode, but grub2 still could not load the content of
the boot partition, which has an ext4 file system, set up by the alpine linux
installer. Event after manually loading the ext2 module in grub using
"insmod ext2", the content of the partitions cannot be read by grub.

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