Bug#76478: Grub will not believe that my bios can read beyond 512Mb.

[Sven LUTHER]

On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 11:11:51AM +0100, Jochen Hoenicke wrote:
> On Nov 7, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> > Package: grub
> > Version: 0.5.96.1
> > 
> > I reflashed the bios with the latest version from iwill, but still,
> > grub don't want to look past the 512Kb barrier. The strange thing is
> > that MBR has no problem booting from partition 2 and 3 so right now
> > i have a grub floppy for the reiserfs partition, and use mbr+lilo
> > for the other two.
> 
> Many BIOSes implement the LBA extension to read past 1024 cylinders,
> but don't set a flag that they support this extension.  You can tell
> GRUB to ignore the flag and use the LBA extension anyway: Just install
> it with "--force-lba" flag on the setup/install command line.

Yes, but it did work at first and then no more. I did try it with the
--force-lba option though, as well as read all the doc available to me,
without luck.

Friendly,

sven Luther