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

[Sven LUTHER]

On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 03:50:43PM +0100, Jochen Hoenicke wrote:
> On Nov 10, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> > Ok, here is more data, ...
> > 
> > First, i was using grub 0.5.95, downloaded the newer version today 
> > (0.5.96.1)
> > will see if it changes anything.
> > 
> > The exact message is :
> > 
> > Error: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by bios.
> > 
> > some more info is as follows :
> > 
> > when in the grub boot menu, before launching linux, i do a geometry (hd0) :
> > 
> > driver 0x80 : C/H/S = 1024/16/63, sectors = 1032192, LBA
> >                       ^^^^^^^^^^
> >                   Wrong, ...
> 
> As long as GRUB is using LBA, the C/H/S information is completely
> ignored.  C is always 1024 or less, except in grub shell, and this is
> a limitation of the old bios interface.
> 
> What is wrong is the total number of sectors.  Your bios doesn't
> provide it, so grub has to calculate it from C/H/S.
> 
> In grub-0.5.96.1 the total number of sectors is also ignored, so it
> should work.

Yes, i upgraded, and it worked, ...

Sorry for the false alarm ...

But, is it possible that apt-get upgraded grub without me noticing, and that a
later setup from me installed a mismatched grub, since i didn't copy the grub
stuff to /boot/grub ?

Also, how do i enable the french keyboard under the grub boot shell ?

should i redefine it using the key mapping stuff for each key, or is an easier
way of doing this ?

Friendly,

Sven Luther