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

[Sven LUTHER]

On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 12:30:12AM +0900, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote:
> From: Sven LUTHER <address@hidden>
> Subject: Bug#76478: Grub will not believe that my bios can read beyond 512Mb.
> Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 13:29:21 +0100
> 
> > 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, ...
> 
>   No, it is correct. The C/H/S values printed by the command
> "geometry" are the C/H/S returned by the standard BIOS call (INT 13,
> AH=08h) instead of the LBA BIOS call (INT 13, AH=48h), because C/H/S
> values are meaningful only in the standard C/H/S BIOS. They exist only
> for compatibility.
> 
>   What is really wrong is the number of sectors. It seems that your
> BIOS doesn't return the total number of sectors correctly (i.e. your
> BIOS is very buggy). So GRUB computed it by C/H/S instead. I think
> upgrading GRUB to 0.5.96.1 will solve this problem, but not
> completely.
> 
>   If you want to solve the problem perfectly, ask the vendor of your
> mainboard to fix the bug (this is desirable), or upgrade GRUB to the
> current CVS version.

Erm, ...

i don't hink this is a mainboard related bug, since it worked fine, until i
did some copying of my disk to another disk. And even then, the grub on the
new disk worked fine, but the grub on the old disk didn't .

Anyway, grub 0.5.96.1 solved this,

Thanks for the help,

Friendly,

Sven Luther