Re: Hitting cylinder limit with GRUB

[Yoshinori K. Okuji]

At 29 Dec 2002 18:28:32 -0500,
Glenn Becker wrote:
> Linux boots fine now from GRUB, I have the 'menu.lst' file in the right
> place, but GRUB seems unable to deal with anything above the 'cylinder
> limit' (it's not specifying but I assume the 1024 cylinder limit). I've
> been booting things from above there for over a year using LILO. I tried
> re-installing GRUB using grub-install --force-lba. Same result.

What does the command "geometry" say? Please run the command with your
drive specified (i.e. "geometry (hd0)") in the native environment (not
the grub shell)? Maybe you need to have a GRUB boot floppy to test it.

Also, recheck your BIOS setting. If your BIOS really supports LBA, it
should have a setting about your drive.

Okuji