Re: [ot] <rant>grub is great!</rant> (was Re: woody Debian Installer plans)
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 07:58:50AM -0700, ferret@phonewave.net wrote:
> One thing grub appears to be unable to do as well is compensate for a
> broken BIOS.. But except for fixing the BIOS, what can? I have a
> SCSI-based DEC server with an 8GB limited SCSI BIOS, and I didn't know it
> until I attempted to upgrade the hard drive.
>
> grub was able to show me what the problem was (BIOS 'geomerty' was
> completely screwed up) but was unable to boot to the drive even from
> floppy. :/
Did you try install with the --force-lba parameter? It helped me.
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