Re: Status of Debian developers?
From: Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
Subject: Re: Status of Debian developers?
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 13:02:19 +0200
> I had to switch to LBA mode in BIOS to boot off the third partition
> (strarting at the half of the disk).
That's right. You should use LBA mode if possible.
> Interestingly, GRUB could detect the first two partition nicely, and gave
> "Geometry error" only when I tried to list the third partition:
>
> hd1,0: Linux Swap partition
> hd1,1: Ext2 filesystem
> hd1,2:
> Disk Geometry Error
>
> I understand that this is BIOS limitation... well, thats x86 for you.
No, this is because LBA support in GRUB is somewhat imcomplete. I'll
fix it. Anyway, thanks for your report.
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