Re: Grub issues on Mac Mini?

[Jerome BENOIT <jgmbenoit@mailsnare.net>]

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Jerome

Charles Turner wrote:
> Hi all-
>
> I have a new Core 2 Duo Mac Mini, and have been trying to install 
> Debian Lenny on an external FireWire disk via the i386 netinst CD of 
> 01sept2007.
>
> I waded through the older install documentation around the web that 
> seems geared to earlier machines, have what I think is a satisfactory 
> disk partition (ie MBR), but now I'm hung at boot with Grub giving me a 
> "Hard Disk Error". My reading of this error is that it involves a disk 
> geometry problem.
>
> I've now checked the geometry prior to installing Grub via netinst and 
> sfdisk reports:
>
> Kernel's idea (-g): 28615 64 32
> Disk geometry (-G): 3648 255 63
>
> After grub's installed, the "geometry" command:
>
> geometry (hd1)
>
> returns 3648 255 63, but I still get my "Hard Disk Error" on boot.
>
> Any thoughts on how to resolve this? I'd be happy to supply more info; 
> I know I've been brief here...
>
> Thanks! Charles Turner

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