Re: Always falling to grub prompt

["Mumia W.." <paduille.4061.mumia.w+nospam@earthlink.net>]

On 09/09/2007 03:02 PM, Victor Munoz wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 11:00:24AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > [...]
>
> So your suggestion would be to repartition the disk, leaving a small
> boot partition at the beginning of the 160G disk?
>
> Anyway, the motherboard is not new.
>
> lspci -v:
>
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333]
>         Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. A7V266-E Mainboard
>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
>         Memory at fc000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
>         Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 2.0
>         Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
>
> Probably 6 years old? (I bought it used, in 2003)
>
> Victor

Yes, create a small (~1GB) /boot partition at the head of the 160GB 
disk. I always had to do that with my old 486 computer because its BIOS 
was restricted by the 1024-cylinder limit.