Le 06/05/2017 à 10:35, Joe a écrit :
Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> wrote:You can check the sizes of the disk and the partition as viewed by GRUB with the following commands : ls (hd0) ls (hd0,1)The netbook is about seven years old, but the laptop is a two-year-old HP running Windows 8. Its hard drive is 500GB of which the Win partition is about 400GB. The USB hard drive is physically 120GB, with the single Linux partition being physically the first at just over 10GB.
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I don't think it is a BIOS issue
Indeed with such disk and partition sizes, it is unlikely that the issue is caused by a BIOS limitation, even on a 7-year old PC.
However, the ls command I suggested may still be useful to check GRUB's idea of the sizes.