On Tue, Nov 02 1999, Erich Boleyn wrote:
>
> Goran Koruga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> ...
> > Yes it does - I think I know where the problem is. I already had problems
> > when I hosed my partition table by creating new partitions with Linux's
> > fdisk because the geometry is incorrect (or rather different than the
> > one used when creating the very first partition).
> > I noticed that grub 0.5.94 has a 'geometry' command and I will try to
> > play with it. I hope I will get it working.
> > I think all of this is my fault because I didn't turn off the BIOS on my
> > SCSI controller (I needed it a year ago when I still used DOS).
>
> Uhh, how could GRUB's notion of the geometry of a hard disk screw things
> up? The standard hard disk BIOS calls are very reliable.
I said "I think..." because I am not sure. I wouldn't be asking about it
here if I were sure. I will see if using different disk geometry will help me.
>
> It also never checks the partition table's geometry numbers, it just uses
> linear block addressing.
Yes, I noticed that in sources. I'm sure those are correct in my partition
table so I am even more curious as to why GRUB doesn't work. Anyway, I will
send my results to the mailing list (it might help somebody else).
>
> --
> Erich Stefan Boleyn \_ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Thanks, Goran
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