From: Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OKUJI Yoshinori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ^o-o^ http://duff.kuicr.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~okuji (in English) m /
