On 30.03.2011 15:27, Gus Zernial wrote: > I can believe it's a BIOS problem, but ... 120 GB is a "large drive"? > > > Could you try booting from external media and execute "ls -l" It should give you the total size in blocks as seen through BIOS. Also how is this disk accessed? PATA or AHCI? If first you can install GRUB with --disk-module=ata. If second, then you can do the same with --disk-module=ahci but only in experimental. Beware that AHCI in GRUB is alpha-quality right now. > --- On Tue, 3/29/11, Jordan Uggla <jordan.ug...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> From: Jordan Uggla <jordan.ug...@gmail.com> >> Subject: Re: Out of Memory Error >> To: "The development of GNU GRUB" <grub-devel@gnu.org> >> Cc: "Gus Zernial" <gus_zern...@yahoo.com> >> Date: Tuesday, March 29, 2011, 6:00 PM >> 2011/3/29 Gus Zernial <gus_zern...@yahoo.com>: >> >>> Thanks for your reply. First of all, the error is "Out >>> >> of disk", not >> >>> "Out of memory", my bad >>> >> "Out of disk" is a very different error from "Out of >> memory". "Out of >> disk" means that you have a buggy BIOS which can't handle >> large drives >> properly. To work around this create a small /boot/ >> partition near the >> beginning of the drive. >> >> -- >> Jordan Uggla (Jordan_U on irc.freenode.net) >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > >
-- Regards Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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