Hello. Here is a workaround for buggy BIOSes not supplying C/H/S geometry
--
Regards
Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index f5bc28b..8ce8496 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,12 +1,5 @@
2009-05-17 Vladimir Serbinenko
- Not fail if unable to retrieve C/H/S on LBA disks
-
- * disk/i386/pc/biosdisk.c (grub_biosdisk_open): behave gracefully
- if unable to retrieve C/H/S on LBA disks
-
-2009-05-17 Vladimir Serbinenko
-
Remove -Werror which causes build to fail on some systems
* conf/i386-pc.rmk (xnu_mod_CFLAGS): Remove -Werror -Wall
diff --git a/disk/i386/pc/biosdisk.c b/disk/i386/pc/biosdisk.c
index f966330..ba1eb77 100644
--- a/disk/i386/pc/biosdisk.c
+++ b/disk/i386/pc/biosdisk.c
@@ -158,20 +158,8 @@ grub_biosdisk_open (const char *name, grub_disk_t disk)
&data->heads,
&data->sectors) != 0)
{
- if (total_sectors && (data->flags & GRUB_BIOSDISK_FLAG_LBA))
- {
- data->sectors = 63;
- data->heads = 255;
- data->cylinders
- = grub_divmod64 (total_sectors
- + data->heads * data->sectors - 1,
- data->heads * data->sectors, 0);
- }
- else
- {
- grub_free (data);
- return grub_error (GRUB_ERR_BAD_DEVICE, "cannot get C/H/S values");
- }
+ grub_free (data);
+ return grub_error (GRUB_ERR_BAD_DEVICE, "cannot get C/H/S values");
}
if (! total_sectors)
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