Re: stage1_lba trouble

1999-08-11 Thread Mark Lundeberg
On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote: Really? LBA should allow to access 2TB. My manual says there is a 1024 cyl max. Not 65536, which you must be thinking of. My bios is from around 1995 (I think). It is an Award Software bios. I wouldn't be suprised if it's the bios' fault.

Re: stage1_lba trouble

1999-08-11 Thread OKUJI Yoshinori
From: Mark Lundeberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: stage1_lba trouble Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 00:43:14 -0700 (PDT) My manual says there is a 1024 cyl max. Not 65536, which you must be thinking of. You misunderstood something. LBA does not use CHS information but uses linear addresses. So

Re: NetBSD and OpenBSD partition ids are supported

1999-08-11 Thread Albert P. Garcia
On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, A. P. Garcia wrote: I'm sorry if I'm missing this someplace: is type a5 currently supported? Never mind. Just me being impatient again. It's been a few weeks since I first installed grub. I remembered how to do this from when I set up NetBSD with grub. I thought you

Re: stage1_lba trouble

1999-08-11 Thread Mark Lundeberg
On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote: You misunderstood something. LBA does not use CHS information but uses linear addresses. So GRUB does not depend on what number of cylinders is reported. In LBA mode, CHS information is used just for compatibility with some OSes, such as DOS.