On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 05:00:18PM +0900, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote:
maximum supported by BIOS". Although the help for the `geometry' command
would indicate that I could force it to recognize those extra cylinders,
executing `geometry (hd0) 1869 255 63' doesn't work, either.
Don't do that!
Package: grub
Severity: normal
Version: 0.5.94
On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 05:00:18PM +0900, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote:
I can access the whole drive after booting, both from Linux and from
Windows. I'm guessing something might have changed, but what? Can anyone
give me a hint where to look for
From: Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: a LBA-related problem and a few docs patches
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 10:37:45 +0200
Perhaps. The output of `help geometry' doesn't indicate so.
Don't rely on the online help very much. It can help you only to
remind yourself of something.
GRUB
On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 08:04:14PM +0900, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote:
Perhaps. The output of `help geometry' doesn't indicate so.
Don't rely on the online help very much. It can help you only to
remind yourself of something.
When you're stuck without access to your partition where the real
On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 08:15:49PM +0900, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote:
This seems to be a change in behaviour, and gratuitous one, too, because it
worked before. Therefore I'm filing this as a bug to the Debian BTS. One
could argue that it's of higher severity, because it effectively made my
From: Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: a LBA-related problem and a few docs patches
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 13:45:28 +0200
I didn't say it isn't related to kernels. It is however more related to
disks than to kernels.
Completely disagreed. When we talk about a disk, it is relevant
On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 04:51:22AM +0900, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote:
changing to some other term would be better? For example "Booting"?
That sounds a bit more reasonable than "Disk management". But what
should we do about mbchk? The utility clearly belongs to the "Kernel"
section, but it is
Hi people,
As of two days ago, GRUB in the MBR of my hard drive won't load anything
over 1024th cylinder. That day I booted, replaced the linux kernel image
with a new copy, rebooted and poof, it halted. Didn't even display an error
message. After using a rescue disk, and reinstalling grub into
