Bios freaks

[Jeffrey Ross]

Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-08-18 at 16:49 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
>   
>> I have heard about enough about what my 1994 bios might or might not 
>> be doing to Grub. I WAS surprised when the bios showed correct that I do 
>> have two hard drives, one a Master the other a Slave and both having 
>> 160GB written just like that in the bios. It is old but it is working 
>> fine. You want to blame the problems we are having on our bios.
>>
>>     My FC6 where grub still works fine is using the exact same bios! 8-)
>>     
>
> But maybe in the FC6 installation, your grub and kernel are in a place
> on the disk where they can be read by the BIOS, and in your F7
> installation, they're not.  
>
> You've got the exact same BIOS and the exact same GRUB in FC6 and F7.
> Several people have pointed out a potential issue that you might arise
> in those conditions that you haven't controlled for.  Why not do the
> obvious experiment and prove them wrong beyond the shadow of a doubt.
> That'll shut 'em up.
>
>
>   
if the BIOS is the problem where it can't read past a certain point of 
the disk at boot time.  Couldn't you simply create a /boot partition and 
put it in an area that the BIOS can handle?  the beginning of the disk 
(?)??