Grub

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 05:02 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
> Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> >   
>     Hi Marko, your English is perfect. I just did something that was 
> interesting but I do not understand why. Using Grub I put it in the MBR 
> of the Slave hard drive (hd1) and removed the Master hard drive (hd0) 
> and rebooted. The system booted with just one hard drive but it wrote 
> this on the screen:
> 
> Booting F7
> 
> Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS
> 
> Press any key
> 
>     I have no idea why this was printed but it does indicate some 
> maximum has been exceeded in BIOS.
> 

Sure you do, if you've been following any of the threads you started on
this topic.  It's what the "BIOS freaks" have been trying to tell you
all along...

>     I should get a bare bones new computer this week from TigerTronics 
> which will have I hope a much newer BIOS that knows about 1 terribyte 
> hard drives :-)
> 
>     This might fix Grub.

It won't change grub at all.  But it will probably solve your
problem--not just because it "knows about" one-terabyte drives, but
because it can read past cylinder 1024 on them.

> 
> 
> 
-- 
                Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs