Moving boot

[Les Mikesell]

Karl Larsen wrote:
>    I'm not going to answer Les because he keeps changing the message to 
> other topics that have nothing to do with this one. The subject is that 
> I have a setup right now on my computer that is IMPOSSIBLE if, the rules 
> for BIOS being thrown around are even close to being correct. I think 
> they are at best too old or just wrong.

There's more than one rule depending on the age and version of your bios 
and possibly the jumpers on your disk.  There is a simple way to satisfy 
all of the rules if you are unwilling to figure out which one you are 
violating.

>    I have right now grub on the MBR of the Master Hard Drive which is 
> (hd0) and the /boot/grub/ that the grub directs BIOS to find is on the 
> second Hard Drive at /dev/sdb6/ which is (hd1,5) in Grub talk. I checked 
> and /boot/grub/ is at least 7,000 cylinders up the second hard drive ;-)
> 
>    So my point to Les and all of you is that BIOS works a whole lot 
> better than everyone seems to think.

Current versions of bios have no problem with current drives.

> It goes all the way to the second 
> hard drive from the first, and then 7,000 cylinders more and starts my 
> system. Every time for years 8-)

Except when it didn't, and gave that message about exceeding a bios 
limit.  Time to explain that...

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com