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