> So how come that on my brand new system this appears to be an issue? I > use a SATA controller and I am convinced that there isn't a single > native SATA drive of less than 8G capacity. I agree one would hope on a new system it wouldn't be an issue. > Also, my first partition is for XP and 30G, so if 8G is the magic limit > then how come that GRUB booted fine several times with that setup? > Again, I am very sure that I am not victim of any BIOS limitations, but > that GRUB does one thing five times in a row as expected and just > doesn't do it a sixth time around for reasons unknown. Do you change anything (updates etc.) between the 5th and 6th boots ? If not, this is starting to sound like flaky hardware to me... If you do, then what - If it is anything to do with grub/kernels I still maintain it sounds like you have part of your filesystems that are needed by grub, written to a part of your system grub cannot reach for whatever reason. Chris
