Les Mikesell wrote:
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...
See what I mean? Les introduced the line above which has NOTHING to
do with what I wrote above that line.
So from this point onward I will neither answer or read any more of
his email on this list. I think he is trying to "get me" and it worked.
Goodbye Les.
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Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
Linux User
#450462 http://counter.li.org.
