on 8/20/2007 12:55 PM, 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... You are wasting your breath, err... electrons, here Les. Have been for days. But you are right about this, as have been several others. I can't wait for the multi-threads when the new computer arrives. ;-) -- David
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