[SLE] SUSE 9.0 Grub message Geom Error after installation/upgrade of basic system(SOLVED)

From: Richard (ratcheson_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 10/30/03

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Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 12:27:59 -0600

    For anyone who has a Compaq POS Presario 1260 and is trying to upgrade or
    install SUSE 9.0, you might get the error message in the subject above.
    There is some rather cryptic language in the Admin Guide as well as on the
    net in various places but nothing that simply tells you that the problem may
    be how your BIOS plays with Large drives ie LBA.

    After futzing with this problem for several hours, I found a reference in the
    SDB on Grub hanging when booting from SCSI harddrive. Even though mine is
    IDE the article indicated the problem could be the way the BIOS tells Grub
    about the LBA addressing. So I checked what the Compaq bios sets for LBA. It
    gives you two choices, Other or Dos.

    Of course this selection had been OTHER since SuSE 7.0 and worked fine til
    now! The cure was to go into the BIOS and change the selection for large
    drives from OTHER to DOS. Now if they have fixed the DMA wont enable
    problem . . . .

    Hopefully this message may save someone else lots of frustration and allow you
    to upgrade your machine as I wanted to do.

    Richard 

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