[SLE] Grub and BIOS limitations

I think the weird grub behavior I've encountered really is related to BIOS
limitations. Following the instructions in the grub manual, I built a boot
diskette and booted from it, getting a grub prompt. I then issued the
following commands, with these responses:

root (hd0,7)
Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS

root (hd0,6)
Filesystem type is Reiserfs, partition type is 0x83

root (hd0,7)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type is 0x83

I then issued the root (hd0,7) command repeatedly and about half the time I
got the Error 18 and about half the time I got the filesystem type.

As I mentioned earlier, my hard drive is a 200GB model and my motherboard is a
Biostar P4M800-M7A, with an Award Bios v6.00PG. I'm now trying to update the
BIOS, but I still don't know where to get information about the capacity of
the current BIOS. I cannot find it anywhere in the BIOS configuration
utility.

My thanks to everyone who's helped analyze this problem.

Paul



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