Re: [SLE] Grub and BIOS limitations

On 06/09/18 00:10 (GMT-0400) Paul Abrahams apparently typed:

On Monday 18 September 2006 12:02 am, Felix Miata wrote:

The >128G HD size makes this sound like a geometry mismatch problem,
even as new as the motherboard and BIOS are. Because it used to work, I
suspect no one's going to figure out how it got broken, but I'll bet
starting from scratch with a disk wipe and putting a /boot or / and Grub
on the first cylinder would fix it permanently.

I'm reluctantly reaching the conclusion that I have to start the installation
all over again, possibly even the Windows part. But I just might be able to
get away with rearranging the Linux partitions to put the boot partition
ahead of the root partition, since the boot partition is the one that grub
needs to work with.

That might work, but the reason I suggested putting /boot on cylinder 1
(start of disk) is to ensure that its partition begins before LBA sector
1,032,192 (1024*16*63).
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