Re: [tlug] grub trouble

[Sigurd Urdahl <sigurdur@example.com>]

Michal Hajek wrote:
> Hello, 
>
> * Arwyn Hainsworth (arwynh@example.com) [070329 13:38]:
>   
> > As the error message indicated, some BIOSs don't like booting from
> > large drives.
> >     
>
> well, this is what I do not understand. Why the very same BIOS likes
> booting the older kernel from the very same drive and partition, while
> does *not* like to boot the new kernel?
>   

because they might very well reside on different parts of the disk. The 
old kernel might be within the first 1023 blocks, while the new one 
could be somewhere above that.
> Does it suggest that either BIOS upgrade or repartitioning are
> inevitable? (i.e. no hope for simply solving that by waiting for another
> kernel upgrade sometime in the future?)
>
>   
If your BIOS allows you to I believe you could redefine the disk 
geometry to have less cylinders. From the top of my head I don't 
remember how you best could do that, but if you're lucky it's an option 
in your bios for changing the geometry.

Another way of doing it is getting the new kernel moved to a location 
earlier on the disk, but that is probably not a trivial operation..

kind regards,

-sig

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