grub, large drives, and old bios

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 03:03:46AM -0800, Adam Lydick wrote:

> [If this would be better to file in bugzilla, please let me know which
> package to file against. Thanks!]
> 
> One of my workstations has a large drive (200GB) and an older bios that
> doesn't seem to support GRUB. (I've only gotten it to work with LILO,
> previously) Thus, the standard warty install fails to boot.
> 
> The manufacturer (Sony) does not provide any updates, so moving to a
> newer BIOS version doesn't seem to be an option.

Did you try changing the geometry settings for the disk in the BIOS ("Auto"
or "LBA" are good options to try); that often fixes this kind of problem
(though you didn't mention which GRUB error you saw).

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 - mdz