Out of Space

[Nils Kassube]

Oliver Grawert wrote:
> Am Montag, den 08.08.2016, 12:16 -0400 schrieb Gene Heskett:
> > But it still refuses to recognize a prepared disk, and you are
> > still 
> > forced to rewrite the parttition table, and may wind up with /boot
> > being 
> > 850 gigs into the terabyte disk, and out of reach of the machines
> > bios 
> > to reboot to at the end of the install.
> 
> wasnt that an issue with the BIOS.. it has been a while that i had to
> use non UEFI BIOSes but iirc you could switch the HDD between CHS and
> LBA mode since CHS is the summary of an equation of cylinders heads
> and sectors, there is a limit which the last visible part of the disk
> can be ... LBA (logical block addressing) will just see all of the
> disk and just count blocks from the start to the end ...
> 
> so check your BIOS settings for the HDD, perhaps it is that ...

I still don't understand how it could be relevant if GRUB runs from the 
very first track of the disk. As I understand it, GRUB reads the file 
system using its own code, not the BIOS. It could only be a problem if 
GRUB is not installed to the MBR but to a partition. I'm not sure if 
ubiquity would warn about this situation but I do remember that I have 
seen a warning when using grub-install - and it would only proceed with 
an extra force option.


Nils