----- Forwarded message from Glenn Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- > Date: 29 Dec 2002 20:16:45 -0500 > From: Glenn Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Jason Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Bug-grub] Hitting cylinder limit with GRUB > > Jason, > > On Sun, 2002-12-29 at 20:03, Jason Thomas wrote: > > what does your menu.lst file look like? (or grub.conf) > > Here is my menu.lst: > > default=0 > timeout=15 > splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz > title Slackware Linux (2.4.18) > root (hd0,0) > kernel /boot/vmlinuz ro root=/dev/hda1 vga=771 > > title Windows 98 > map (hd0,0) (hd0,2) > map (hd0,2) (hd0,0) > rootnoverify (hd0,2) > chainloader +1 > > title FreeBSD > root (hd0,3,a) > kernel /boot/loader > > > was windows on the whole drive initially, or did you install it into > > hda3 after repartitioning the drive? > > I haven't installed win yet ... hda3 used to a Linux partition set aside > for Linux From Scratch. Haven't been able to access hda3 or hda4 with > GRUB, yet. Only Linux boots: the other choices give a 'beyond cylinder > limit' error. > > I had assumed since LILO was letting me boot FreeBSD from way up on the > disk that the BIOS was 'okay' for this. > > Thanks for the response! :) > > Glenn > > >
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