@Ian Brunlett: THINKING ABOUT HARD DISKS: The waste of sectors isn’t that much. It‘s at most 63 sectors, since the usable area on a DOS-like partitioned disk (there are other formats with less restrictions) starts from CHS 0/1/1. By the way: sector 0 does not exist in the CHS counting scheme. Unlike cylinders and heads sectors count off from 1. @Andy: The error message says, that GRUB stage 1 tried to find out the geometry of a hard disk, using a BIOS call INT 0x13, function 8, but somehow this call did not succeed (the disk was not available [is there an entry in the BIOS setup for it?], hardware problems...). I’ve got a diagnosis stage 1 that prints out the BIOS error code, but to use it you have to know how to install and restore a master boot record safely.
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