Goran Koruga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Yes it does - I think I know where the problem is. I already had problems
> when I hosed my partition table by creating new partitions with Linux's
> fdisk because the geometry is incorrect (or rather different than the
> one used when creating the very first partition).
> I noticed that grub 0.5.94 has a 'geometry' command and I will try to
> play with it. I hope I will get it working.
> I think all of this is my fault because I didn't turn off the BIOS on my
> SCSI controller (I needed it a year ago when I still used DOS).
Uhh, how could GRUB's notion of the geometry of a hard disk screw things
up? The standard hard disk BIOS calls are very reliable.
It also never checks the partition table's geometry numbers, it just uses
linear block addressing.
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