From: Donald J Bindner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Change from 0.5.93.1 to 0.5.95
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 13:25:14 -0500
> Now the behavior. I believe it might have been a problem
> installing the stage1 and stage2 because I just switched my BIOS
> settings back to their original state and it still works.
Good. Anyway, it is better to set the mode to LBA.
> The only time I get the error message is when I do
> root (hd2,^I
> The tab completion gives me the error. However root (hd2,0)
> works fine I can choose a kernel and boot, etc.
This error occurs, when GRUB can't access the entire space of your
disk. But this doesn't mean that GRUB can't access your disk at
all. In LBA mode, this shouldn't happen.
> And I have switched back to the LBA mode in the BIOS. It
> autodetects and sets
> 1027 cylinder
> 255 heads
> 63 sectors
> This is only 8gig but it works fine.
In LBA mode, CHS isn't important, rather it should be
ignored. Instead, see "the number of sectors".
Okuji
