On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 6:17 PM Peter Littmann <[email protected]> wrote: > > You mean doing "ls -l" in a booted Linux? > Accessing the disk from within Linux is not the problem. > I installed Linux(Ubuntu/Manjaro/Arch) some times to this disk and all wents > good. But at boot time grub2 is not be able to detect/connect to the > installed system. > > Grub2 itself does not provide "ls -l", right? It does > > Your guess goes in the direction of a problem with 48Bit-LBA it seems, but > this was included in the BIOSes around the year 2002, I think? For internal, yes. For USB the problem persisted for many more years > This AMI BIOS is from the year 2010(Build-date). > > In case of (hd0,msdos1)(Ubuntu) it helped to install it in the first > partition. > But the rest of the HDD should be adressable by the BIOS and Grub2, too, I > expect. > > Booting by SuperGrub2Disk 2.04rc1 even does not show (hd0,msdos5). > > Only when I load the additional drivers(experimental) I can show > (usb5a,msdos5) and list its contents. > But I can not boot it, but this may be a other problem cause at first it > detects a device hd111 and then can not find it. > > Regards > > Peter Littmann > > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 18. Juli 2019 um 14:42 Uhr > Von: "Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko" <[email protected]> > An: "Peter Littmann" <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Betreff: Re: grub does not detect partition 4 and 5 on new USB-WD My Passport > 1TB > try "ls -l" to see how much of disk BIOS sees. My guess is that it > cuts it at 128GiB. I'd recommend putting everything need for boot at > the beginning of the disk > > On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 6:32 PM Peter Littmann <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have a old BIOS (build date 04/01/2010) and connected a new USB-WD > > Passport 1TB harddisk. > > Grub 2.02 does only detect: (hd0,msdos1), (hd0,msdos2) and (hd0,msdos3) > > But not (hd0,msdos4) (Extended) and (hd0,msdos5) (ext4 with > > Arch-Installation). > > The addressing should be handled by 48Bit-LBA. > > > > What can be the reason and how to solve this? >
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