[ltp] GRUB Geom Error

[Sebastian Schäfer]

Aaron Mulder <ammulder@alumni.princeton.edu> schrieb am Fri, 4 Jun 2004
17:50:21 -0400 (EDT):

> On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Sebastian Sch?fer wrote:
> > AFAIK it should be possible to boot a kernel after the 1024'th
> > cylinder with recent versions of LILO. I think this was made
> > possible at the same time as some early version of 2.4 was released.
> > But as I use GRUB I'm not so sure about that. GRUB supports doing
> > that for sure (I depend on it myself)
> 
> 	I thought the same myself but someone here at the office had a
> problem with SuSE 9.0 and 1024 cylinders (with Grub).  Perhaps the
> hardware or BIOS also has some bearing on it?

The BIOS has to support LBA addressing, which most modern BIOSes do. The
interesting question is: what is modern?

My board with a BIOS dated to 2000 does support it. Unfortunately I do
not have any infos on other boards or ThinkPads.

Sebastian
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