Re: Hitting cylinder limit with GRUB

[Christoph Plattner]

Hello,

a general question !

Is Windows 98 able to boot from such a high cylinder number ?

Let's say, GRUB is dealing this correct and boots the Windows/DOS
boot block from drive /dev/hda3. Then thins Win/Dos boot code
includes a loader code to boot futher parts of windows. Is it
possible to install Win98 above the 8GB without any problems
(independent of the initial boot loader (in our case GRUB)) ?

Good new year 2003 !

Christoph


Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> At 29 Dec 2002 18:28:32 -0500,
> Glenn Becker wrote:
>
> > Linux boots fine now from GRUB, I have the 'menu.lst' file in the right
> > place, but GRUB seems unable to deal with anything above the 'cylinder
> > limit' (it's not specifying but I assume the 1024 cylinder limit). I've
> > been booting things from above there for over a year using LILO. I tried
> > re-installing GRUB using grub-install --force-lba. Same result.
>
>
> What does the command "geometry" say? Please run the command with your
> drive specified (i.e. "geometry (hd0)") in the native environment (not
> the grub shell)? Maybe you need to have a GRUB boot floppy to test it.
>
> Also, recheck your BIOS setting. If your BIOS really supports LBA, it
> should have a setting about your drive.
>
> Okuji
>
>
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