I did ls -l and get the following results:
hd0: size 976729088 KiB (USB)
hd1: size 976762584 KiB (internal)
Both have 1TB so this seems to be okay, right?
Which tests can I do further?
Which fdisk is best to use? Normally I prefer Gparted.
Any idea?
Best regards,
Peter Littmann
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 18. Juli 2019 um 14:42 Uhr
> Von: "Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko" <address@hidden>
> An: "Peter Littmann" <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 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 <address@hidden> 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?